Feminism probably wouldn't have propagated very far without the propelling dynamism of the industrial revolution that pushed women into the workforce en-masse, the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_oral_contraceptive_pill#Society_and_culture]invention of female contraceptives[/url] that bestowed women with an unprecedented order of dominion over their futures, and the creation of [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothes_dryer]various[/url] [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_cleaner] revolutionary[/url] [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven]household[/url] [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_stove]appliances[/url] that aided in compressing chores that would have normally taken a full day or more to complete into a couple hours or less. All of these novel and wondrous cultural, economical, and technological shifts and innovations cumulated in the unforeseen but much maligned obsolescence of marriage: the foundational bedrock and binding tether of every reasonably successful civilization in recorded human chronology. Unfortunately, these changes have engendered a generation of apathetic, caddish dudes whom [url=http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/597668]largely have no reason to aspire to their fullest potential[/url]. A lot of marriage hungry [i]and[/i] marriage weary women ignorantly (but [i]perhaps [/i]understandably) deride and castigate these undependable men at every given chance, but there is absolutely no incentive for these guys to invest heavily in a martial union let alone toss a ring on a wanting fiancée's finger. [quote=@Sombrero] I'm not sure feminism is the boogeyman you're looking for here. Men don't talk about their problems because of the "manly" ideals that have been instilled in them over hundreds of years, before Feminism even existed. You don't see men in ads because women are the ones addressing this, because no one has spent generations building a social construct that tells women not to tell people about their shit and only deal with everything themselves. [/quote] Where do manly ideals come from?