Sexism - but against men

During  the course of the last few years, or maybe long before, it seems that it is considered perfectly reasonable by most women, to make offensive remarks about men, with absolute impunity. How has this situation come about? My perception is that many women feel that they and their  women friends and colleagues are superior in every way to men, except for brute strength. Men are mocked and derided to such a shocking degree that if for one moment someone attacked women with the same venom, there would be an outcry.

The Nobel prize winner for literature, Doris Lessing, at the start of this new millennium, pointed out that it had somehow become acceptable for the most  stupid and arrogant of women to say the most derogatory, savage and unkind things about the most sensitive, intelligent and kind men. This thought of Lessing's is particularly worthy of contemplation as Lessing for years has been praised for her work in which she argues for women to be treated as and regarded as equal to men. The irony, of course, is that now it seems women are doing exactly what men used to do in saying how useless women are, how their true arena is the domestic one and their only role is to look after men and children. It used to be OK to say how  women were out of their depths driving cars, sitting on boards, being politicians and even going to university. It is certainly not OK now, and rightly so.

Men, it seems, right now, cannot win. If a man doesn't express his emotions he's emotionally retarded. If he does express his emotions, he's weak, pathetic, needs to grow a pair, to man up and to stop being so pathetic. What women want are 'real men'; men with leather tool kits strapped to their chests, chests with no hint of a man-boob who are capable and can fix anything, anywhere. When they get a 'real man' women set about emasculating them. To take as an example people I know in heterosexual relationships, it is the case that the women are the ones who are the bosses. I suspect that is the case in the majority of  these relationships throughout the UK and beyond.