How relevant in the 21st century is the following statement Men by their nature are providers and protectors?

Answer 1

It is pure emotional fantasy. There is a problem in interpretation, however. I do not know where you obtained this quote from, but I think I have seen it or something similar to it in a political history discourse by someone famous. Here, we need a clarification as to whether you mean "Men" as generic human beings, or, "Men" as organized societies. Men as generic human beings truly are the providers, but whether we men are genuinely the "protectors" or not depends on a lot of factors. Often enough, we are more interferers with nature and destroyers of natural ecologies. Men as organized societies are usually war-mongering, conquering and destroying forces for our own egocentric aggrandizement. Not necessarily for "good", and usually not. Humans make things at the destructive expense of other life forms. We seldom hold ourselves to account for our destructiveness. For instance, we channel rivers and dam rivers so that when major rains occur, we create our own flooding disasters by interfering with nature! But we also mount military campaigns against other societies to steal what they have and to increase our area of influence! I think that we humans are more "interferors" than "providers". Everything we do disrupts something else, everything we do we ignore that for every action there is a corresponding reaction, and often negative! AND we humans are completely ignoring the fact that we humans are grossly over-populating "our" Earth at great expense not only to the existence of the ecological life forms but in that way to our own existence as well! Just remember Easter Island and how that civilization consumed itself to the point that now only 200 out of maybe 15,000 inhabitants now live there!

Answer 2

The statement may not be as relevant in the 21st century as it once was, as gender roles and expectations have evolved. Both men and women can be providers and protectors in modern society, and these roles are not exclusively tied to gender. It's important to recognize individual skills and strengths rather than assuming based on gender.