I think this is true ONLY in formal writing, which this document clearly intends to be despite it’s complete inanity. Asterisks are used in computer code for multiplication and shorthand messages/emails all the time. Not many scientists/engineers/mathematicians out there that can’t write at least an excel formula

Narrator: it wasn’t

This is just the same democrat message that alienates men in the first place. It’s scolding but also not acknowledging that men (and white men) arent doing well right now. I think this message is counter productive.