David Brooks: The nuclear family was never going to last

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4. i grew up in the golden age of misogynist comedy. take my wife, please.

to the moon alice.

the kernel of truth is that men resent old women w power of any kind. the bigger the asshole, the bigger the beef. the bigger the gang he hang w, the bigger the beef will get.
grandmothers changed what we were. some guys have never gotten over it. but they are the natural counterweight to male violence.

disney didnt invent stories about crones. it's hard wired.

it's more about tribes than clan, tho, really. that was a big bump in human evolution. expanding the tribe. and it is just an evolutionary fact that tribes work for humans, and we can make a tribe based on anything.