My inherent respect and admiration comes from my father dying when I was 10 and watching my mother try to take care of my sister and me. That knowingness makes it hard for me to want to have children in a relationship. My poor mother died penniless and I never made enough to provide profound support; she resided in the back of my mind as someone I needed to care for in an emergency. I lived in situations, where I could not house her. I have empathy and respect, but I also have sadness. Women can make themselves up and speak with heightened/positive intonations despite depression, which I am very aware of and amazed by, but it also makes me feel impotent because I am not rich. Men inherently admire and love women, but their reactions to them are either masochistic or sadistic. I don’t understand the sadistic approach. I think it stems from wanting something and disposing of the responsibility of having it. Women are not just objects of beauty, but they are also human beings with the same ambitions and bodily functions as men. I do think that our economic and social systems can affect the male psyche. Men, who feel powerless may learn to hate women because they are too “expensive” for them, and thus empathy and respect is diminished and at times violently reacted to as women appear to quash freedom. Women are inherent arbiters of male self-respect.