This is wrong too. Women are NOT the responsibility of men. It is something far more subtle and will have to be written about and explored in some other way. What I can say is that the relationship is something akin to a male gorilla leading his troop to new feeding grounds or a military unit leader leading his troops to safety while under fire from the enemy. It's somewhere in that ballpark where the leader is meaningless without the troops and the troops survival is dependent on the competence of the troop leadership. Neither the woman, nor the troops nor the gorilla harem are actual responsibilities of the lead male. It just isn't the correct analogy at all. More to the point, I have been working with some VERY wealthy and successful female entrepreneurs over the last few years. While they are all women, they all lead poorly and all of our usual critiques can be made of them, NEVER underestimate the power of a woman. I have been forced to come to the conclusion, much like my general derisive tone of your statements, is that men have a leadership role but it is a much more complicated and sophisticated relationship. Instead, a woman is NOT the responsibility of a man, a woman is THE MOST VALUABLE ASSET AND TEAM MEMBER that a man can have. The women that I have completed work for really opened up my eyes to how competent and skilled in some unreal ways women can be. While the man has a leadership role, the leadership role is not that of a parent taking care of a toddler. It is far closer to a competent leader of a military unit leading his troops to safety. A leader of a unit is important, but only as important as his competence and can be removed from leadership (plus or minus some discretion for the analogy not being a perfect way to explain what is going on) with the discretion of their team members. When a white man undervalues his white woman for her rightful role as part of the fighting force of his tribe he undermines his own tribes strength.