>> He's been trained from birth by the feminist society to fail.>>
I don't think that's to blame. Shakespeare had Romeo threaten suicide to Juliet if he's to be without her love, and that's written hundreds of years before our "feminist society" time period and was understood by the audience back then just as we can understand it today.
I think it's part of the human condition down through the ages. The difference is nowadays we understand that such things are not about love, but about fear, that is, to have these "control freak" traits which that ad exec displayed in order to try and coerce what he wanted from others, and his problem was in not overcoming that trait or even recognizing that he was the problem all along.
These are character flaws that he, like many others, develop in order to cope. But they're not healthy ways to cope. There are better ways, but that means change, and people are loathe to change. It's easier to make excuses then to change, so that's why you hear people blame someone else instead of taking responsibility for their actions ("He made me do it!" and "Now look what you made me do!"), or fault your parents, or fault society, or fault the ex, or simply feign helplessness like you're some newborn with the all too common: "I can't help it! That's just the way I am!".
This is the lesson to learn from his story. It's not about her, it's about being a man and knowing how to walk in this world upright. To become a stronger man, not an insecure chump who burns down homes out of spite, who blames his ex for not wanting to deal with his crap any longer, who feigns pretenses to try and maneuver her back. Like the saying goes, "Don't wish it was easier. Wish you were tougher". His ex, and society, are not to blame for how he decided to handle things.
