Poriot,
Of course you didn’t answer the question yourself.

Greer has never bothered to gain formal qualifications in the areas she writes about so often in her books, or talks about so often on TV shows and documentaries.

None of the universities that employed her over the decades (and paid her with taxpayer funding), ever required her to gain those formal qualifications.

As well as being a man-hater and feminist, she made the education system into a complete, hypocritical farce.

Perhaps that should be her eulogy.

Found this interesting article on marriage

http://www.backlash.com/book/marriage.html

<According to Shere Hite, marriage is the means by which men dominate women. It's the tool men use to own and control female sexuality. (Women & Love, St. Martin's Press mass market edition, 1989, Shere Hite, p 631) (This must be why women adore weddings.) Trying to have it both ways, however, Hite also asserts many men are "anti-monogamy." (Women & Love, St. Martin's Press mass market edition, 1989, Shere Hite, p 220)

Regardless, if men do use marriage and monogamy to control female sexuality, then we would expect to find the institution of marriage first emerged at about the same time humanity discovered the male role in reproduction. But this is not the case. According to Reay Tannahill, monogamy existed long before>

So rather than regard marriage as being benefical and healthy for both genders, feminists chose to take cases/examples where it was a dysfunctional relationship and then extrapolate those examples as to applying to all marriages.

http://mensnewsdaily.com/2009/11/29/the-myth-of-womens-oppression/

poirot,

'No takers?

Why am I not surprised.....'

Refer to my point about not trying to make women happy because it will never happen.

But the bottom line is when men like the head of the IMF can be brought down soley on the word of a woman then men actually do have something to moan about. In fact, we should be taking a leaf from the feminist book and doing a lot more moaning. It is men who work longer, die earlier, suffer more from alcohol and drug problems etc. There are many indicators suggesting men do a lot worse than women but all we get is articles about 'misogyny' and the 'plight' of women. If you haven't got it by now, our point is that the 'plight' of women is actually pretty damn good and men should be doing a lot more moaning to ensure that they don't continue supporting the sense of entitlement and livestyle claims of modern women.

dane, it's not moaning. It's expressing subjective experiences of oppression and highlighting systematic oppression. There are probably some other catch phrases you could add in, google definitions and purpose of feminist research.

R0bert

vanna, dane, JamesH, rstuart,

RObert makes a good point about feminist expression.

My point about whinging,whining and moaning was in response to vanna's take on Greer, and to demonstrate that both genders do it.

No one, in the last few pages, had any offer of any constructive ideas as to how things could be made a little more harmonious for both genders.

The response instead was reminiscent of that old Warner Bros cartoon where a pack of barking hounds, all in one collective cacophonous jumble, pursue Bugs Bunny into a hollow log. He blithely steps out the other end and then whips the log around so that the exit points over a cliff......well, this is where I step out of this particular OLO (b)log - hope you men remembered to pack your parachutes : )

Poriot,

I know how to make things more harmonious between the genders.

Bring in gender villification laws.

I'm sure the various feminists (and any university that may harbor them) will find themselves in court so often it won't be to their agvantage to continue with their denigration and demonisation of the male gender (regardless of how profitable it may currently be).