If you decide to advise your son to stand up to bullies at school and fight back, he might face consequences like getting expelled. Starting a club exclusive to men, you'll be sued. If you yell at your wife, you will be arrested for verbal abuse. Saying anything that might offend someone, somewhere it can result in social exclusion. In the unfortunate event of a divorce, there's a great chance you might be accused of molesting your own children. Even making an inocent joke about women at the office can result in losing your job. It seems like nowadays as a man there are potential repercussions for expressing yourself, and it can be challenging to navigate these situations.

But wait...When did this ‘chickification’ get so trendy? When did wimpy, cautious, female values take priority? It almost feels like men have been limited, almost like they're put in a small, restricted area.

In one of Dr. Laura's books, she talks about how in just one generation, we've shifted from the idea that ‘dad knows best’ all the way to dad is stupid, lazy, most of the times wrong and quite often dangerous.

That same woman noticed that nowadays, women have serious troubles building the relationships and family life they really want. Back in the day, mothers taught their daughters to be smart and understanding when it came to dealing with men. They knew how to use their "feminine wiles" to create and keep a happy relationship, benefiting both partners. But today, some women have swapped these qualities for things like disrespect, being overly sensitive, criticizing, and constantly nagging.

Common wisdom has it that, nowadays, men pretty well have to be kept penned up. For our own good, you know. The mere whiff of testosterone is enough to bring down the wrath of God (Who is pretty much conceded to be a woman, anyway)

You can notice it when watching TV. Almost all the dads on TV shows these days are portrayed as silly slobbering  idiots.  Still, they all have smart and good-looking wives who spend their lives saving stupid old dad from himself. But it makes you wonder, if these wives are so clever, why did they marry such losers? The answer you get from a woman is simple: they no longer have any choice. "All men are like this today." is how TV reflects real life today.

"To know a culture, look to its heroes," goes the saying, and here, too, we see change and new models of leadership.Even our entertainment heroes have lost their masculine muscle. Arnold, Bruce and Stallone are long gone from the screen, but even the flirty, flaky, funny adolescents—Tom, Brad, Jim, and Will—no longer charm us quite as much as they once did. Instead, our leading men are the dangerous but effete and oh-so-delicate Robert Pattinson of Twilight fame. Or the gender-bending, pirate-styling and pretty Johnny Depp. Even James Bond has found his feminine side—all he wants is a quantum of solace, crushed as he is at the thought that the one he loved, really truly loved, betrayed him.

It’s been a slow and sneaky, almost subliminal plan to change the way we see men and women in their roles. This shift began quietly on TV as far back as the 50’s with the Honeymooners and continued on through the Flintstones and All in the Family, and has gotten to the point where today, it’s difficult to find an exception to that Dumb dad – Smart mom scenario. There’s not even a pretense of equality any more.

Many things that were considered traditionally manly, like smoking, drinking, guns, fast cars, poker nights, hot mistresses and Playboy Clubs, are now either limited, frowned upon, controlled, banned, or just out of business.

Nowadays, men often get cosmetic surgery, visit hairdressers, paint their nails and carry purses.

So what the hell is going on here?

And just like that, out of the sudden, there's this expectation for men to be caring, nurturing, sensitive, considerate and very talktive, while we clean the windows and check the daily horoscope of our wifes in order to be prepared and informed about the latest planet shifts and how they can possibly affect the whole mood at this damn household. In simpler terms, it seems like someone want us men to become not just better life partners but full-fledged women.

And men are doing it, seemingly without any complaint at all. (Except for some lone burps and farts in the wilderness).

"Hey hi! How do you do? My name is Nick. Would you like a cup of herbal tea while we wait for our face mask to dry?"

Stop right there!

Has anyone else noticed this? Does it not bother anyone? What's going on? Did women evolve differently (being a completely separate species that they are) and now men are just desperately changing to impress these new mutant women? Or did men devolve, and now women are stuck with this newer, less tough, and less inspired version?

In what sense have women changed that may be the contributing factor? Why are their actions simply based on the fact that " it was easier for her to do things herself "? Where will men end up at in this twisted equation?

 Sean Penn once said men have become “quite feminized.” In his opinion "being a brute or having insensitivity or disrespect for women is anything to do with masculinity, or ever did." But he doesn’t think that [in order] to be fair to women, men should become them.”

Things have become so bad, so quickly, that emergency social repairs are needed. “It is like the needles on a magnetic compass reversing their polarity,” Reeves writes. “Suddenly, working for gender equality means focusing on boys rather than girls.”

Does society make us believe that being a real man is being an evil?

Good, then let's be it!

Yes, real men are dominant, but in a good way. A real man takes care of things and makes sure problems are solved quickly and properly. And don't get confused. Women still like real men!

Women CRAVE real men. They just want you to have the passion, show determination, have self-esteem, integrity, some old school discipline and be able to take care of them. A real man has a good pair of balls and is never afraid to show it, so stand your ground and make sure you raise the next generation in a proper way.