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Has anyone read The Privileged Sex by Martin van Creveld? Sounds interesting.

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The constant theme he examines in venues from Ancient Rome to medieval Austria to Betty Friedania is that groups of men everywhere and always supply society, protection, and resources to groups of women. With prodigious scholarship, he shows that the law and social norms have privileged women over men, at all places and all times. Briskly and efficiently he describes the "false consciousness" (delighted to use the famous phrase) which permits the President of a large sophisticated community (ours) to continue to parrot among countless others the deceiving and moronic stat that women earn 77 cents on the male dollar. Men work longer, more dangerously, don't take 4-8 years off to childbear. Women like and accept and may prefer part-time work far more than men.

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