” Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves. “
” If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe. “
” The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards. “
” Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can’t step up and provide. “
” Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive. “
” Women don’t give up things. They don’t give up responsibilities. They add new things. They exhaust themselves and still don’t give anything up. And. And. And. And. And they do all these other things at the same time, which can be exhausting. “
” Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men. “
” Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily. “
” Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people’s views into account, allow you to be successful. “
” Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men… don’t band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way. “
” For women in, say, Alabama, ‘feminism’ is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don’t think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are. “
” Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem. “
” Because women have been marginalised, they’re more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don’t think a happy ending comes from matriarchy. “
” Interestingly, one thing I’ve found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they’ll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them. “
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