When Harry became Sally
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[This is a reply to earlier posts at Tasty Tacos.]
Whether fashion, weight, and body image are “women’s issues” is, I think, an open question. Men themselves are not “above them.” Another societal change since WHMS is the degree to which men obsess (more openly) about such things. That a man now gets pedicures, Pilates, and pectoral implants is no longer surprising; indeed, these topics are almost as likely to be discussed among men at the office water cooler as the latest sports contest. The male ego, in the absence of much of a superego, has bifurcated in the social acceptability of both traditionally feminine concerns and neochauvinistic ones (the widely consumed but puerile Maxim magazine, for example, doesn’t have the guts to consider itself pornography).
America’s women, I venture, would not be so tortured by the aforementioned “women’s issues” if America’s men did not drive them to it and then hunt for a parking space for themselves. 
