The narrative is so firmly entrenched in non-egalitarian and gender-superior feminism that the dogma has become absolutist drivel.

And it should remain as such, except that it is so powerful that victimhood can only be claimed by those anointed and blessed by the puritanical clergy: most of whom seem to be angry women.

Iron John's Robert Bly gave a talk way back in 1998. He said that feminism had lost its way, had decreed that men were no longer needed in the raising of children.

He said that men were considered toxic.

Pity, he said. Fathers are important, even more so to sons, hungry if not desperate for positive male role models. With no fathers, boys will initiate each other into their manhood...often with risk, more often with violence.

Men need to be invited back into families.

But that won't happen, he said, until women define their dark side.

That brought outrage from many feminists in the audience who tried to shout him down.

"We don't need no Sigmund Freud or some other misogynist psychiatrists to define women's dark sides!"

They took a breath.

Bly hit back.

"Like many feminists, you didn't listen."

"I said it was time for women to define their dark side."

And so it remains.