There’s a 1991 book that has some good stuff to say on this question: Sam Keen’s Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man. One of many, of course.

Relevance to Senator Sanders’s present positions is tenuous. It’s on the basis of those that I just checked his name in the Democratic Party survey.

I agree that it seems to be some musings on how gender roles can make people unhappy and dishonest with each other.

Not sure how relevant this is to much of anything, really, except an insight into what looks like the (slightly stoned?) musings of a 30-year-old in 1972.

http://www.inquisitr.com/1863607/researchers-suggest-neanderthal-women-hunted-alongside-neanderthal-men/

Admittedly, that’s neanderthals not homo sapiens but still.

The essay speaks for soem experiences of some men and some women and unfairly generalises it I reckon.

Have you ever looked at the Stag Man, Hero, Tough magazines on the shelf of your local bookstore? DO you know why the newspapers with the articles like “Girl 12 raped by 14 men” sell so well?

And nowadays we have the internet ..

In the beginning there were strong men who killed the animals and brought home the food – and the dependent women who cooked it.

That’s a popular or maybe rather common belief. Its not necessarily what the reality was.

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I don’t think this particularly helps or hinders Bernie Sanders campaign. You can read a lot of good or bad or nothing really into it depending on how you choose to interpret it. He hasn’t really made any decisive statements of fact with alot implied and ambiguous but for this single powerful and definitive line :

Women, for their own preservation, are trying to pull themselves together. And it’s necessary for all of humanity that they do so.

Which rather goes against the following sentences and seems a bit disjointed from them.

Its all a bit stream of consciousness and, as noted can be interpreted in a few ways but mainly seems to say there’s a lot of fault and misunderstandings and pain on both sides of the gender divide. Which unsurprisingly for the time (& perhaps his age when he wrote this?) also ignores a whole lot of extra complexities about gender identity and is very binary in its approach which we now realise there’s more to gender than just that black /white make/female duality. (Trans, intersex, neither gender, etc ..)

Haven’t heard of this essay before and no idea if was published at the time and, if so, when and where.

Or whether it was a first draft of later one where running through and brainstorming various thoughts because it sort of seems like first draft, random wandering brain-storming on a theme rather than a proper intellectual academic essay. There’s also obviously a lack of any specific data in it. , which again to me suggests a first or early unfinished draft.

It makes no sense to pretend that this relic of a much younger, inexperienced man is reflective of his position today – but it does lend insight to his perception of inequity and disrespect between the genders.

I would no more hold this against a neocon than against Sanders. What they say NOW counts a lot more.

It was the 70s: a time when weird and amateurish gibberings were celebrated for their own sake.