Everyone suffers, but the metaphor of a pendulum is incredibly ill-fitting, and, quite frankly, pretty offensive to me, when there has never been a time in history when men as a group were denied the right to vote, or a time when women controlled the vast majority of government and corporations. (NOT that this would be a good thing- it would not- just trying to illustrate what a pendulum swinging easily between two points would actually look like).

The metaphor of a pendulum suggests that sometimes men have more of the power, sometimes women have more of the power, but hey, it pretty much evens out in the end.

To me, it's much more like a very heavy box... which started out (at least in the dominant Western civilization) very, very far on the men's side, and which countless people (mostly women) have been pushing, pushing, pushing for hundreds of years. And it's not in the middle yet.