Empathy is a virtue which, when it only goes from parent to child, and is not required of the child, becomes a vice. - Warren Farrell

The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now.

All defensive responses to criticism are natural. (It is natural to think of our own perspective before someone else’s.)

If a good woman is killed, a man is to blame.