Celebrating heroic men and an unappreciated aspect of masculinity

[noamnety]

4. Cultural impact

"Wouldn't equality mean that women should be saving men at roughly half the amount?"

Yes. So that begs the question - why the discrepancy? What is it in our culture that makes men believe they are rescuers, and women believe they are a thing to be rescued?

This is why there's a push among feminists to stop making storylines for children/girls/women that focus on men rescuing women. It indoctrinates us to believe that's how life is. I don't know if you've heard in the news over that last few weeks that people are rewriting old video games to switch male/female roles to even things out. I don't know that disney's ever going to get there.

There's even a whole series I've seen on pajama ads where the little girls are in gowns standing around looking like dainty princesses, and the boys are wearing spiderman pjs and posed in action shots.

Where we differ in our views is whether the ability to rescue is "one of the best aspects of manhood" - or whether it's one of the best aspects of humanity and we are doing everyone a disservice by indoctrinating half the population to think it's not their job. And if you believe the latter statement to be true, how do we go about identifying the causes and addressing them?