Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Toward a taxonomy of men online

It is an indisputable fact that, online, there are Dads and there are Sons. Lesser known, however, is that there also exist two additional categories — Uncles and Nephews — that together explain the temperament of any man. These four categories are axes that can be used to plot the matrix that categorizes the energies of most male-identified persons online. They are, basically, alignments. Think of this as astrology, but specifically for men.

Let’s start with the basics. Sons are the product of fathers (not to be confused with Dads, which we’ll get to in a moment); they’re generally Large and Adult. As The New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino put it in her excellent description of Sons online:

The large-adult-son meme takes wing from the...

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