It is not the majority of men who are loving partners and fathers, but the few who are violent and abusive who have become the archetypical male: such behaviour not an aberration but the norm of male conduct. Somewhere along the dark and twisted path to these beliefs tolerance and understanding; feminine compassion and gentleness have been lost. To a depressingly large number of women, men have become some form of loathsome vermin, fit only to be the butt of spiteful jokes and propaganda.. In a... Sign in to see full entry.