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It's a point that's been made repeatedly but it is more relevant today than ever: in the years after feminism and sexual liberation, men's roles changed as much as women's, but these new roles were largely imposed upon men, rather than resulting from a concerted effort on their part to redefine what they wanted.
| Does that imply that men were happy with their former roles? Or that they didn't know any better? Or that they had been successfully deceived?
Most noticeable is that the 'thought balloons' of both the man and the woman are filled with consumer goods - and I include the baby.
The traditional male weapons in the sex war are non-cooperation and flight.The traditional female weapon is celebration of paternity and male responsibility. If women now choose to define this as patriarchal oppression, they are throwing away their best trick. Feminism, in dismantling patriarchy, is simply reviving the underlying greater natural freedom of men. - Geoff Dench 1998 (edited) |