Couldn't help yourself could you Poirot. But I must thank you for making 3 good points for me:

1. robert - you are such a patsy that even women ridicule you.

2. boys make tree houses. Girls stay out in the rain.

3. women, and I'm assuming you see yourself as a woman (after being so derogatory to us 'boys'), are mostly found in the kitchen. Maybe it was you who 'invented' the chocolate chip cookie?

Dane,
Men would make the tree house, (as they have built every building on the planet to my knowledge).

A feminist would then move in and describe it as being too patriachial and oppressive of women.

Au contraire, dane.....RObert would be regarded as a "man" who realises that good communities encourage cooperation between both genders in all areas.

Listening to you and vanna is like being back in a primary school playground. This forum comprises nearly all blokes - thank goodness they don't all carry on like you two.

Poirot,
I'll have to remember to talk very feminist like, without mentioning words such as "lady" or "gentleman", or "husband" or "wife".

Or father.

I agree that we should encourage cooperation between genders. So how come you're criticising me (and males) rather than the misandry in the article? How about you make a post criticising the article for not helping attempts for both genders to get along?

Or should both genders only get along when men are saying something women don't like?

Judging from your references to tree-houses, boys and primary schools, you find homely references comforting. Don't feel bad, many women do. But if you find my direct style of writing difficult to understand, let me know and I'll try to make it a bit more homely for you. I've started just in case:

Once upon a time, a mum was in her kitchen cooking cookies when a packet of choc chips fell off the shelf into the mixing bowl...

dane,

Maybe you're the ones who should respond to the article in a more thoughtful manner. You and vanna tar all women with the same brush - you're no different to the article writer....and no I certainly don't agree with all feminist rants.

Do either of you ever stop to think that industrialisation was always on a collision course with female emancipation and a shift in the paradigm - one thing lead(s) to the other.

You don't intimidate me with references to homely....I like homely and I can even be twee when it suits me.