Squeers,

Just on your pertinent point about "window dressing". Perhaps the whole of life really is just preparation for and enactment of one long drawn out mating dance. While I believe you are spot-on that women go to extraordinary lengths to enhance themselves to attract and keep a mate. It's also true that men go to the same lengths to provide and decorate their contribution to the dance - the security and prestige they offer a mate in the form of shelter. There's little difference between Max Factor and places like Bunnings in the scheme of things in the Western world.

Have you noticed that any attempt to intellectualize sex always ends up in a dead end or a dry gulch?

Let's face it, humans are little more than over-sexed, violent, greedy apes who wear clothes in a vain attempt to hide their primitive, primate foundations.

If humans adopted universal nakedness, much would be revealed! There would be far more grunting and far less pseudo-intellectual waffle.

http://dangerouscreation.com

WmTrevor,
I wouldn't have picked you for a misanthrope, but a feminist certainly, as am I. Unlike Jocelynne and co(-opted), I'm a radical feminist.

Poirot,
I'll have to get back to you on that soon as I can.

Actuuallly, Squeers, I'm thinking that men are often cajoled by their women to "attend" to the upkeep or renovate, etc. But I'm wondering if their compliance is more to them than merely a way to ward off nagging. Men are adept at creating and building. Does it satisfy some innate vanity or is it the best way to keep a mate?

Is it any different to a woman refurbishing herself and her wardrobe, for example? If a woman becomes slovenly in appearance or doesn't attend to the aesthetics of the house, her mate is likely to look elsewhere. If a man decides not to play the game - fails to provide security, upkeep or renovation, then he might risk his mate looking to greener pastures.

You may not have picked it because of my amateur status since I just don't think I'm very good at it so far, but as a means of treating males and females equally, Squeers, misanthropy is a good start.

Though I do find it helpful that, in their commentary on OLO, some posters are making my attempts at disliking people very much easier.

WmTrevor,

I knew there was a reason I liked you. I'm a part-time misanthropist myself. People are rather trying sometimes.

I remember after reading "Ring of Bright Water", I fancied moving to Scotland and living amongst the alders and heather with no-one around for miles. That scenario sat quite happily at the back of my mind for yonks. (but I am a bit of a day-dreamer : )

Squeers,

"...I'm a radical feminist."

Okay, what's your platform?