"Dad's Voice," and this time: How to respond to a furious mom's post on the Internet has set me up with a lot of women who see me as the patriarchy representative

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Women are confident for some reason that we won the big lottery of biology, but being a man is no less shit than being a woman, and probably even more so. Lately, we've been on the wrong ends of too many issues, and you'll hear - it's not the easiest to stay upright when the wind of time blows against you.

Emotions of this kind have permeated the male consciousness for some time, but the feeling we get is that in most cases and places it is not really legitimate for us to vent them. This week, for example, during one of my roaming around the social networks, I came across a post that made me wonder. Someone there told of a case where she encountered a playground. A toddler bullied the toddler, the girl told her mom he was bullying her, and that, in response, told her it was okay, because that's how boys show love.

Of course, the same tweet came to far-reaching conclusions about patriarchy, the easy life men have in this world, the oppression of women in society, and more and more, all from the same case where she allegedly ran into the playground.

Something didn't work out for me with this post. From my acquaintance with parents, most are sure that their offspring are the tiara of creation, and they certainly will not accept that a child who is a normal mortal will treat their offspring in an abusive manner, and may even be a female offspring.

I tried to shut up. On social networks, you have to know how to choose your fights, and my experience suggests that no matter how I respond, I will soon find myself surrounded by women who blame me for misogyny. But in the end I had trouble controlling my cravings. Well, man.

So I wrote to this lady, in a fairly gentle wording, that her story sounded a little unreliable, and that she may have somewhat flexed the reality for the agenda. In response, I got exactly what I thought - a lot of angry women who see me as the representative of the ruling patriarchy, and not just another transparent shackle for her Matrix. I tried to fight, but no one really wanted to listen, so I cut right after a successful punch. To remember me favorably.

I admit that I was a little jealous afterwards of all the embracing reactions she received. On social networks, as in life, when you are an expectation man is to collect your own fragments in every situation. If you don't, they'll just stay on the floor. Women, on the other hand, will always have some extra layer of protection. That's a good thing, I'm not against it. I wish we had the privilege too.

The world today is undergoing many changes. Humans have always been sure that the period in which they live is a unique and decisive intersection in world history, and in this regard we are not too different from our predecessors. Well, at least in the power relations between men and women we are right, because what we have experienced here in recent years has been nothing less than a tectonic shift.

The question that remains open is where we take it from here. When moving tectonic plates have casualties, that's true, but my sense is that something in the inter-relationship has become tighter and more loaded than ever, and that must change. After all, men are not from Mars and women are not manga, we all left the same place. Now we have to deal.