Silly Little Man Explains "Why Men Cheat"

Silly Little Man Explains “Why Men Cheat”

April’s Esquire (when the mail arrives, it arrives all at once!) has an anonymous essay called “Why Men Cheat.” Like all these sorts of things, it’s fundamentally “naughty” and “incoherent” and contradictory and sad. “Men don’t cheat because they can. Men cheat because they must, because they need to. This is the male struggle…. It’s what they are built for. It is a function of the mathematics of their reproductive function. It is the by-product of longer life spans, more-deadening careers, too much work. And it is the consequence of an instinctive refusal to give up one’s own need entirely for the flawed and antiquated apparatus of marriage.” HI, WOW, you don’t make any sense. Actually the whole rest of it is even worse than this. I’ll never understand why absolutely every woman is so desperate to “snare a man.”