If women try to strive for the same equality as men, they will simply put themselves in a more vulnerable position. Trying to assimilate to men will simply do more harm than good to women. Additionally, women can live a life where they don't have to prove themselves and simply live a happy and prosperous life. But men, on the other hand, must think about proving and defending who they are and what they can be capable of. Theroux had determined that “it is normal in America for a man to be dismissive or even somewhat apologetic about being a writer,” but why is this so? Masculinity is something that men have had to prove time and time again and has been defined as a certain standard that corresponds to what is masculine and what is not. Men find it difficult to be tenacious in the society in which we live. There is not much to do, the action has been accomplished and the roles have been defined. Women don't realize that men's lives are not easy to live. It's much more difficult for men than for women. Like men, women have multiple paths to follow as a homemaker, career, mother, and wife. Men have only had one thing, as it always has been, to protect and provide in order to prove their masculinity. Women take on the easier, less threatening roles and let men do the more dangerous tasks. The role of men is always to dominate everything. It is proven that men are the stronger and smarter sex, which can be proven scientifically based on research. But men benefit very little from it, because they only reap the crumbs from the heavy burden that society imposes on their lives.