ABSTRACT
The main point is that this role is imposed on men by society in a heavy-handed way which is hard to evade. According to biological conservatives, virtually all social behaviour exhibits men’s natural tendencies as selected through an evolutionary process. Radical profeminists follow the lead of radical feminism in holding that hegemonic masculinity is committed to misogyny and violence against women, and that patriarchy is the social and political order in which this exists. Men’s rights advocates draw particular attention to the oppression of men in divorce cases, the way in which men are success objects and disposable objects, and the way in which men’s nurturance of women is denied and forgotten. The male role is constructed to suit the ruling groups, who are mainly concerned with power and profit. Sex roles are constructed through and through: to detect them we have to understand the social context, which is patriarchal capitalism.
