When the 80’s were in full swing and my (then) wife was coming home from her English Literature post-graduate classes, we’d often have debates about patriarchy and related flaws in male nature. I was at a loss trying to figure out how to make up for 5000 years of oppression my sex had inflicted on women. Something didn’t compute for me because I was not exactly enjoying the glorious advantages that patriarchy offers to us guys.
Then, little by little, the men’s mo...
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