A Paragraph to Ponder

From the David Brooks column in the New York Times on Tuesday - - Why Men Fail.  This is an important column for the male dominated professions, like engineering, to read and discuss.

"Forty years ago, men and women adhered to certain ideologies, what it meant to be a man or woman.  Young women today, Rosin argues, are more like clean slates, having abandoned both feminist and prefeminist preconceptions.  Men still adhere to the masculinity rules, which limits their vision and there movement.

If she's right, then men will have to be less like Achilles, imposing their will on the world, and more like Odysseus, the crafty, many-sided sojourner.  They'll have to acknowledge that they are strangers in a strange land."