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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I always assumed it was because they were used to the world revolving around them and always getting their way. Now they have to co-exist in a world where women can also do things like hold jobs and vote. Many were raised to believe they could do anything (because in the past they could) and now they struggle with not getting things easy. I think I just described toddlers too. Lol[/quote]

The problem with these kind of theories is that  men today were born and raised after women gained these rights. They have never known a world where women didn't have the right to vote or hold jobs. And the decline in traditional male jobs is mostly due to globalization, not women. [/quote]

I think you grew up in a bubble if you think the men today were born and raised after women gained equality. First off, women still don't have equality. Second, in most of the country, adults today were still raised in very gendered, traditional communities where men were the breadwinners and women were largely responsible for kids and the home. EVEN if both parents worked. I grew up in the 80s and both of my parents had jobs but my dad never cooked or cleaned at all and my mom's job was treated as extra, or something she did for herself when her childcare/household duties were done. My husband's family was the same, and his mom was even the primary earner in his family for years. But his parents still viewed him dad as the head of the household.

People in their 30s and 40s today were the FIRST generation where many or even most women were raised to believe they could have pretty much any job and could be financially and professionally equal to men. There were women who felt this way before, but they were outliers, the products of unusually feminist and progressive households. It was not until the 1990s that it became fairly standard for people, even in small towns and more traditional communities, to raise girls to assume they would get jobs and have careers and would be financially/professionally equal to men. And therefore it is that generation of men who are contending broadly with what it really looks like for women across the board to have financial equality and independence. It truly is a recent shift.[/quote]

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