I read your article in its entirety. I read the comments. I have to admit it has added another nail to the coffin of Medium, as my taste for the platform decays.

Is this journalism? Nothing research based.

Is this quack pseudo-psychiatry? Opinion based cathartic pronunciations.

Some of your personal opinions may carry water, but seriously, do yo speak for society at large? ( Even the Pope, the Dalai Lama and the interpretation of Lao Tsu would not have such lack of humility.) Are you inside the brain of every male, of every culture and heritage, of every economic scale, of every political and religious leaning?

To hopelessly misquote Macbeth, "Tis a tale based on mere opinion, full of sound and fury and signifying ... generalities." If I ever travel to Illinois I will remember that it is not the center of the male psyche.

Sorry, but I despair when reading this from an obviously talented writer.

Wait. I can't understand this because as a male I have no purpose in life. I can't believe I have wasted fifteen minutes of my aimless, directionless time on earth.