Here’s what I want to know this morning:
If women resent the fact that men often require women to be their sexual vibrator, then why are women often insistent that men are their emotional vibrator? If a man is self-centered to require a woman to fulfill his sexual needs, why is a women not considered equally as self-centered to require a man to fulfill her emotional needs? Why does a woman require a man to be emotionally available for her and yet resent the fact when he asks her to be sexually available for him?
Where’s the equity?
It seems to me that it is part of a greater cultural trend. In the face of feminism, a movement with which I wholeheartedly agree, women are asking questions of those social institutions that characterise the (now rather distant) past.
The problem, now, is that no masculine counter-culture has arisen, except in homosexuality.
There is now a distinct social inequity, wherein a woman who decries man for his desire for constant sexuality is simply “empowered” and “deep”, whereas a man who decries woman for her desire for constant emotional outpouring is “shallow” and “selfish”.
When we reduce the two concepts, however, they are two sides of the same coin: sexuality is deeply emotional and emotion is deeply sexual. The problem comes down to expression, and at present men are certainly suffering the brunt of imbalance.
Thank you for offering such a well thought and well stated comment. I appreciate the effort and the insight.
Thank you.