Ah, but it is a joke. He just doesn’t get it.

Every civilization has periodic moral panics over fears that men are becoming wusses. This is nothing new or unique to the recent brand of feminism. People are confused about gender roles when they have the luxury of idleness because idleness confuses people about many things. The more of it there is, the more confused they will be.

Think of the times in your life you’ve been in a struggle for survival. The last thing on your mind was whether or not whatever it was you did to keep breathing was appropriate or going to have some far reaching impact on your society. You were just trying to stay alive.

Because we live a voluntarily austere lifestyle, I’m the one who makes the bread because I’m the one with the right skills to do that. My ex can do laundry very well, but aside of that, he does the man chores…stuff that requires brute strength and complicated mechanical skills. We’re both physically and mentally capable of doing it all on our own if we have to, but who does what better is important when if things don’t get done in a timely manner, nobody gets to eat, or the place might get flooded or something.

People don’t know what they’re supposed to do when they’re distanced from the natural everyday business of sustaining and basically justifying their continued existence. This would describe the average westener, as well as non western people whose standard of living has reached a point where they have a choice.

As far as people living phony lives, one has to remember the nature of such beasts. If they were thrust into a situation where they didn’t have people telling them what to do, they would self destruct.

Some recent study on the brain has pretty much proven that there is no such thing as thoughtless action or a thought that occurs outside the realm of a person’s capability for thinking it. Some spiritual people would argue for the possibility of divine inspiration, but even if it were so, the person’s ability to understand it would be limited to their ability to perceive it.

So if God/Hera/Isis/Flying Spaghetti Monster/Bob/… told someone, “You do not kill,” as a metaphysical statement, some would interpret that as a commandment not to kill, some not to kill people, some not to kill any living thing.

So you are correct that feminism did not ruin society. Society ruined feminism.

…by the same, game will not ruin men, but men can definitely ruin game.