“Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?” — Henry Higgins

Those are the words librettist Alan Jay Lerner penned for the fictional professor Henry Higgins in the 1956 musical “My Fair Lady,” and honestly, it could have been the title of Helen Andrews’ much-discussed recent essay in Compact. She called it “The Great Feminization” but her screed is very much a hymn to men.

Andrews’ essay has received applause from the right, where caveman masculinity is making a comeback, but she has fallen into the trap of black-and-white thinking and subtracted from a reasonable understanding of relations between the sexes.

Andrews has discovered that men and women are different. A random woman may be taller than a random man, she notes, but on average, most men are taller than most women. I’m not entirely

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