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It would be awesome to have a woman like Faile who would want to box with me and expect me to fight back Even though I'm like a Two Rivers guy who would never hurt a woman
There are some women like that out there *cough cough* me *cough*
I think there's one aspect that's being overlooked. At the end of the Second Age, many men went mad. Bad men! I think there was a paradigm shift in the third age in that the women could be trusted to be in control more than men, in general. The system is more of a matriarchy like some American Indian tribes. And that's where you find the superiority complex that some women, especially women who wield the One Power, display. The men, even those that DON'T wield the One Power in the third age, kind of get lumped into the "not to be trusted" category by default.
This!!! Parallel's the Adam and Eve story for Christianity today and the whole "men are the head of the household" nonsense
Although Aran Cherubim said it better than I, I do like looking at the parallel of the breaking of the world to the mythology in our society - In WOT, the men did something bad, and all men are blamed for it and lumped in with them, so the women are trusted to be in charge. In our society's mythology, Eve ate the apple, causing "the breaking," all women were lumped in with her, and so men had to be trusted to run everything.
Its easy to blame entire groups for the actions of a few people, and Jordan might have been trying to show how a society or even a culture can form around one idea like that. Look at the way cultures form around religions all over the world.
I personally like the "take charge" attitudes of the women in WOT for the most part. I think they have a lot to offer the reader about stepping into a role for the sake of duty and growing into that role and responsibility. Except maybe Faile. Maybe.
And sometimes the men are just plain wool-headed. :P
This!!