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David Brooks in The Atlantic Monthly on the male chauvinist revival. The article is largely about progressives' difficulty reacting to it all, but I'll just quote the description of Maxim:

Women in the magazine's pages are reduced almost exclusively to cleavage. Men exist solely at the crossroads where babes in lingerie meet power tools and serial-killer computer games. The articles--which tend to fall into the "How to Score at Funerals" genre--are short lessons in ways to become even more shallow than you already are.