The average woman must inevitably view her actual husband with... The average woman must inevitably view her actual husband with a certain
disdain; he is anything but her ideal. In consequence, she cannot help
feeling that her children are cruelly handicapped by the fact that he is
their father.
-- H.L. Mencken
The big question is why in the course of evolution the males... The big question is why in the course of evolution the males permitted
themselves to be so totally eclipsed by the females. Why do they tolerate
this total subservience, this wretched existence as outcasts who are
hungry all the time?