It's not about keeping women down. It's about keeping us aging and overweight men up. Have you any idea how emasculating it is to encounter an assertive and self-assured women twenty years younger? Walk a mile in our shoes before throwing stones.
I feel for you, buddy - and I'm a woman. I've had to work with these women, too, and they're bitches from hell. Real women are women know who they are - they don't have to prove anything to anybody. They have confidence in themselves and their abilities and go on their own power.
It's the women who put on their little black business uniforms, compete viciously with men AND with other women - they're the ones you have to watch. They've been convinced that they must morph themselves into manhood to be worthy. I'm not saying they're not smart, they are - they just don't know who they are and they are
NOT self-assured. That's why they have to get on this warpath to be noticed and accepted as equals to men. Shit - these women are so rabid they'd slit your throat in less than a heartbeat if they thought it would advance them a step higher.
I've worked for both kinds of women so I know what I'm talking about.