Mark,

You are a clever bloke, i would like to see your other less trivial articles.

Not a fan of this one, could not even read it through.

Forget the Old boilers on the soapbox, she needs a position in the matter so she can gain support or controversy, sell a few books, and feel worthwhile. She is a modern, fiscally wise woman who knows how to cash in on a market. Good on her for making a dollar, but not at our expense

Best thing to do is ignore them. Dozens of losers like Dowd come to the health resort where I work. No one wants them and men are solely to blame according to them. Some even hung out with that nutcase Greer

Sad, very sad

MEN are 'males' and WOMEN are 'females'

Just how it was mean't to be ! meant and designed to complement each other in beautiful harmony, and in the lofty act of pro-creation.

In isolation, we are frail, well.. there are some diehards who will 'be strong in their loneliness' just for the sake of proving they can be, but such are better left alone to wallow in their misery.

This does not apply to those who for whatever reason wish to have a mate but do not find one.

Feminism came..and is almost gone, whacky doo/ho hum. Males and females will endure forever.

When man and woman take their places in the Authority pattern laid down in Scripture, and work together for the gloy of God, the basic harmony which occurs with the natural human union now transcends that and becomes a little bit of heaven on earth. (at least until the next fight :)

Scout,Laurie and company, you can pick up your eyeballs now which fell on the floor after my last paragraph :) and take a quick vallium because you KNOW this is 'me' :)

I can hear the grumblings.."Christian Sharia" :)

The conundrum of woman is as confounding to men as it is to women themselves. They’re no scarier to men than they appear in any mirror, or … to each other.

Men slipping in and out of misogyny (used to be love) should be a perfectly understandable position when reading Maureen Dowd and having a good look around. The really scary bit, is that men themselves have revoked their own rights to walk away in cases of clear and present danger. They have either enacted or supported laws similar in effect to their own chemical castration and deserve no less than what’s coming.

Seeker
Are you blaming men for Feminism? They have been away working since the Industrial Revolution; on average, 30 miles from the home for more than a century. Women have been at home, with the family & in touch with each other. They have always been better off & consequently, the connectedness & culture of women is stronger. It enables networking, further improvement of their position; ie. Feminism. Women had so much free time in fact, they managed to kid themselves that they were missing out by not being at work.
Men of course, have been too distracted & enjoy pretty well the same rights they had back in 1901. They have almost no dedicated services whereas women have so many you would be forgiven for thinking they must all be disabled. Hence, Feminism is just a religion & ppl like MS Dowd are fanatics. Feminism is based in mythology & is blind to any view but its own. It has no end-point or sense of equality. Eventually, it will devour itself & we will no longer have to watch Ally McBeal.

Nostra
"men" are to a degree responsible for feminism.

The problem is.. 'which' men and in what circumstances ?

In the case of one of the founding 'mothers' of feminism, Mary Wolstencraft, she had a tyranical, domineering and abusive father, so her writings are a reflection of that...

This is a lot like the whacky 'gun control' and 'accident victim' syndrome.

Some relative or child or parent gets killed in a Port Arthur situation, and so, to make their life 'mean' something people go off on a tangent and say "Lets get all weapons removed from the community"
rather than looking at the disturbed mental condition of the perpetrator who otherwise might have used some other equally effective method to slaughter people.

Then, we have the accident victim "I now want the maximum speed limit to be 50km/hour on the highways... so many lives will be saved" Kind of thing.

Before you know it, there is a 'movement'. Otherwise meandering directionless lives suddenly have a 'cause' and because this cause implies they will have power over others if successful, they feel true meaning and power, an existential 'rush' if you will.

So sad that the basic male female thing has been turned into a social monster by certain aggrieved people.