What’s the lesson here? Women should stay away from liberal men.
This journalist is merely one of the million monkeys banging type-writers in pursuit literary immortality that make up the pool from which the editors pull their stories.
You would think those editors would know to throw the young ones back in.
As to the content: he is right. Masculinity can be toxic if it is not restrained by cultural strictures— like chivalry. These constraints are the very thing they despised most, and which they destroyed first.
The problem for them is that the most egregious violators come from their own ranks. They cannot accept any blame or acknowledge that removing a keystone from the edifice brought this about. They cannot question their own precepts and the resulting demoralization now evident—especially within their own side.
What to do then? Generalize. Blame it on some dark universal shadow-force. Make everybody guilty—and simultaneously innocent.