No, Ebbie, that is not my point. ALL the past societies we have a historical record of have been male-dominated. But some of them focused more on the male body in the popular art and culture of the time (the Greeks and Romans certainly did)...while some have focused more on the female body. Our present marketing-oriented culture focuses primarily, in fact almost exclusively, on the female body, and that's become even more noticeable in the past few decades than it was before. I think it's rather odd how out of balance it has gotten. Men (aside from a few popular "Brad Pitt" stars of the day) have become almost invisible people, and are more often than not depicted as unattractive and stupid...for purposes of humour. The present society is still dominated by men at the top echelons (rich men), but it shows little respect to the male gender in a more generalized sense. I think men have, psychologically speaking, been psychologically extremely disempowered in the last few decades.

Except, of course, for rich men. ;-) They run that marketing system I'm referring to and they are anything but disempowered.