The bigger man

Without having even seen Mad Men I know this is the reference.

In the five minutes between getting children up/fed and taking them to swim class, I checked my email and saw someone (the first, but not the last) alerting me to the existence of a great big whopping New York Times opinion section essay with the headline, “There’s Nothing Wrong With Wanting Men.” Alerting me, more specifically, to the fact that this May 31 ideas essay does not mention the May 19 book making much the same point:

I propose something new: hetero-optimism, in which one does not shy away from the ills (real and imagined) of heterosexuality but considers our own potential for navigating them, still believing that some hope for our romantic future exists.

“Something new”?