Mama’s Boys to Male Feminists: Who A Man Is, Based On The Women He Dates
Dominant Part II
Another family dynamic that could lead a man to prefer dominant women is having parents in which the mom wore the pants. As much as we all hate this Freudian, limiting school of thought: your parents make up an overwhelming majority of what your thoughts and feelings about relationships are. You tend to aspire to have a relationship just like theirs, or the opposite to theirs, but either way, their relationship shapes yours. If your mom wore the pants, then there was a certain feminist air in your house and your male role model showed you to be submissive to women. Again, similar to the younger brother syndrome, you’re comfortable around a woman who makes decisions for you. That is familiar for you and the truth is, we tend to go with what is familiar to us. Whether it’s something we actually like is irrelevant.
