ttbn, you're all right because, notwithstanding whatever excellent personal qualities you may be gifted with, you were most expeditiously gifted with a birth date. That meant you got to prosper from the most rapid period of personal productivity growth ever. Your clone might not be so fortunate if he were hatched in the past 30 or 40 years.

waverley, thanks for the kind words.

I wasn't having a go at feminism really, the Caro reference was more intended as a demonstration of really awful writing and an effort to understand the mindset that might have produced it.

The important point I was trying to emphasise is that language is being deliberately chosen to devalue and exclude by people who are, by any measure, extremely privileged and yet claim to define the Centre.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rethinking-men/201010/why-some-people-have-issues-men-misandry

The above is interesting

Then others deny it's existance

http://www.ravishly.com/2015/01/07/myth-misandry-misogyny-oppression-marginalization

In reality though, the average western woman, are the most privileged women in history, apart from the extremely privileged women in the upper classes, or with extremely wealthy dads.

Wolly B

Yes, most of the denigration of men in Australia is coming from academics in universities.

But out of 28 countries, academics in Australia are 8th in terms of rates of pay.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/03/22/new-study-analyzes-how-faculty-pay-compares-worldwide

These academics are among the highest paid taxpayer funded people in the world, and they never stop proclaiming themselves to be victims of men.