Oceans of ink and thousands of hours of television had made it abundantly clear that a man was expected to make his woman’s happiness his top priority because she deserved it (or he wasn’t a real man). If someone demanded that a woman reciprocate such devotion by putting her man first, however, legions of man-hating shrews would have screamed, “Misogyny!” and argued that whoever believed such politically incorrect heresy was trying to “set back the women’s rights movement,” and was guilty of trying to return The West to the Fifties or “the Dark Ages,” or whenever it was that they deemed the
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