Strollers are the new cars

On NYC's Upper West Side today I saw two fathers discussing the finer features of a stroller. There they were, one father at the rear of the stroller, halted by a friend he appeared to have run into on the street. They were examining the stroller and discussing it the way men in other places are known for discussing cars. And that to me is the genius of the uber-expensive, over-designed stroller that has come into popularity over the last few years. In Manhattan anyway, men can now be proud to be seen behind a baby stroller; as long as it looks like it could be on display at Manhattan Museum of Modern Art and costs at least $1,000.