These men are still around us, we know them as brutish men. Guys who will not be toyed with. When the change comes around, those women who fancy themselves feminists, will be cuddling up to them boys.
It has only been in the last 60 years where such has changed. It has been a technological change, based on birth control and a technological society. It does not appear to me that women who do not bond to a competent man, are better off.