: By pretending to be the "weaker sex" or victims of society, women shift the burden of responsibility and physical labor onto men.
: Vilar points out that men often have little influence over whether they have children, yet are legally and socially bound to support them for life. Reception and Criticism The Manipulated Man
According to Vilar, women employ specific psychological tools to maintain this dynamic: : By pretending to be the "weaker sex"
: Marriage is framed not as a romantic union but as a "selfish creation" of women. In this view, women use sex as a tool to coerce men into a lifetime of hard labor to support them and their children. In this view, women use sex as a
: Much like Pavlov’s dogs, men are conditioned from a young age to seek female approval, which women dispense only when their own needs are met.