A press release announcing the American Psychological Association’s new Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men starts off by apologizing for talking about men at all. “This may seem unnecessary. For decades, psychology focused on men (particularly white men), to the exclusion of all others.”

In fact, the opposite is true. Women have outnumbered men among mental health patients since the 19th century. (To say nothing of the prominence of Jean-Martin Charcot’s experiments on female “hysterics” in modern psychology courses.) If it hates talking about men so much, the APA should have stuck with its first instinct and said nothing at all, since the “guidelines” amount to a jargon-laden declaration of war against everyone with a Y chromosome.