Opinion | The crisis in masculinity is real, but it’s not what Hawley thinks

But I’d like to go a step further than the review seemed willing to do explicitly: What really is the basis of any ideal of masculine behavior, whether it is as absurd on the surface or not? Mr. Hawley’s caricature of a caricature only throws into relief that masculine ideals are no more than a constant performance. The current crisis in masculinity is real, but it is really a conflict between a feeling of obligation to conform to a set of gendered expectations and the fact that those standards of behavior are entirely made-up.

Logan Delavan-Hoover, Ashton