Never a truer arrow loosed.
Dead on MA, Dead on. Its not that women didn't matter, its that they were written out of what mattered, kept out of what mattered. That isn't the case now, and many insecure men resent the competition, and the loss of power.
When the south fought against the notion of emancipation, many a dirt-poor white southern sharecropper said: 'if they free the slaves, who will I be above?' and fought to preserve the very boot under which they suffered. More than a few men, I think, feel that way about the prospect of women unfettered by the dead weight of 'Yeah, thats nice missy, but you don't really matter'.
Yeti