All the most harmful and self-harming aspects of masculinity are busily performed: the need to dominate others, the weaselly interest in hierarchy, the confusion between cruelty and strength, an impatience with nuance and the moronic idea that inflexibility is a virtue. We’re not talking about women trying to be men. We’re talking about women and men trying to be arseholes. Because that’s what they think you’re supposed to be like at work. There’s a lot of it about.
