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In reply to the discussion: The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell [View all]Warpy
(110,746 posts)or by the nervous feeling in the pits of our stomachs when we need to renew a birth control prescription or the constant background fear we all live with 100% of the time that no man will ever understand.
Yeah, we're all powerful and men are just poor victims.
This guy is just an ivory tower theorist who doesn't know what he's talking about. I don't know anyone over the age of 35 who blames their parents for the choices they had to make. I also don't think having men stuff their feelings to succeed in life is much of an answer.
As for a man going to prison for his wife's crimes hundreds of years ago, it's because she was considered his property and any damages caused by his property were his fault. If his cattle got out and wrecked a neighbor's garden, the same thing applied.
This guy is so far off base that most men who are feeling victimised (which they are, but not by women. By themselves and the structures their brothers designed) who will lap it all right up.
Men aren't born monsters. What makes them so is the male paradigm of considering themselves predators and women prey.