In order to be important to anyone else, men have to do, women simply have to be.

This writer points out that men die or are injured on the job at a rate twenty times that of women, but when women's job injuries recently went up by a small percentage, this was treated as a scandal, even though the reason was that the recession had eliminated male jobs so that there were fewer men to have things smash them.

Her observations on the pervasive devaluing of men is worth listening to, if only because it truly is politically incorrect and no one ever says it: