Is the whipper-snipper the most reviled garden tool of all?

https://www.smh.com.au/national/is-the-whipper-snipper-the-most-reviled-garden-tool-of-all-20220321-p5a6ip.html

​Men – particularly older men – are notoriously reluctant to share their emotions or inner secrets. Thank goodness, otherwise we wouldn’t have the English literature canon from Jane Austen onwards. Or Hugh Grant’s movie career, come to that.
So I was stunned at a recent lunch when a group of former alpha males switched the conversation from sport (“Why are there no rugby tackles in the Winter Olympics?“) to their own main failing in life. Impotence? Absence during the sleepless early years of parenthood? Non-attendance in budgie smugglers at school swimming carnivals?