“For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.”
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The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.
It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.