We've heard countless times men and even a few enlightened women lamenting how women are never truly happy.

How they're insecure, never satisfied, always displaying a hunger for more. Forever searching, clamoring for that certain "something" or "next thing" that will "make me happy," to no avail.

We read countless treatises by men, saying how no matter what he does for his woman, it's never enough. She keeps raising the bar, moving the goal post, in this seemingly psychotic endeavor to acquire that which is beyond her grasp.

I suspect in the distant past, when living in clan or tribal communities, preferential treatment afforded to women was strictly limited to protectionism. In other words, protectionism in the event of a clear threat. If a bear lumbered into camp, or invading tribe hit the scene, understandably, women were protected first, for the survival/growth of the tribe. But I suspect that's where female "favoritism" stopped dead in it's tracts. I suspect in all other aspects of tribal/clan life, women were held fully accountable and responsible, which benefited everyone... especially women. Consequently, even though life was undeniably tougher, I suspect they (women) actually experienced a capacity for EXPERIENCING real happiness much more then than they do now.

Why?

Because in every other aspect of tribal/clan life, besides limited protectionism, women were held self-responsible, fully-accountable to their place and role in the community. They EARNED their capacity to experience happiness.

Limited exceptions aside, men, compared to women, in the aggregate, have always understood and have lived the concept of self-responsibility. It's indoctrinated in us from a young age, expected by society in general and this expectation has gone on largely unchanged.

Why are modern women so clearly unhappy? Why are they more anxious, depressed, taking medications and pursuing other treatments more than any other time in history? What has robbed women of the capacity for happiness?

Some will say women do experience happiness. However, happiness can be easily confused with other feelings and emotions:

Women do experience euphoria, say, when they acquire that expensive item or engage in certain activities. They experience excitement, say, when they take that exotic trip or other stimulating endeavor. They experience enjoyment and/or pleasure upon getting married, having have a child, or showing off their newly-acquired possessions to their peers...

But are these mind states reflective of real, consistent happiness? No. They are feelings and emotive states that are FLEETING, and tend to dissipate and disappear just as quickly as they came, leaving women in an inexplicable state of emptiness they just don't understand. Maybe, just maybe, for women, chasing after these fleeting states of mind is easily mistaken for the path to happiness. However, like a mirage on the horizon, happiness, for them, never materializes.

Consequently, we see women looking at the men in their lives. Confused, they see men experiencing consistent happiness, while, inexplicably, they are not.

An example:

"She sees him come home after a hard day's work...exhausted, he changes into more comfortable clothes, quickly heats up leftover food and promptly sits and watches a ball game on TV. She sees he's exhausted, but she also sees...HE'S HAPPY."

She wonders with dumbfounded awe, "how can he be so happy with so little, sitting there eating half-cold spaghetti watching TV?"

She cannot conceptualize the common denominator to his happiness and her lack of it.

So, what do women do? They try to fill their vacuous voids of inner-discontent through materialism and hyper-consumption (women make 85% of retail purchases). They reflexively react by invading male spaces, hoping in vain, that somehow, some way, the capacity for happiness will suddenly materialize in them by osmosis, and if not, they attempt to rob men of it through invasive, caustic methods and go on the attack with radical feminist tactics and behaviors. "If I'm not happy, fuck him, I'm going to make sure he's not happy." Women may not consciously say the latter, but their behavior SCREAMS IT.

Until women understand a person who's been coddled and crippled with preferential treatment and favoritism will remain feeling unfulfilled...

Until women understand a person who's been given unneeded and unhealthy perks, handouts and advantages leaves them with a vacuous void of inner discontent...

Until women understand a person who's been afforded wheel-greasing, door-opening public and private programs and services ROBS them of developing critical self-efficacy, self-responsibility and self-esteem...

They will continue on their path of self-destruction. Unconscious or not, they'll continue to make themselves and everyone in their direct presence uncomfortable, confused, and at times, outright miserable. Not because of malice, but because they continue to choose to blind themselves of the underlying truth behind their unhappiness.