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Is Remote Work Remaking Manhood?

Yes It Is, And That Is Not A Good Thing

David Saint Vincent
7 min readJan 21, 2025
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Those sounding the alarm that manhood as we have known it for many generations is under attack are not wrong. They are certainly misguided, but not wrong. The main culprit is not people including pronouns in their own signature lines, nor is it individuals demanding the respect of self-definition. The biggest culprit I have identified has flown under the radar for years and that culprit is remote work.

Before I lay out the case that remote work is bad for traditional manhood, I need to make my political position clear: I reflexively distrust any company that is a part of the movement to force remote workers back to the office. Whatever reasons they offer publicly, and I’ve heard them all, are bullshit. They really just want to be able to oversee their workers in the old-school, plantation-style of management; and by extension impose maximum control and burden on them.

The shifting power dynamic in favor of workers that occurred briefly during and immediately following the pandemic did not sit well with those who are accustomed to holding all the cards and calling all the shots.

As a consequence, the managerial class is desperate to reassert its power over the production class in every…

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David Saint Vincent
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