Men aren't stupid and women aren't crazy - A good article, for once

This article was great to read, for once. Heather Gray writes in News.com.au with a heap of good sense. Excerpt:

'YOU know the moment. You’re at a backyard barbecue when one of the wives starts telling silly tales of her husband’s misdeeds. She tells them with a smile and may even be hugging her husband when she does it. Still, though, there’s this cord of tension that you can just feel. She’s mocking him in front of his friends and is doing it in such a way that he will seem “sensitive” if he gets upset about it.

It might be called “passive-aggressive”.

Instead of saying what’s really bothering her, she lets him know through “a joke.”

Others may call it “emotional manipulation.”

She’s being mean and then making him feel like he’s overreacting if he brings it up or gets offended because she was “just joking.”

Maybe as an isolated incident, we can look at this as simple, emotional manipulation. However, this isn’t just one incident.

It’s part of a larger pattern where women are seeking control by implying that men are stupid. It’s a move for power in an area where they are feeling a loss of control.
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Men are showing themselves to be exceedingly adept in areas that we have been socialised to see as “feminine” or something that women just do better.

This is the same reason men began engaging in gaslighting … because women were beginning to excel in areas where traditionally men succeeded.

This gender warfare is the unfortunate side effect of the fight both men and women are having for gender equality.

While women want to be seen and recognised for things outside of home and family, men want to be seen as capable of being present for all that is involved with home, family, and relationships.

Just as we have seen women shut down in the workforce, we’re seeing men shut down on the home front.'