Women can afford the luxury of complaining about the "male obsession" with problem solving precisely because men have solved, and continue to solve, the problems of survival. So how should men respond to this? Is the male ideology wrong for focusing on problem solving? That depends. Do women want a hut with a view, or a house?
Men's primary activities are largely defined by what they believe women want. If women valued listening skills more than problem-solving skills, men would listen, and we could all live in huts. But women value solved problems and houses more than huts and sympathetic masculine ears, so men are consummate problem solvers and society is the better for it.
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