Until the past 50 years or so, women could never say "I don't need a man!", but thanks to all of the progress us men have made in society with automation of most tasks women use to perform to manage a household, women are now like kids in a candy store after thousands of years finally being able to declare that "they don't need a MAN (TM)", they can't help but tell the whole world! However, us men have never needed a woman for our survival or any critical reason for that matter. So men, just know that when a woman says "I don't need a man".. us men NEVER needed a woman. It is only in good times and artificial societies are women allowed to declare such statements.