I am guilty of taking these things for granted and I appreciate your willingness to share your thoughts on it. I agree that it's not spoken of, nor praised often, and I do know some "scorched earth" feminist women who truly do not appreciate men for any reason - but I'm not one of them.

My children's father served in the Army and was in Iraq at the very beginning of our invasion there. He was also your more stereotypical meat head type. But I certainly appreciated his brute strength when it was necessary.

I have a lot of thoughts on this topic, so maybe I'll write an article to address it more thoroughly.