This seems like a multitude of issues that have come to stern: For hundreds, nay thousands of years, men were the dominant sex. Now, we find ourselves responding to the recent backlash. Women’s suffrage and equal rights are good things, don’t get me wrong. However, I think we, as American’s, went about it the wrong way. Equality, to me, means dignifying the work you do, not necessarily to being able to do the work of others. For instance, taking care of house has been laid aside for the quest of the corporate or professional life. What about giving credit for all that work that was done at home? I fondly remember my mother taking pride in having a clean house, a well fed family, and time spent rearing her children. “Married Man” mentioned greed. I would agree that we have been greedy. Greedy for bigger houses for all our crap, fancier cars to keep up with the Jones’s, and a boat or some other extraneous expense in the driveway. All this at the cost of time spent with family, or in the neighborhood, or whatever we’ve sacrificed for our “professional” careers. I think we have come to reap, what we’ve sown. The pursuit of the “thing” or “title” has given us a society that does not respect the things that were previously taught in the home. Our schools, or nannies, or electronic media teach our kids (and probably generation X & Y) how to behave, or not behave. Lack of respect, generally speaking, is what we’re talking about here. Men are just starting to notice it, and we’re ticked. The real question is, what would you give up for respect?
