Originally Posted by Guest

“The Year of the Sociopathic Baby-Men”: Without a doubt, 2017 is shaping up to be a year showcasing the worst specimens of the male species ever produced in the American Experiment.

From Donald Trump to Bill Cosby to Richard Spencer to Stephen Paddock and now, Harvey Weinstein, the American public has grown accustomed this year to the spectacle of grown men, many of them rich and powerful, behaving in foul ways that can only be termed pathological. For some of them, such as Paddock, the origins of their defective psychologies remain murky, their motives opaque. For others, like the neo-Nazi Spencer or the race-baiting GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore (the newest entrant to the year’s sociopathic sweepstakes) racism is the primary trigger. For still others, like Trump, Cosby and Weinstein, their behavior today is the natural culmination of decades of leveraging their wealth and power to gain whatever they wanted, most tellingly manifesting itself in the blatant abuse and sexual harassment of women who are reduced to collateral damage in their wake.

Heather Havrilesky, writing for New York Magazine, has a name for this phenomenon we’re witnessing: “The Year of the Sociopathic Baby-Men”.