Noted fan of musicals Joe Scarborough hosts a morning talk show on MSNBC that played a huge role in facilitating and promoting the rise of Donald Trump. If you've ever felt like our current political climate suffers from its addiction to pro wrestling-like turns instead of thoughtful, nuanced discussion, then Joe "I'd like to go on Colbert so I can publicly announce that I'm a Democrat now" Scarborough probably makes your blood boil. (I get it. He drives me crazy too. But in the spirit of nuanced discussion, let's examine his most recent annoying statement with a generous eye.)

This morning, Joe (heh) tweeted a reader letter from The American Conservative about the effects that isolation and porn are having on young men.

Now Joe's statement is not inherently incorrect. I do think it's fair to say that the misogyny that permeates many online spaces does a number on the minds of young men and hurts young women in the process. Look no further than the Gamergate situation or the toxicity of many corners of Reddit, to see that isolated male-dominated online spaces can be scary things. I would say that calling this "smartphone culture" is hilariously dumb and reductive to the point of nonsensical, but there's a real point there.

The first problem arises when you actually click on the link. The reader email is depressing but not because "smartphone culture" has done a number on its sender. No, the reader is a 23-year-old devout Christian man who rails against people calling themselves "introverts" and judges his fellow young Christian men for watching Internet porn.