How does Theroux prepare his readers for the turn the essay takes in paragraph 12 when he says, "There would be no point in saying any of this if it were not generationally accepted that to be a man is somehow--even now in feminist-influenced America--a privilege?" What does this statement reveal about Theroux's overall purpose in this piece?

A pictographic sentence is a sentence which describes and action with its result. For example: "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" This phrase clearly states that if a person hurts another person, then that person has the right to hurt the person who hurt him back.
Some pictographic phrases that are associated with the Hammurabi code are:"If anyone is caught committing a robbery, he shall be put to death"."If a son strikes his father, his hands shall be cut off."