I'm getting in early so I can win 'Transphobe of the year 2023'
Joking aside, we've seen in the past decades, although I'd argue a century at least, how women's roles have changed in WESTERN society. The result, increased depression and stress rates, lower birth rates, more people maiming themselves to 'turn into a woman' and truly evil amounts of abortions each year.
And part of the problem is shifting the concept of femininity, if you ask the feminists you seem to get a response of being a man-whore (acting with behaviours associated with men along with free to sleep around with no attachments), the left say it can be applied to anyone that identifies as female (which is why they try to shift goal posts to include men with femininity) and the right at least focuses on being a competent mother first.
We can all see how this has translated in our media, we went from supporting wives and girlfriends caring for the kids while helping their man overcoming their enemies to women being invincible warriors and all men are dumb so why be tied down to one.
I think a lot of this push to change what femininity means comes from a fundamental aspect of it, it has an element of submission to it. Not in a full 'Handmaid's tale' that feminists like to jerk off to, but there seems to an element of willingly placing yourself behind a man and supporting him in life, something that is consitently mocked and belittled in western media and social media now.
It's one aspect of why western media is dying because of what they portray isn't femininity but men in female skinsuits. I'll stop it here so it doesn't become an essay but I do think the rejection of femininity is one aspect of our current societal collapse.
Femininity is a soft strength, a nurturing and caring endurance. The strength of a woman that they are seeking is not her ability to be a brash asshole that beats the living fuck out of everyone and everything, but to endure all that life throws at her and remain herself. When she fights, it is for cause and only ever to protect.
The same can be said of a man, the strength he exhibits is to impress and protect, to be gentle despite his ability to destroy. When he fights, it is to protect that what he has and wants.
To do any less is childish and should be taught out of them.
Knowledge and care temper their different roles and allows them to bend without breaking their parts.
Yes, many of the issues caused by lack of male role models is that many boys where not taught how to place restraints on their strength unless it was a last resort or a fair competition.
Though while that's clear, I'm now trying to come up with female role models they can copy and, well, it might be worse at least in western media
This brings to mind the concept of "Aegis"; war but only in defense of one's home and family.
In ancient Greece, there were two gods of war; Ares and Athena, male and female. While Ares embodies war and aggression, Athena embodies Aegis.
(I don't have a full summary of the term, but it might be worth looking into as a dichotomy between masculine and femenine).