Non-violent sanctions such as peer pressure, publicity, boycott, and protest could be equally effective and less open to abuse. These new forms of controls would eliminate the warrior ethic and weapons of war. Though it may be true that many men and women already share these values, most undoubtedly remain afraid to challenge the elites that fiercely defend male dominance. Inspiring those sympathetic individuals male and female to work toward creating a society based upon such humane and libertarian values is our most important task. A recent study shows women are twice as likely as men to suffer depression because of pessimistic attitudes, the stresses of child care, poverty, and sexual and physical abuse.
Women remain dependent upon even addicted to their romantic relationships with men.
The desire to gain and keep a man s love remains most women s strongest motivation. Who Love Them sell millions. Women must realize that so long as the patriarchal nation state survives men retain the delusion that they are superior to women who are at the bottom of the hierarchy. They will continue to deprive women of respect, love, and opportunity. When women challenge the legitimacy of the nation state, they deprive men of the ultimate trappings of pride and power.