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Notes from the Under Dog L.'s avatar

I'd like more from Nuzzo, but indeed, women's hyperbole has driven men away.

Drucker also writes: "I’m 54. I’ve been dating since the mid-80s, been married, been a mother, gotten divorced, had many relationships long and short. I remember when part of heterosexual male culture involved showing up with a woman to signal something — status, success, desirability. Women were once signifiers of value, even to other men. It wasn’t always healthy, but it meant that men had to show up and put in some effort."

What this means is that there's fallout in her past, and she's onto the next guy. Who wants to be next in a litany of men? Inherent in getting together with her, is getting dumped. Of course the assertion is that men have discarded women for centuries, but in my observations, that didn't necessarily end their loyalty to providing for families, whereas in the wild west of female-dominated society, an affair is a ticket to divorce. She just keeps cycling through them, on an endless search for "the one."

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Yvonne Elizabeth  Aston's avatar

Oh dear me Underdog, how absolutely frightful. I had father, brothers, cousins, childhood and college friends who were male. They were all good guys, practically minded and very helpful.

I joined the equal pay for women league but when the dialogue changed to men being the sources of everything that was awful and burning one’s underwear I unjoined.

Mutuality, love, appreciation, respect for one another and the recognition that men and women need each other and should be joined in alliance in order to achieve a happy existence is obvious. Just stop misandry and misogyny. Neither attitude is happiness and life promoting.

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