Fathers

With thanks to Susan Faludi

I read Susan Faludi’s Stiffed when it first came out. Bought it in hardcover. I’d read the excerpt in the New Yorker about male porn stars, and needed to read the rest. So I was thrilled to see her op-ed in the New York Times today.

Stiffed was a revelation, a Rosetta Stone that helped me decode the men in my life, especially my father, who was always co…