There’s an astonishing editorial in the Washington Post today about a looming marriage crisis – its framing, not mine – in which it highlights an apparent problem: increasing numbers of single women don’t want to marry whiny fascist man-babies who get their life advice from misogynists such as Andrew Tate. And rather than come to the obvious conclusion, which is that said men should stop being whiny fascist man-babies who get their life advice from misogynists such as Andrew Tate, the editorial says:

This mismatch means that someone will need to compromise.

That someone does not, you’ll be amazed to discover, mean the men.

The article is quite rightly being destroyed in its own comments section, but it’s yet another sign of a problem that newspapers don’t like to cover: the homogeneity of newsrooms and their reliance on content written by external sources with agendas, in this case a blog by the right-wing American Enterprise Institute. It’s yet another attempt to paint right-wing men as victims of a censorious society rather than victims of their own bad behaviour and poor choices, incel rhetoric made palatable by the columnist class.