Where Have All the Pants Gone?

Sure gender roles these days are changing, take this Psychology Today blog post, that contends that nerds rule in the mating game these days because women look to men less for their virility and ability to hunt and protect her, and more for what he can add to her financial portfolio.  As women have become more financially independent the need for a man has shifted to that of sperm donor and financial contributor. 

Dr. Ira Rosofsky writes:

As our society, if not our biology evolves, I see two adaptations.

Women will not need a relationship with a man beyond copulation or artificial insemination for our species to survive.

But this may also be the birth of a true era of romantic love. As women become less dependent on men for their resources, they may become more exclusively interested in men for their physical and emotional attractiveness.

In other words, women may become more like men--valuing what turns them on over what pays the bills.

I think the exaggeration of emasculation present in some of the Superbowl Ads provided another outlet for dudes to complain about having to deal with a shrewish woman nagging and bossing.  Perhaps many men feel they have been proverbially castrated by the women in their lives.  To those men, I say, grow a new pair and stand up to her.  If you are less than content to be bossed around and prefer partnership instead, say so. Feminism was never about overtaking your masculinity, simply getting you to accept us as equals.  Get over putting the toilet seat down and helping out around the house and we'll get over your overwhelming urge to watch Football.