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In my recent post, Justice by Female-Run America, I wrote on the various, powerful men that had their photos taken alongside Florida's Attorney General Pam Bondi:
Elderly statesmen, youngish virile world leaders, live-in boyfriends, and faithful, eunuchized husbands pose next to these women. Taken aback by their femaleness, they often stand next to (and by) them, showing their natural, masculine, respectful deferment towards them, the same protective instinct that lets them open doors for women. Yet, this deferment, when stretched to its limit, becomes acquiescence, and ultimately capitulation.I should say that some (a few) men, when stretched to the limit, will not succumb to acquiescence and capitulation, but form a misogynistic, male-centered environment, where these protective deferments to women are no longer practiced.
I think marriage, which is the way that society protects its women (and of course its children) through a stable family with a strong male head, is in decline because of this unwillingness by men to be partnered with these competitive and ambitious women. Divorce, a less aggressive (although equally detrimental) form of "capitulation," is often instigated or pushed by men. Of course, in the end, the whole of society suffers.