Real Men Don't Say Spritz
Sam Aurelius Milam III

... Democracy, for example, arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects.... —from Politics by Aristotle

Usage in the language suggests that equality can be tricky.  Have you noticed what happens if a man fails to consult with his wife before making a change in his appearance?  It doesn't matter if it's a different style of clothes, something that he did to his hair, if he got some new glasses, if he decided to start growing a beard, if he decided to shave off his beard, if he bought a different color tie, or anything else.  Whatever such change he makes, it's likely that she'll tell him how silly it looks, whether it does or not, and demand to know why he did such a thing without consulting with her first.  Here's an interesting bit of usage.  Even if she damns him for a fool, he's expected to "take it like a man".
On the other hand, what do you suppose would happen if a woman pranced in with a new hair style and her husband told her that he liked the previous one better?  Oops.  Who ever heard of taking it like a woman?  The fact is that if a man criticizes his wife's appearance then he'll probably still end up having to "take it like a man".  It's a revealing bit of usage.
The usage suggests one of the several irremovable differences between men and women.  That is, a man is expected to endure pointless criticism from women, to take it like a man.  Usually, men are stout enough to do exactly that.  Women are cut from a different cloth.  A woman isn't expected to tolerate any criticism at all from a man.  Nobody ever says "take it like a woman".  Instead, when faced with criticism, most women will get their panties in a bunch, another interesting bit of usage.  A man can't get his panties in a bunch because (mostly, I hope) men don't wear panties.  Thus does usage as well as experience suggest that hissy fits are probably a mostly female phenomenon.
If a man behaves incautiously toward a woman and isn't sufficiently prompt and abject in his apologies, then Hell hath no fury, another usage that applies only to women.  Such a woman scorned or even just a woman criticized might well initiate some kind of retaliation.  It might be only "the silent treatment".  Many women don't realize what a blessing that can be but let's just keep it to ourselves.  Anyway, the ultimate example of such retaliation, at least for wives, is customarily known as "cutting him off" — not referring to Lorena Bobbitt, of course.  Generally speaking, "cutting her off" isn't a common usage in the language.  Also, it isn't a common tactic in a man's arsenal of techniques for use in domestic squabbles.  Regarding such "bedroom tactics", even if a domestic squabble is nothing more serious than one spouse being kept awake because the other spouse is snoring, and regardless of which spouse is being kept awake, it's always the man who's evicted to the couch.  Usage can be revealing.  There's a good reason why we call it bitching.
In the final analysis, feminism relies for its alleged legitimacy on the inherently stupid notion, observed by Aristotle more than 2000 years ago, that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects.  As he seems to have believed, and as I mentioned at the beginning of this article, equality can be tricky.  It's even more tricky when you add gender to the mix.  If women were equal to men, then we'd be able to criticize the little darlings the same way that they can criticize us.  Obviously we can't so obviously they aren't.  It's ironic that they demanded equality so stridently, for so many years, when they aren't man enough to handle it.  Note the usage.  Equal means "the same as".  Women are not the same as men.  Thus, while women might be equal to men in some respects, they're not equal to men in all respects.  It probably makes them want to grimace and stomp their dainty little feet but my best advice to them regarding their inequality is one of the statements that they so dearly love to make to us.  "Get over it."
What a nice bit of usage.