The modern man

The modern man is an ironic thing. Because of history's nature, the modern man must accept the consequences of his fathers and pay the penalty for the previously masculine world. No longer is the modern man allowed to in any way criticize or oppress women. The modern man knows that gender equality is the thing to work towards and his collaboration is to remove himself from the new status quo; to not object to the brave new world of women.

Motherhood is obviously a purely patriarchal construct that is used to oppress women and make sure that women are never able to reach the positions and salaries that men are able to. The woman sacrifices herself and takes the burden of motherhood on her shoulders. The modern man knows that motherhood is not a gift, it is a burden that must be shared. As are household duties. In fact, if all things were equal, the modern man should in fact care for the child and the household while the woman is free to do as she pleases, be it an increased focus on her career or exercise her newly found sexual freedoms. After all, marriage itself is again an oppressive patriarchal construct--a deal between the bride's father and the groom.

The modern man knows that women are not objects and that scantily clad women are in fact doing a disservice for other women. He knows that a woman is never too thin or too thick, just right. He also knows that he is in no position to comment on the lifestyle choices of the woman. After all, a woman need not answer to any man. Yet the modern man is also very aware that he must work in keeping a trim body, since the underwear commercials in which men appear are commonly acknowledged to be acceptable. Physically the modern man has a fat percentage that approaches zero and has a flawless skin as well as a neat six-pack of abs. He knows that he if he fails at this, he is a slob and having a beer with the mates is unacceptable, since male bondage is typically around quintessentially male subjects. Circles where women haven't traditionally had any sort of foothold. Formula, ice hockey, and technical gadgets. But he knows that this is wrong, since the previous men have used their power to keep women out of these fields. Mathematics and other sciences have been dominated by men, which is very unfair as it promotes a masculine view of the world.

In fact, the modern man knows that gender quotas are a good thing. At least 50% of any group must be women, otherwise the women are being oppressed. A company whose board has a woman majority is visionary and modern whereas the opposite company is old-fashioned and discriminating. But the modern man knows that gender equality means that women ultimately have the power to decide what it means. The modern man must still protect the queen and country; women should need not trouble themselves with issues of war. The modern man also knows that it is his duty to fix broken things and make sure the cars work.

In sports, the modern man knows that having separate categories for male and female competitors is bad as it discriminates women. But having separate categories is also good, because if men were to compete with women, women would be again oppressed in certain sports in which the male physique offers an unfair advantage to men, e.g. through power. As contradicting as this sounds, the modern man does not see it as in reality it isn't contradicting at all. In fact the modern man knows that the world does not have any contradictions, since the modern man is very well aware that his place in the modern world is to stay quiet and out of the way of the modern woman, who in all equality is the most equal of beings and thus allowed to rule the world. Of course the modern man is again smart enough not to say this out loud.