How Patriarchy affects men, a self perpetuating cycle of denial and excuses.

[Locrian]

6. if you think about it

If you think about this in terms of "dominator" and "partnership" cultures it actually makes even more sense. Excellent book that talks about this:

The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, Riane Eisler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riane_Eisler)

Eisler proposes that we need new social categories that go beyond conventional ones such as religious vs. secular, right vs. left, capitalist vs. communist, Eastern vs. Western, and industrial vs. pre- or post- industrial, which she notes do not describe the whole of a society's beliefs and institutions. She points out that societies in all these categories have been repressive and violent, and that a road map to a more equitable and less violent social structure requires a new frame of analysis that describes social features that are ignored or marginalized in conventional analyses, particularly the social construction of the foundational parent-child and gender relations.[4]

She coined the term dominator culture to describe a system of dominance hierarchy ultimately backed up by fear or force. One of the core components of this system of authoritarian rule in both the family and the state is the subordination of women — whether in Nazi Germany, Khomeini's Iran, or in earlier cultures where chronic violence and despotic rule were the norm. She analyzes the androcracy (governance of social organization dominated by males) of Indo-European and other societies, versus what she proposes was a partnership model (as distinct from matriarchy) for the social organization of Neolithic Europe and the later Minoan civilization that flourished in prehistoric Neolithic Crete.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Chalice-Blade-History-Future/dp/0062502891/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1399547832&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=chalice+and+the+blace