Hey Maureen, really?
My NYT column “Man, I need a good cuddle” was actually an attempt to reach across the gender divide and say us guys are really a lot more sensitive than we are sometimes given credit. And that the growing trend of both men and women living alone isn’t all its cracked up to be IMO:
If more people are living alone, in the United States and around the world, I would argue that our humanity is being chipped away by the lack of cuddle. People can do what they want, of course. And I don’t doubt that I am a particularly needy and sometimes neurotic man of a certain ilk. So maybe the cuddle is more important to me than it is to some independent-minded woman.
I certainly am not above parody. I write plenty myself, I am sure not always without missing the mark on occasion. But for a woman “journalist” to put together this little love letter in essence asking me to grow a pair for saying how much I love holding my wife and kids is the worst form of man-bashing sexism.
Or maybe I’m being too sensitive…
If anybody wants to converse with Ms. O’Connor on cuddling, manhood, and Bin Laden (see below) she’s at maureen@gawker.com.
Gotta make dinner and tuck the kids in so I can go cuddle my wife (what a pussy).
