A liberal links feminism to cheap energy

The view from Brittany: Gender Issues

In comparison with the prognostications and recommendations of someone like Sharon Astyk, the author's post is more in tune with the perspective of a traditionalist. But it may also be a bit more inconsistent? Like Astyk, he links contemporary feminism to cheap energy and the destruction of home economies by the industrial system. But he also agrees that feminism has adopted standards of what it means to be a successful woman from the world of men. (Thus, feminism is misogynist.) I think Perrotin admits to more differences between the sexes than Astyk and that in other political economies, sex roles have been founded upon those sex differences, even if they may no longer be "adaptive." He however does not address the question of leadership within a marriage and family, and even maintains that there is a possibility that a "some kind of mother-centered family structure evolves." Is he saying that this has not been attempted before and found to be successful (that is, abiding)?

One does not wish to be crudely reductionistic, as if the respective roles of men and women in intercourse lead to the patterns of psychological dynamics that exist between men and women (though there is some causation). The female yields to the male, and the initiative that the man takes in sex is mirrored in the marital sphere as a whole. Most women would be dissatisfied if the situation were otherwise, and it does explain in part the hypergamy of women, who do look for a male who is better than (or dominates) them.

Ideological feminists who have healthy female desires may nonetheless deny this is so, but if a man is too yielding to her will, she will become dissatisfied with him. What woman is truly satisfied with a man as a tool? Someone who doesn't like men, or looking for complete control in a relationship in order to avoid a repeat of past hurts (childhood problems linked to the father, or poor past relationships).

Assertiveness is not leadership, but some think that all one needs to be a leader is to assert one's will over another.