Suzeonline,
I'd be too disillusioned to study in an australian University plus I'd miss the company of women too much.

Hey Individual, interesting line:

"...these academic pseudo-intellectual females who don't know why they're here nor what their function is..."

Perhaps you would be so good as to explain why us men are here, and what our function is?

Grim,
If you need to have this explained in the first place then all the explanation in the world won't do. You'd better renew your membership with Germaine's whacko crowd.
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Just about all mammalian life has evolved with 1 part male & 1 part female. To go against that is just plain pointless. The basic thinkers have no problem with that but the pseudo intellectuals do. Why do some whackoes go against that when we really can't do without each other. Go figure.

I agree with the article on most points.

Men and Women are different - and for good reason. Why cant we just accept that and work on each others strengths, rather than weaknesses.

As far as Advertisments on television are concerned, I am sick of seeing men portrayed as bumbling idiots. Dont women make mistakes? A women is offended when her man looks at another women and is chastized on the adds. I say it doesnt matter where he gets his appetite, as long as he comes home for dinner. If you accept this and talk about it with your partner, you will be much happier - start pointing out the good looking girls and see what he does!

Men have become afraid of being men. Men who become childcare workers and teachers are viewed with suspicious eyes. Men who say they help out around the house are somehow branded as "sissys". They are branded by both sides of the coin.

Why not celebrate the differences - work on the strengths of both sexes instead of trying to tear each other apart.

As a women, I appreciate my partners view of life - it gives me something to ponder on. I may not change my view, but at least I have another view to compare with.

Long live Men and Women. After all, it would be a small world with only one gender.

Suzieonline wrote; "it certainly made a change from the predominantly negative attitudes towards women from the beginning of time!
I believe this anti-female attitude is still the dominant feeling in our world today"

How does she know what the attitudes at the beginning of time were towards women were?

Maybe she has a time machine or is the oldest living human. Otherwise her attitude, is formed by reading other peoples opinions.

It was once thought that in the Victorian era of the stern non expressive male, it would appear that this perception is incorrect.

Generally the past is judged by todays values, this leads to what is known as a values conflict.

Hollywood, and authors of fiction, produce what sells, and of course this does bias our opinions and ideas, even though most people would not be aware of the subtle effects such fiction have on their ideas and beliefs.

Yes, the 'woman-as-competent-and-slightly-narked and man-as-buffoon-and-slightly-unhinged' ads every five minutes 24/7 for years on end does get irritating.

Obviously it's nonsense to talk about equality of the sexes if you need a whole lot of clamps and wires to restrain men from out-competing women, and to extort men to pay for women to have the best of both worlds.

And if in the absence of this whole raft of laws biased unequally against men's interests and freedoms, men and women would not have equal relations, then they're obviously not equal in the first place and there's no reason why policy should give women the benefit of a double standard.

The rest is self-serving hypocrisy by which anything favouring women's particular interest is dubbed "fairness" and "right" and men's interests are reviled