[lbo-talk] the decline of men

Alan Rudy alan.rudy at gmail.com
Thu Apr 14 10:46:31 PDT 2011


On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> On Apr 13, 2011, at 11:34 PM, Alan Rudy wrote:
> > But in the end what I was saying was that neoconservatism and
> neoliberalism
> > have conspired to reinscribe a "traditional" masculinity
>
> In her book, A Company of One, Carrie Lane reports that unemployed tech
> workers in Dallas had no problem about being dependent on their wives for
> support, and were actually proud to be such evolved feminists.
>
> Interview: http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S110409
>
> I would never argue that there is not unevenness to this, nor would I argue
that neocons and neolibs haven't operated in parallel with other social trajectories and patternings, but if you read Andrew Ross' No Collar (uh-oh, have I blasphemed by bringing him up?!) or have lived in the Bay Area, you also know that tech workers aren't always representative of the US populace as a whole, no?



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