I am a humanist, Satish. That is why I am a feminist, an anti-racist, and an advocate for immigrants, the disabled, and other groups oppressed by the norms and assumptions underpinning our society.

That means taking women’s part most of the time, not because I care less about men, but because our culture favors men to a degree that makes life difficult for women. I’ll have a new article coming out tomorrow on feminism that should make my position clear.

I also think it’s vital to acknowledge that men are disadvantaged by the way they are typically raised. Too many get too little encouragement to grow up emotionally and too few healthy male role models to show them how adult men ought to live. My essays on men’s rationality and on the incels both discuss the impact of our parenting failures on men’s health as well as on their treatment of the women in their lives.

So yes, I’m very concerned about men’s issues and sympathetic to their (our) needs. But as long as men control society, it is women who will be my first concern.