It is not very fashionable to be a man these days, especially a white one. After the exposure of Harvey Weinstein’s record of alleged sexual assault and harassment, The New York Times ran a piece entitled “The unexamined brutality of the male libido” by the Canadian writer Stephen Marche.

“The masculine libido and its accompanying forces and pathologies drive so much of culture and politics and the economy,” wrote Marche, adding that “the point of Freud was not that boys will be boys. Rather the opposite . . . If you let boys be boys, they will murder their fathers and sleep with their mothers.” Right.

“Masculinity, not ideology, drives extremist groups,” was another recent headline that caught my eye, this time in The Washington