Sorry Rio, that is simply feminist myopia. Failure is not an option for men at all. Men get away with nothing. Men are expected to succeed by other men, by society and by women. It is how we are judged. It is how we are valued. Men’s marriage rates are linearly correlated to how much they make. Men’s standard of living is soly based on their own earnings (men don’t marry up, women do), men’s ability to date, have sex, relationships, marriage and children are all directly correlated to their success, women’s are not. Don’t tell me men get away with anything let alone “so much more”. When men fail they don’t get to date and their only problem is not that they don’t have the money to take a trip around the world. Their entire existence is threatened, there is no fall-back, there is in fact no nothin’ until they climb back and succeed.

Maybe Barbara should take a step back and try to understand what it is like to be a man in the world and business, I know I and other men are wholly tired after spending a decade or more trying to understand and accommodate the challenges of being a woman in the world and business the utter lack of concern or insights women like Barbara have made towards men. Moreover, blaming failure or attitudes towards your failure on some “special” challenge you face as a woman not only is a disservice to men, it gets women no where in solving their failures or attaining success. But sure, if they want to blame it on the “insecure alpha male” at lunch and the “unfair” way in which women are supposedly judged on their success or failure, more power to them. Because it won’t empower them at all.