Self-Proclaimed Protectors

The men who least have any power over women are always the ones--in direct inverse proportion--who proclaim their sex dominates the fairer. Where it is least true, where the men are most down in the order of things, they must maintain and push the illusion of power over women, when the reverse is most obviously true. "The persistence of this illusion is astonishing", but it is explained by the least powerful needing to console themselves with the fantasy of power, while being so out of touch with the real truth of things that their view cannot hope ever to be reconciled with reality.