Article was pretty spot on imo, especially this line, which needs to be considered seriously:
What if there is no possible reconciliation between the bright clean ideals of gender equality and the mechanisms of human desire?
One reason this has been a remarkable series of events to watch from a distance is because it involves an element of social life that has not, and probably cannot be, spoken about with complete transparency to a mainstream audience.
The fact of the matter is that men and women differ from each other most significantly in what is fundamentally their sexuality - however, because (generally) they desire each other, and because sexuality does not operate via reason, conversations between men and women about sexuality do not start from a place of mutual agreement. It could even be the case that mutual, explicit agreement about sexuality on a theoretical level is antithetical to having a heightened sexual experience*, which is why spontaneous sex > scheduled sex.
*don't confuse "mutual theoretical agreement" with consent. I'm talking about John Nash at the bar, not rape.
The other challenge to transparent sexual conversation is intrasexual. The mating game is competitive within each sex, which makes us averse to our sexual strategies becoming public. Women don't want to be slutty and men don't want to be creepy, but sexual adventurousness makes a bit of each inevitable. The reason we recoil so strongly against examples of these externally is because internally we know how close we've come to being labelled the same. Similarly, we're drawn to the spectacle of guys like Tucker Max and Dan Bilzerian who (seem to) succeed sexually while deliberately opposing the modern, rationalist conception of how sexual dynamics are supposed to operate.
Fitting sex into an increasingly rational society is going to be difficult, I think. Compartmentalizing it (ie. stripping it from the workplace) is probably a good idea though, which makes the majority of the celebrity examples uncontroversial imo.
TL;DR: it's amusing that the most widely discussed public conversation right now is the one no one really wants to have.