took nine of them to get one ring where it belonged. one of them died, one acted like he was dead to get out of the group for a while, one betrayed the rest, one bitched all the time about the responsibility and the rest was stoned or drunk almost all of the time. sounds like typical men to me, not seeing any feminist angle here
Actually it took two of them, Boromir died protecting two others, Merry and Pippin who ended up in Fangorn forest and conivnced the Ents to attack Isengard weakening Sarumons strength and bringing about his downfall in the main event of things, Pippin then went to Gondor and became a steward, and Merry became a squire of Rohan and even wounded the witch King, Gandalf stayed behind battling an ancient evil that he knew would kill many others of the group, he killed the Balrog of Moria, Durins bain, then returned to Aragorn and began setting up events to weaken Saurons ever growing darkness,. Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli hunted the uruk hai who took Merry and Pippin, they then reunited with Gandalf after learning the halflings where in safe hands, and went to Rohan and aided in the battle of Helms Deep, and then aided in the battle of Pelenor fields against the orc invasion of Mina's Tirith, and then assaulted the black gate distracting Sauron so Sam and Frodo could destroy the one ring
That's one Istari, one Dwarf, one Elf, Two Men, and four Hobbits who did a multitude of things for the betterment of the world, but sure they're just typical men as you say
There was probably someone at some point, but I think this is more of an extrapolation on how 2nd and 3rd wave feminist theory tends to consider women better than men, and as such, denegrate the contributions of men to society.
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