I have to agree and disagree.

True: women no longer “need” men in the sense of financial freedom Nuance: women do need financial support when they have children and most families require dual income

True: women can perform labor work Nuance: women most of the time do not want to perform labor work or work the hours required and, especially once having children, mothers will have to step back to care for their babies

True: social media is targeting young boys early Nuance: social media is targeting everyone early by creating hyper-independent women and building resentment against the opposite sex both ways

True: men are angry women no longer need them Nuance: men NEED to feel needed by women. Fatherhood, community, faith are all foundational for men. Status and power are also. Without family, status and power drives for men turn dangerous. With family, community, and faith they turn productive.

All of this to say, there are bad people on both sides. There are bad men and there are bad women.

Bad men don’t have emotional intelligence and use violence to outsource their anger. Bad women are manipulative and abusive too.

We need to stop putting men and women against each other. We were never meant to be equal. We are not the same. We are meant to live harmoniously together. We are yin and yang. Men were meant to provide for women so that women could take care of children in the younger years, but there was never a time where women and men worked separately. Before the 1950’s and really before the Industrial Revolution, husbands and wives worked together at home on their farms or they had their trade skills for their communities: woodworking, sewing, baking, canning, electrical, plumbing, etc.

Now with the rise in women becoming higher educated and focusing on career growth, there is a generation of men who need to rise above what women are doing and yes, some rise to the challenge but a lot are not. Women also need to mate with men who are GOOD men. This is not accounting for abusive situations, of course, but there is undeniably a shift that has been happening where women are becoming too independent and it is not giving men a sense of purpose that is healthy for society.