On weak and feeble men

Libby Purves in the Times today fuels the men haters by listing recent men ‘too weak and feeble-willed to live with life’s little troubles, such as the wife and children walking out’ so they try and sometimes succeed in killing themselves and their children. You'd find just as many ‘self-pitying’ women doing the same if the tables were turned and there was an assumption that whatever the rights and wrongs that the father could take the home, children, ensure they never see them and meanwhile women had to pay for the favour. We live in a bizarre world where a women can say 'I'm bored, leave' and they can even add ‘or I’ll slap you again’ and the law will help the new lover move in. If there was more equality and less despair at the inevitability of the outcome there might just be fewer tragedies like these.