The quick roll had me but fathers being tender with their children always gets a RT from me. https://twitter.com/_mbk_juicemann/status/1311162693596917760

Having had privilege of watching multiple “I have a child now” transformations of men in my own family over the yrs, I am more and more convinced that the answer to “How do we get better/more noble men?” is at least **in part** “Give them babies and don’t take those babies away”

What if (as feminists claim) we DO need men to be a bit more nurturing, sensitive, etc in order to have a good society?

And what if *the route to get them there* doesn’t run through training/scolding (which obviously isn’t working), but straight through family formation?

Most men, unlike most women, generally HATE being tender/vulnerable in the public sphere. Know where they do so, and very much enjoy and gain from doing so? In the sheltered, private sphere.

The power to create that sphere, that space, is a substantial power.

This is, over and over, my primary critique of third wave feminism. It is not empowering - it is the wholesale rejection of feminine power, and an abandonment of our domain.

It is the elevation of the masculine as the only thing of value.

It is, furthermore, the reduction of all human M/F relationship to a flat, two-dimensional “power dynamic” wherein the only possible question to **even be asked** is “Who’s on top?”

If that is the sole question your peabrain can conceive of, your answers are going to be WRONG.