Reply #25: men aren't emasculated; rootless would be better

[PDenton]

Just held up to higher standards than women now days. Feminism has broken women free of alot of the gender roles of the past but it has done nothing for men who don't live up to the ideal 1950's guy. Cold, stoic and strong, passionless but ambitious, money and power hungry and successful. Women, and society in general, still have problems with men that don't make as much money or aren't as successful. Men don't feel "de-manned" by women or society as much as irrelevent and held to double standards.

I've had a few net aquaintances I know, run me down when they figure out I'm a 30 something male that's unemployed and having a tough time finding work. I think if people knew I were a woman, they would go easier on me. It is like it is worse than being a cross-dress or effeminate to be a powerless man. It goes against all those myths that people are still holding onto.

However, I don't think all that said has much to do with the war in Iraq. If anything, the whole "security mommy" thing seems to have been behind alot of George Bush's early support. Maybe women craved real men with power (DICK cheney anybody?), after feminism has pretty much de-powered most ordinary men?