"have written extensively on men post WW II, have been rather ignorant of the needs, and inner needs of women, and how the 'woman's movement' was a backlash, to that ignorance. But alas, the pendulum swings, which of course it always does, and now there is a backlash to woman's ignorance of men. During the 70's 80's and 90's, there was quite a wave of impressing upon men, the need to understand women and the way they think, and how to communicate to them in a way they both understood, and felt, as if they were being heard. I think most everyone in here can attest to that. You can see it in every aspect of media, music, films during that time. However, during that same time, there was absolutely no counterpart to that, where women learned about men..Now the backlash to that is certainly upon us."

Correct. We are now in a society which has spent several decades thoroughly exploring women's rights, needs, and concerns...as was a good thing to do...but in the meantime men have been psychologically cast adrift. And that has caused damage of its own in society, so, yes, the backlash to the big pendulum swing is upon us.

A similar backlash is occurring in regards to various issues of race.

When, in the effort to redress old grievances a society becomes so self-consciously aggressive over them that it creates new grievances...well, then you have some serious disillusionment setting in, as those who have been cast as martyrs or saints turn out not to always be so saintly as the public image would demand. No, they turn out to be as imperfect as the rest of us. They are not always the martyr. They are not always the saint. They may be the perpetrator, not the victim....yet the officially sanctioned script still wants to cast them as the eternal victim of "prejudice".

This may not jibe with the reality at all, and when it doesn't, you get a backlash.

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As for same-sex marriages... (shrug) I don't care one way or the other about that. It doesn't interest me who other people decide to marry.