The extraordinary rage of (far) below-average men in a post-patriarchal age

There are some women who are better than you, deal with it

Authors Note: If you are a man, but not a far below-average man who is humiliated by the idea of a random woman being better than you at something, or superior to you, I ask sweetly from behind my fan to not start bellowing and beating your chest in my comment section about how offended you are.

“No one would say that Sarah Everard’s killing was a terrorist act. We don’t conceptualise it as such. It was an isolated act of violence, perpetrated by one man against an unlucky woman. But. But. My mother stopped running after dark.” — Guilia, NIA

I don’t know a single woman who would be ashamed to find out that a random man they were at school with was now earning more than her. That would feel embarrassed to discover a man was being promoted faster than her. That would feel humiliated to have a male boss, defer to a male expert, or be seen by a male doctor, or taught be a male lecturer. Not because women believe all men are more competent than them, far from it, but because very few women believe that they have a natural superiority over all men, and that a man being smarter than them is a huge affront to their entire sense of self worth. We talk about ‘emasculating’ men by…