White Men Are Not in Decline

Sarah Jane Glynn responds to an opinion piece in The New York Times about the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

The “End of Men” is a myth. A catchy, much ballyhooed myth, but a myth nonetheless. I am by no means the first person to say this, and I certainly will not be the last. Christy Wampole’s recent opinion piece in the New York Times about the Newtown shooting is so wildly, offensively, dangerously wrong that I cannot help lend my voice to the response.

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