Please could I ask the readers of this journal to do something for science and watch CBS this monday night (December 23rd) from 8:00 to 10:00.

This means you’ll be watching The King of Queens, Yes, Dear, Everyone Loves Raymond, and Still Standing. Hey, it’s for science.

I believe these four programs are helping to change the way we think about guyness. The gender duet continues. Feminism, in some forms, may be moribund. But it has set in train a male reaction that continues and intensifies.

Your assignment: observe what notion of maleness you see played out on Monday night. My comments, and, I hope, yours, Tuesday.