The issue of gender equality has once again risen to the top of the public's attention. This issue has been a recognized problem for thousands of years with one of the oldest attempts to handle it involve cultural myths.
From The Seven Story Tower by Curtiss Hoffman: “...the function of [some myths] is to delineate a societal...problem: the propensity for adolescent males to commit hybris when confronted with the feminine. This argument suggests that every culture will need to develop myths...as a means of regulating male behavior... We must grant that this is a common problem, one which many males in our own society never outgrow. This might cause us to wonder whether the rates of abuse of women are so high...because we lack such a myth.”
From The Seven Story Tower by Curtiss Hoffman: “...the function of [some myths] is to delineate a societal...problem: the propensity for adolescent males to commit hybris when confronted with the feminine. This argument suggests that every culture will need to develop myths...as a means of regulating male behavior... We must grant that this is a common problem, one which many males in our own society never outgrow. This might cause us to wonder whether the rates of abuse of women are so high...because we lack such a myth.”
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