This one hits harder this year. For anyone who’s served, loved someone who did, or just cares about what that costs— This is "Homecoming," from my forthcoming short story collection Open Windows. Happy Veteran’s Day.

12/ Men are the ones who build, maintain, and defend the walled garden that children, the vulnerable, and the broken live within. We don’t need activists. We need mentors—mentors who produce more strong, good, and useful men. I suggest starting with @NickJFreitas.

11/ Our window is narrow. So the men who rise to lead cannot steer young men toward cartoonish masculinity, monetized grievance, or a new victim class that needs empathy quotas and government programs. We need MEN.

10/ We don’t have a generation to get this right. We don’t have a century to run another cultural experiment that ends in population collapse, strategic weakness, or a revenge ethic between the sexes.

9/ In a functioning society—with healthy mating dynamics, stable marriages, and an economy that bolts people into cultural responsibility—there’s room for all three types. They’ve always existed. But we don’t have the luxury of the slow burn we had during the rise of feminism.

8/ The final Masculinist type is the most pernicious: the CARETAKERS. These men are temperamentally agreeable—tilted toward a feminine approach to solving the problem of men. They default to nurturing, soothing, “hearing men out,” and treating them like a wounded population that

7/ Validation feels good. It feels good to hear someone explain why you’re pissed off, unsuccessful, or treated unfairly. But that feeling doesn’t help you do anything. The CAREERISTS harvest the bitterness, frustration, and resentment of disaffected men and convert it into

6/ The second type is the CAREERISTS. These guys monetize the plight of modern men without solving anything. They complain about feminized culture, skewed divorce laws, and the ways the deck is stacked against men—but they rarely offer solutions. And that’s by design.

5/ CARICATURES are genuinely masculine men, but usually unrefined. They hit the highlights: tough, disagreeable, formidable. But they often read like a teenage boy’s idea of what a tough man is. Of the three Masculinist types, they’re the least destructive.

4/ Masculinists, as far as I can tell, fall into three subtypes. Conveniently, they all start with C. The first are the CARICATURES.

3/ One such overcorrection is happening right now. To be clear: modern feminism—especially the man-hating variants—has been catastrophic for the West. I’d argue it’s produced more dysfunction than progress. But in the absence of strong, competent men—and a culture that values

2/ Humans are dynamic creatures. We adapt by default. You could argue this ability is what most defines our species. But at scale, this same trait makes cultures correct and then overcorrect—like a drunk driver sloppily pulling on a steering wheel.

1/ I’m about as pro-man as it gets. However, it’s a very bad idea to turn men into an activism category—or something like a protected class with recognition days and support ribbons. Here’s why: 🧵

If I’m being honest…. Kind of terrifying https://t.co/gBL5gr9hCH

@Babygravy9 On repeat.

Last night, I had a dream that @StephenKing stole my children… but not until AFTER he’d given them giant boiled eggs as a gift.

You will never convince me that this acceptable behavior for a grown man. I don’t care how much money he is making. https://t.co/VojXeArx6V

Overheard from the other room. Wife: “Boys! What do you want for breakfast?” Youngest: “Dragon’s blood!” And there you have it. The kids are going to be just fine.

For more of my work or to keep up-to-date with when the book will drop, go here: 👇 https://t.co/8G3o5OAVJN

You can tell a lot about a man by how he treats creatures that are smaller than him. I had an OIC (that’s officer-in-charge for you non-military types) who was a rip-roaring drunk on deployment. One day, we were walking back from the only bar on a very remote island... 🧵