Woman: Tamer of Men

First, she flatters the hell out of him by choosing him as the man to impregnate her. What sheer elation this flattery is!; not because it means sex(though that too), but because this flattery is the highest form that can be bestowed upon a man(or especially a boy) by a member of the opposite sex, whose attention himself and all his peers have wanted but thought either out of their reach or, in his case, marred by a general disdain for women excepting this one. Thusly flattered, he does so almost unquestioningly. Then when the baby is born and he begins to wonder what he has gotten himself into and whether he can even handle it, she bids him to task in a way that assures him "you can do it.." and in a way that gives him even the will to do so along with the confidence. Discounting maybe an exceptional moment or two, what he sees looking down at his offspring usually is... a baby; he doesn't even like those. But what he sees looking upon her nursing and holding the baby to her bare skin is a bond that he knows he can never touch but one that he can promote and protect. That becomes an end and purpose in itself. She offers him her chastity as ongoing motivation and as a continued gesture of confidence in him. And what can a man offer a woman more worthy of her chastity than a sincere and forthright effort to father her children, and what motivation to man can be more powerful than a woman's chastity? She reaches out her hand to him and offers him her tenderness to soften his heart and cultivate his love for the child(as if some of what transpires between a mother and child can be transferred to him by touch). What a fool he is who thinks himself so self-reliant and confident that he turns down this tenderness. He will feel it for sure when she stops offering! He will know that what was offered was no invitation to join her in weakness, but an invitation to share with her in the task that her heart can touch in a way his never fully can. Irreplaceable.