Men Needing Women? - NYTimes.com I am dismayed and disheartened to see The Times publish "Why Men Need Women" (Sunday Review, July 21). While I appreciate the importance of social scientific research on gender dynamics, Adam Grant perpetuates outmoded, static notions of gender identity and, further, objectifies women. The very notion that we must consider why men "need" women rests upon the problematic, antiquated notion that women exist to serve men. The article's conclusions would be much more compelling and potentially useful if Mr. Grant at least acknowledged and worked through these assumptions, but that the article doesn't do so suggests blind spots far too large for this argument to be taken seriously.