LOL! One of the problems is that a lot of FReepers have a 1950s view of women and home life: that is, women were supposed to be brainless ditzes (Gracie Allen) or shrews (Alice in The Honeymooners) and Daddy was supposed to be bored and resentful of both his wife and children, but for some reason showing up at the dinner table to rant every night. If you watched I Love Lucy, you got the more positive side...that is, a little shouting and lots of manipulation.
That said, however, I think men do have a problem now, not because of women per se, but because of an educational establishment that has made it seem like a bad thing to be competitive (men are so by nature), aggressive (men are so by nature) or even heroic (men can be so by principle).
The bizarre thing is that there is a woman-as-slut image running along side of this. I lived in a college town about 5 years ago and I had a friend who rented two extra rooms in her very large house to college girls. One and then both of them worked as “dancers” at the local “Gentleman’s Club,” i.e., a roadhouse where truckers and local losers would get “lap dances.” These girls were all upper-middle-class products of the Florida public educational system, and they simply didn’t see anything wrong with this. Their bodies were just a commodity that they were selling - not even for their tuition (the university is almost free to instate students) or housing (their parents were paying that) - but simply to pay for their drinks and an occasional trip to the Bahamas.
So I think we have a lot of problems here.
“I think we have a lot of problems here.”
Well said. Roles are great. Dysfunctions masquerading as such are a different matter.