The conversation about men and their capacity to care about children has exploded as of late, and as I've been reporting, it's all thanks to a game called PRAGMATA.
This game, about a man and a little android girl, set off a firestorm of anti-male takes that come straight from the books of radical feminism, but has both men and women rising to defend the innate desire of men to be fathers and protectors. It's been a beautiful thing to watch.
Read: Feminists Fundamentally Misunderstand Men and PRAGMATA Is Proving It
I want to highlight one response in particular, and it comes from Mary Morgan, a woman who appears on Tim Pool's podcast regularly.
Taking to X, she left this response to men's desire to play this game, and it could qualify as one of the most ridiculous posts on the platform I've ever seen:
lots of strange reactions to this game.
let’s clear some things up: childless men do not have paternal instincts the way that childless women have maternal instincts (we observe this even in the way little girls play vs. little boys).
men first experience paternal instincts once they have their own children - and typically, those paternal instincts are only ever felt for their own children, and no one else’s. men are not nurturers. men don’t gush over cute kids in public.
men don’t have baby fever. if a man wants to possess a child for any reason other than it being a product of his own lineage, he is likely a predator. and you’d be taking the feminist/radical gender abolitionist position to protest any of the above points.
this should explain why a “dad simulator” game marketed to mostly childless men gives people the creeps.
lots of strange reactions to this game. let’s clear some things up:
— mary morgan (@maryarchived) April 20, 2026
childless men do not have paternal instincts the way that childless women have maternal instincts (we observe this even in the way little girls play vs. little boys).
men first experience paternal instincts… https://t.co/1PCQgzbqOp
To sum up her views on the matter, men don't have a nurturing instinct, and thus any interest a man has in any child other than his own can be nothing but nefarious.
If you're an X user, I advise you to click on the post and check it out yourself, because it was community-noted so hard that the rest of the internet felt it. The links provided in the community actually do go into the science that contradicts Morgan's claim pretty thoroughly, pointing out that men do actually experience nurturing and protective behaviors around non-biological children.
But I don't need a study to prove it to you. I can tell you a story that takes place around WW2.
There was once a man named Nicholas Winton. He was a 29-year-old stockbroker from Britain with no children. In 1938, Winton took a trip to Prague on the advice of a friend. Around that time, Nazi Germany had just annexed the Sudetenland thanks to the Munich Agreement, and that meant a lot of Jewish refugees from that area had fled to Czechoslovakia.
Winton was horrified by the situation of the refugees, but particularly that of the Jewish children.
So, Winton set up a base of operations in his hotel room, and for three weeks, he organized transports for children to bring them into Britain. Once back in Britain, he organized many of these children to find foster homes.
The Nazis would soon invade and take over Prague, but Winton didn't stop his work. From the U.K., he continued to organize trains to bring children to the safety of Britain, literally under the noses of the Nazis.
All told, he would extract 669 children, and would've gotten more had the Nazis not invaded Poland while trying to get the ninth train out.
In 1988, Sir Nicholas Winton would be honored on the BBC program "That's Life," where he would be unknowingly seated in the front row, with many of the children he saved sitting next to and behind him. It's one of the more moving moments in television history.
He's hardly the first, nor the last. Men stepping in to protect and save children that aren't their own is a common thread throughout history. Winton is one of the prime examples of how a man will go above and beyond to care for them.
It's sad to see how modern society has effectively erased the caring nature of men towards children from the consciousness of the public despite constant reminders of it.
