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In reply to the discussion: The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)Jefferson Cowie http://books.google.com/books/about/Stayin_Alive.html?id=xz-EINoBGNcC says Nixon gave Middle-class White Males artificial "power" in order to use them to break FDR's New Deal Coalition and to then seed The Southern Strategy and then Reagan, subsequently, disposed of them.
It's interesting that such a visionary as John Steinbeck, in the final vignette in Grapes of Wrath, foresaw exactly this dynamic by posing the low-economic-class, extremely dependent, Rose o' Sharon, who had just delivered a still-born abnormal baby in the midst of a raging flood, smiling mysteriously as she breast-feeds an indigent male (recall also the recent cover of Time magazine), who was starving to death.
Perhaps men should ask themselves if their perceived "strength" is not due to the fact that they've become infantilization addicts, enabled by and dependent upon the weaknesses of others and women should ask themselves the reciprocal of that same question.