The implications of this are immense. I would argue that a certain kind of father-son relating, fuelled by positive and frankly expressed physical warmth, inspires the new kinds of social organisation now urgently needed by Western societies. This mode of relationship stresses community and non-hierarchical organisation, which women find more congenial, rather than aping all the worst features of the male drive for success. In these new social organisations, men would learn from and love other men. Homo-sociality is illustrated best by the ways the gay community has responded to AIDS, particularly at a time when the disease was thought to be solely a homosexual problem.
Women know more about non-hierarchical organisation from the inside.
I've seen examples of this process in many one-parent families. And the sons respond to the challenge. They know that being an old-style, oppositional, Jurassic man, testing and testing the limits of authority, is only one way to be male. And it's pretty boring. It also has some positive aspects in that rules should be challenged and gathering new knowledge does involve breaking rules.