
Only as far as the sixth point is concerned, has there been a significant change.

And now as before, it does not occur to the underprivileged to fight against this grotesque state of affairs. Many achieved for themselves the right to practice their job for the same number of years as their male colleagues - however, the retirement age was not increased for all of us.

Today a career in the military is also open to women in many countries - but without conscription for all. Men only ‘borrow’ their children woman can keep them (as men work all their lives and women do not, men are automatically robbed of their children in cases of separation - with the reasoning that they have to work).Īs one can see, if anything, the female position of power has only consolidated.Even though men work all their lives, and women work only temporarily or not at all, on average, men are poorer than women.Men work all their lives women work only temporarily or not at all.Men support women women never, or only temporarily, support men.Men have almost no influence over their reproduction (for males, there is neither a pill nor abortion - they can only get the children women want them to have).Men retire later than women (even though, due to their lower life-expectancy, they should have the right to retire earlier).Men are sent to fight in wars women are not.

Here is a list of issues which I recognized in the original book to be men’s most significant disadvantages compared to women.

Updated 2019 01 27: Added links to related articles and a translation of the definitions of the German term ‘dressieren’, as the English translation of the original, German title of the book does not quite do justice to the meaning of ‘Der Dressierte Mann’ (‘The Manipulated Man’, is not sufficiently pejorative).Īs per Esther Vilar, in her book The Manipulated Man,
