Manning Up or Wimping Out: Men Don’t Exist to Serve Women’s Desires
Your general point, echoed by the other commenters, is undoubtedly true: culture and technology have combined to create for women the illusion that they do not need men. But of course men created the modern world–and they are the ones who keep it running, in the trenches. This is a larger point than Hobbesian concerns about physical safety: men are on the “business end” of the industrial production of natural resources, and they are also the ones engineering the enabling technology. If all the men disappeared tomorrow, could women keep the various industries underpinning the modern economy running? Maaaaaybe, but certainly not as well as men can. And especially note too the central role played by the government in removing men from the family equation on the culture side.
In this way, the comfortable, low-value-add, office jobs in which women proliferate are made possible by the difficult labors of men. There is much more that can be said about this, but I don’t want to write a book in this comment…
A point of disagreement. Women are not intellectually superior to men, no matter how much the culture struggles to convince us otherwise. There is an evolutionary (i.e. genetic) basis for men’s greater abilities, and hormonal (testosterone) differences combined with greater brain mass give men the advantage in certain areas. There is also some research which indicates that men have a greater variation in intelligence (flatter bell curve), meaning they are overrepresented at the high and low ends of the curve relative to women. Hence there are many more very smart men than very smart women (same on the dumb side as well); hence men have been and continue to be responsible for the vast majority of critical theoretical and applied breakthroughs in science and technology that have spawned the modern world–leading to women fooling themselves into thinking they are masters of the universe. For anyone who doubts the difference in intellectual abilities between the sexes: explain why there is a Women’s World Chess Champion.
In short, men have done such a good job taming nature (and Western men in particular, with women’s help, have arranged the culture in such a way) that women can be forgiven for thinking men are obsolete.
