“Are straight men okay?” This is the question raised in stories from the likes of The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times (and, yes, this very magazine ) about how dissatisfied women are with dating right now. They want to settle down, but they just can’t find a suitable partner. In a recent essay for The New York Times Magazine, Jean Garnett writes about heterofatalism, the resigned, exhausted attitude straight women have adopted in response to what she describes as an “irreproachable male helplessness.” “I have been bruised by the ambivalence of men, how they can first want me and then become confused about what they want,” she writes. Men, these stories seem to suggest, are either red-pilled psychopaths or hapless oafs who are so emotionally unintelligent they c

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