History does not run in reverse, true,...

but it does sometimes rhyme. I agree that the "hegemonic masculinity of the present day...deserves neither loyalty nor respect." And its days are numbered -- if they're not already over. But what is going to replace it? You're right that the trans movement has been stunningly successful -- even its enemies (e.g., SCOTUSbaby?) acknowledge that and urge us to study their tactics. But LaudateAgno is also right when he notes that the movement provokes "visceral disgust and discrimination." The fog of war is descending and it"s very hard to see anything with any clarity; we can't even make out the battle lines at this point. But we know where the battle is already being fought: in the hearts and minds of boys and young men. Our society has pronounced them trash, expendable, tolerated only if effectively they become girls -- literally so in the case of those who "transition" but for the far greater numbers who won't go that far, rewarded only if they act like chipper little girls all competing for the teacher's approval. The rest of them? Well, they can drug themselves with oxycodone and/or sit in their basements jacking off to porn and playing video games, make idiots of themselves overdosing on stupid altright websites; a few of their number periodically emerging with guns in their hands to mow down some clueless bystanders. Yes, the trans folks have been successful in recruiting some to their cause -- the "momma's boys" whom SCOTUSbaby identifies. (I was one; he was another by his own confession.) They are now celebrated in the culture. But where the culture's mass media organs fail -- completely fail - is to reckon with that "visceral disgust and discrimination." It's just chalked up to bigotry, backwardness, fundamentalism or what have you. There's no analysis, no reckoning with the history, art, literature, religion that illuminates over and over again the perils of the male life journey, that messy process of second birth as a man. And so they're blind -- they don't see the ubiquitous rage -- they can't (example: the MSM consistently ignores the inconvenient fact that the ranks of the Proud Boys contain lots of Black and Brown young men as well as white.) Someone is going to do something with that rage -- mark my words -- convert it into political dynamite. Next time around, it's not going to be a stupid narcissist like Trump -- it's going to be someone who knows how to speak to them -- and what to do with the power they give him. Just consider the examples of Jordan Peterson and Bronze Age Pervert -- no one even knows who the latter is! And the former was just an obscure academic with the knack of stating the obvious in an era when stating the obvious gets you in trouble. We have a role to play in this -- dare I say a central role? -- if we can figure it out. We need minds like yours to do that. The four-decade old bromides on the NAMBLA FAQ page aren't going to cut it any more. SR