Do men correct each other

[square813]

me as a woman and im sure others will agree that when a woman does something wrong we say hey your giving us a bad name. Do you men say anything or let it go

[courtneyiscool]

my brother sees his guy friends doing crazy stuff or heading in the wrong direction, he says something to them about it. Women probably do this a lot more than men do, though.

[catscalw]

Yes men do correct each other, but to be a guy in this day and age that has respect for the opposite sex is to be a walking target. Most men are in an unconscious collusion of subtle control with respect to their collective attitudes about the women in their lives. Four thousand years of the patriarchy doesn't pass into archetype quietly. Power of this kind usually does not relinquish its control voluntarily, but things are beginning to change, almost imperceptibly...

To make indicting statements like this one is to invite attack from both sexes. It is not just the Men who are hard wired to this paradigm. Most of the women that I know all sill state unequivocally that they are all waiting for a strong man, who is emotionally literate, who will show up in relationship, who understands that the true Male desires to empower those around him, and not to have power over those around him.
When they find themselves in relationship with this man, they have no idea what to do with him, and invariably end up sabotaging the intimacy.

It is a difficult thing to be expected to be a walking indictment and target, by showing up in the way that we always hear our women asking for. It is to not have many Men friends. It is an invitation to ridicule and ostracism. It is NOT a formula for the perfect relationship, no matter what you would have us believe. It is, rather, both a recipe for simply another form transcendent conflict, bringing relationship to its next form, and also the only conscious path left for a man with integrity in these somewhat degenerate and dynamic times.