Women on the Ropes

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Some current prominent authors have written and spoken exhaustively about the demoralization of men in the country, but I would like to suggest here that women are feeling beleaguered and demoralized in a way that is unprecedented in recent American history. From my perspective, the causes include the erosion of traditional family life and with it the role that women played in the world in an evolutionary sense, socially condoned male-on-female violence in the form of social justice psychosis (i.e. MMA fights with men battering women), and an increasing absence and disappearance of reliable and sturdy men with which women can form life. I will draw upon my experience as a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst as well as recent data.