...This article may appear at first glance, flippant; but on reflection it alludes to a deeper meaning of “imbalance”.

He raises some good points.

Feminism, I think has become a bit like the "reds under the bed" when western societies were looking every where to spot a 'communist' and to prevent communism.

Wally summed the article up perfectly with his RUTD analogy as it applies to modern man and feminism. What's more the same intolerant crucifixion awaits anyone who dares to challenge the orthodoxy of the day

DKit

Peter it is a great credit to yourself that you have expressed the community voice. The ideas you express are the attitudes of the 70odd percent of us who have not matriculated. The issues you raise are the issues mostly of the educated elites.

We know boys fight, men resolve disputes with a quiet voice. Boys are full of action and are afraid of girl germs. Women talk quietly with their men, who listen. Boys play football. Men understand it. Women respect mens right to do that. Men don't condemn others they condemn behaviours and they forgive.
Family men respect and are respected.

Great article Peter West. A+

I think one F was missing. Something that men like to do as much as they can…

Incidentally, Sydney Morning Herald today (4 July) has a letter challenging the often-repeated feminist assertion that "one in three women will be a victim of abuse or violence"
This is some kind of prediction of the future- hardly a statement established after proper research was done and verified. It's hard to be calm when the gender war rages, stoked by mindless people in the media.

Yet another 'F' word that men do is fibbing.

They know full well that they have been swimming in transparent privilege for many centuries. They know full well that they have been (and still are) pampered and supported and cleaned up after by the unpaid labour of the women in their lives. They know full well that the rules of the workplace are still designed for men's lifestyles as breadwinners and kings of their private castles. They know full well that, for every ad that makes a man look foolish, there are a dozen that make women appear vain, frivolous, shallow and sexually rapacious. They know full well that history and much of the culture still sees the world through the male viewpoint and treats women as largely invisible (unless they're naked or scantily clad).

They know full well that the genders do NOT operate on a level playing field.

But they still have to pretend to be so hurt and confused because, after all, they do not belong to the group of men who do all those awful things that all those gender articles complain about. They also pretend that these articles about male sexism are driven by feminist troublemaking, not the natural push-pull factors of a culture in flux.

And one other thing, the author rails against all these many, many media articles about women and male sexism, yet he overlooks the massive number of articles like this one, that appear ad nauseum in the media and on blog forums, as well as the conveyor belt of books published in the 'dispossessed male' genre.

Rest assured that male privilege is alive and well and not going anywhere anytime soon.