Craving to Be Called In
You may be one of the six million viewers on YouTube who watched the Saturday Night Live skit about the “Man Park,” where the lonely boyfriends of successful Manhattan women are taken to make friends.
It’s funny because it captures something real: many men do struggle to make and maintain friendships. But it also gets something important wrong, as I discuss with Sam Pressler and Soren Duggan:
The men likely to be disconnected are not, for the most part, college-educated boyfriends and husbands of successful urban women. They are men and women without college degrees.
So why is this a gender…
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