Could anyone have predicted this countercultural love letter to that most casually reviled demographic, the straight white man? Or that it would be written by one of our most popular feminist authors?
The titular question, which sounds like a joke, was one Moran noticed being asked of her by the mothers of sons, in audience Q&As to promote her previous books How to Be a Woman and More Than a Woman. After years of dismissal, she took the bait, for her own subtly subversive reasons. “No man had got around to writing a book like this, and so, as usual, muggins here – a middle aged woman – had to crack on and sort it all out.”
