No one has taught men to sue women for sexual trauma for saying
yes, then no, then yes, then no during a sexual encounter. Feminism left
women with three sexual options - their old role, the male role and the
victim role. Men were left with less than one option - they were still
expected to initiate in a relationship, but now, if they did it badly,
they could go to jail for it.
Feminism justified female "victim power" by convincing the world that we
live in a sexist, male-dominated and patriarchal world. In fact, the
world is both male- and female-dominated, both patriarchal and
matriarchal, each in different ways. Among other things, that's why
patriarchy and male dominance double as code words for male
disposability. The male's role - to provide and protect - led to the
disposal of men in war and work (in the "death professions" of
construction, firefighting, lumberjacking, trucking). While we
acknowledged the glass ceilings that kept women out of the top, we
ignored the glass floors that kept men at the bottom. Thus the "Jobs
Rated Almanac" reveals that the majority of the 25 worst jobs "happened
to be" male dominated.
By the Eighties, feminism's ability to articulate a women's light side
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