Eventually I came to understand how gender roles hurt everyone. Before being seen as a human being with very individual characteristics and choices, we are being labeled by our genitals as a male or a female and treated accordingly within our culture. Men are are trained and conditioned for these roles from an early age. The core of this macho training is a denial of the full range of emotions and body feelings. Having no soul union with other men can be the most damaging wound of all.
Much personal power is given away in the process of denying one's true feelings.
1 Competition, success, ownership and external rewards become the foundation of Superman pseudo power. This conditioning insidiously crystallizes the male role of performer,hero, macho,provider, achiever, doer. That's how we transform a human being into a human doing. From that place of isolation from his true self, he becomes an easy prey to a system that only values external rewards such as success and ownership. Competition becomes the rule and the way to relate to other men.