James H
I would think the most necessary thing for anyone about to write a book on gender would be to study biology for at least 2 years, and then to equate the current human population to what nature has determined.

The war is not between men and women, but actually between nature and feminism, and nature always wins.

Always.

we don't need to change the language just because some people are resistant to changing power structures.

Pelican,
I don't 'believe' in anything and I wouldn't dream of misrepresenting you.
I'm not interested in equality because the system stinks to high heaven. Western countries like Australia squabbling over the distribution of wealth is like the court of Louis the XIV dividing up the snuff.
By achieving greater equity in the wealthy west we merely weather the whole decadent affair against criticism from within and without. This has been the hard lesson learnt by the post-Marxists.
Oh yes, just another mad lefty-greeny-feminazi according to the ideology of the last several decades--as tough and thoughtful as a pair of old boots!
Apologies to Gelfer on behalf of the mostly pitiful standard of intellectualism in this thread (myself excluded of course).
Socrates' wise dictum, "the unexamined life is not worth living", applies to whole cultures too.

Squeers, well reiterated.

Hey all,

I've found this little debate quite interesting as I've just started studying sociology. In my textbook at the end of every chapter there is the "feminist perspective" which often raises some good points, but usually can be summed up as men = dominant bastards. Now that's just a bit silly people, and we all know this is false from our own experience.

I also had the oppurtunity to talk to a feminist recently, and I must say the converation went downhill pretty quickly. Instead of talking about things in a civil way and discussing the interesting issues, it soon turned into her trying to force feed me an understanding of my own inherent evil. Now that's just not cool.

Feminism no doubt has some relevent and worthy insights, but when it turns into a justification for blatant sexism it's gone far enough.

Men = dominant bastards is far to simple an equation to hold much water in such a complex world.

"Men = dominant bastards is far to simple an equation to hold much water in such a complex world."

It would be far too simple and feminists are not saying that. It seems be only men saying that about feminists saying that.