pcr thinks the traditional roles were important and their disappearance a problem; 

The Disappearance of the Male Role

Paul Craig Roberts

Over the course of my lifetime I have watched the role of men taken away.  The role of the male as provider, defender, and disciplinarian is no more. It was destroyed by feminists.

To clarify “feminist”:  In the past when I have criticized feminists older women who had careers asked why I thought women shouldn’t have careers.  Their idea is that a feminist is a woman who has a career.  But women have always had careers as mothers, homemakers, grandmothers, school teachers, nurses, secretaries, writers, artists, musicians, scientists, and even spies such as Eve Gordon who made during World War II 112 parachute jumps into occupied Europe. Even in pre-feminist days, one of my aunts despite being married  had a career outside the home. She enjoyed the discipline of getting to work on time, the interaction with other people, and meeting new ones.  

By feminist I mean a person with an ideological agenda of obliterating the difference between men and women.  When I was young men were raised to respect women. When a woman entered a room, the men stood. Doors were opened for women and their entrance proceeded  the man’s. Car doors were opened for women who were helped in and out. At the dining table men stood until the women were seated. In those days men still wore hats. A gentleman passing a lady on the sidewalk was expected to tip his hat in respect. A man who struck a woman or used a four-letter word in a lady’s presence suffered a ruined reputation........more.........