Novelist condemns female culture that revels in humiliating other sex (2001)

Doris Lessing's age is interesting in this case. She is the same generation as my mother. The difference in views and attitudes toward men between that generation, my wife's generation, and my daughter's generation is concerning enough that I go out of my way to teach my grandson that it's great to be a man. Hopefully it will be enough to counterbalance the unthinking, automatic, and pervasive attacks on his masculinity that I have seen him experience at school and sometimes at home.

"I was in a class of nine- and 10-year-olds, girls and boys, and this young woman was telling these kids that the reason for wars was the innately violent nature of men."

To which I might retort, "Historicaly, what is it about women which makes the men in their lives want to potentially travel great distances, and then maim, mutilate, and murder each other rather than, you know, spend more time with their women back home?"

it's a pendulum. It needed to swing. It will swing back, and eventually come to rest in the middle.

FYI mods/editors: this article is from 2001. Sad she passed away recently.

Feminism, safe-spaces and microaggressions will be moot when there's no food, no jobs in ~30 years and billions of people migrate to near the heavily-fortified scraps of arable land. Instead, most people will have more pressing worries: not being gang-raped, mugged and extortion rates.