Biology has afforded men certain existential comforts. We are obsessed with women’s reproductive clocks, the idea that if they get married and have children when they’re still young they’ll be relegated to Cat Lady status forever. And in truth, we do have less time. We do have less hypothetical freedom. Men can enter into their 40s, 50s and onward and decide they’re finally ready to settle down. They can probably even still have kids into their 60s, 70s and 80s, if they want. Whatever life they’ve been living can be traded for the more traditional one they’ve been holding out on all along — they’re just waiting for the right moment to emerge. But for many of them, it won’t.
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