[barry-cotter]

Of course. No one defies gender roles in the modern West. There are no large, media/ruling class celebrated subcultures of people who do not follow gender roles. All conform.

To be less tongue in cheek, no it’s not true. Life is harder if you’re weird but plenty of people are abnormal to the level of dysfunction and severe negative consequences and they get by. Plenty of others conform to gender roles and have a shit time anyway.

It’s a lot easier to make it as a member of the journalist class if you say what the author did about the patriarchy, of course.