The article is funny, not because she's funny but because she is so damn pretentious and up her own ass. The writing is like a cross between the main character in Sex and the City, and Contrapoints' annoying pontificating.

Privately, jokes aside, I am quite susceptible to penis — like, I worry that in some Hobbesian state of nature I might just automatically kneel to the prettiest one —

This is just funny tho, relatable I guess lol.

If the experts say my romantic letdowns have some larger social significance, I am not going to argue. The men I want are not wanting me badly enough, not communicating with me clearly enough, not devoting themselves to me: All this certainly seems calamitous enough to warrant an “ism.”

Like, are you serious???

I meet this type around sometimes: fluent in the language of polyamory, waving his respectful desire around like a plastic light saber: Pew pew. Why would you play with just one toy when you can take turns with all the toys? While at the same time vaguely subverting … something. Capitalism?

Lightsabers do not make a pew pew sound.... sigh.

He tends to signal, in various ways, his exemption from the tainted category of “men,” and it is perfectly understandable that he would wish to do so. It must be mildly embarrassing to be a straight man, and it is incumbent upon each of them to mitigate this embarrassment in a way that feels authentic to him.

The guys she dates either ghost her or beg off with lame excuses rather than "man up and [expletive] [sic] her"

chad homofuturism vs virgin herterofatalism

she should try dating that claude tinder guy.

Seeing the NYT header

Skimming the op-ed anyway

"you're doing a good job of signaling." - me, another cishet guy

I struggle to read articles in this genre, but I appreciate that they remind me it's often worse to feel lonely when you aren't alone.

He tends to signal, in various ways, his exemption from the tainted category of “men,” and it is perfectly understandable that he would wish to do so. It must be mildly embarrassing to be a straight man, and it is incumbent upon each of them to mitigate this embarrassment in a way that feels authentic to him.

I’m a bit torn on this, as yes straight men do be doing embarrassing things. On the other hand, no offense to OP although I think you were being a bit joking about it, a dude making a big thing out of displaying his “mitigation of the embarrassment of being a straight man” is a red flag. That’s the sort of behavior I’d expect from a lib that wants everyone to know he’s super feminist and supports women’s rights, but then that all becomes a rationalization for being an asshole in a relationship.