In my ongoing fascination with masculinity, i was reading something last night that pointed out how Men's Stuff so often uses war analogies (it was pick-up culture, and approaching women like military operations). And I was remembering all the war metaphors leaders were using during covid. And further, how much political speaking — because I guess politics is still unconsciously treated as man's stuff? — uses the language of war. And I think that it would be good if we tried to stop