Today, while sardonically referring to the nuance of September eleventh, James Taranto refers to the “guy talk” of which former National Organization for Women head Patricia Ireland spoke of derisively in the wake of the attacks. You know the type of lingo; “you’re either with us or you’re with the terrorists” and the like; black-and-white, straight-forwardese.
It occurs to me that the things and ways associated exclusively with men have become so maligned in the past generation or so that, to many women like Ireland—and many men, unfortunately--the phrase “guy talk” has a pejorative tinge to it. How did that happen?
