JamesH, with supporters like Maximus who needs detractors? I think I'll leave you guys to it.

Hedgepig,

“ONLY a girl could write The Female Brain and walk away with life and reputation intact. This new book may be contentious, but in fact modern science is merely playing catch-up with what we know intuitively. Girls are different from boys.
Mind-blowing news, huh?”

“Feminism begs to differ, but unisex brain is a fantasy
So, says Janet Albrechtsen, girls and boys are different after all. D'oh”

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20481754-32522,00.html

Country Gal...get off my back..I still think that kids are left home because these days we're not happy for dad to go out to work and The reason we 'have too' have 2 jobs now is because of consumer greed..
We want it all and we want it NOW.2 cars..a new house full of brand new furniture, designer clothes for us and our kids, credit cards for convenience sake..holidays,xmas with ALL the trimmings and all the new fangled gear that technology can provide..
We dont pay for anything anymore it goes onto credit cards etc.

That IS THE ONLY reason that we HAVE TO have 2 jobs...GREED.
We work so hard to keep up with the mortgages and credit card debt we dont have time to breathe let alone spend time with our kids..

Theyre the victims of stupid selfish one eyed parents who know nothing of family values and how to be balanced caring parents.

These pple forget that when theyre children are grown they wont look back at the new fangled gadgets and the house stuffed with the latest fashions and best furniture as theyre most treasured childhood memory..It will be without a doubt that mum and dad took the time and played with them, loved them and were relaxed loving parents.
The way we raise them we are teaching them that the most important thing in their lives is consumer goods..defining themselves with 'things' they can buy..self worth measured by who has the most 'things'.Family values, integrity,love slowly slipping away.

I am a single mum..so dont give that hard luck story about dad etc..
My parents were alcholic and mentally ill and yes I too had a tough life..I had NO childhood and to say I survived and Im still here well yes of course..but thats a dumb eqaution as is yours..makes no sense to say 'didnt hurt me'...glad your fine..but you miss my point.

Trade...You really shouldnt describe the problems tha seperate men and women as a 'war'..it si a bit melodramatic dont you think..?

Such dramtic language does not inspire balanced and ethical debate that provide ideas and comment based in something close the truth for men and women out there...

There is enough drama in our lives without having to drum it up and anyway the battle of the sexes is a little outmoded these days..

I think if each one of us just aspires to live our 'own personal truth' then that should be the most important thing in our lives..

If we are stuck in poisonous relationships we should leave..men and women..but to say we are completely powerless and are victims of Germaines influence over society and outcomes generated by that then we become 'victims' and that implies an unwillingness to take charge and be responsible for our own happiness..
Granted she is a viper...horrid woman ,who as Cornflower I think, left that horrid link of her sinking to her lowest low by showing us that pornographic image,but I think we have to move past Ms Greer and just DECIDE to be happy..thats all it takes..decide and you will be.

But having said that Trade..I do realise that men do need to speak out and take some of their ground back..

The colourful language using terms such as 'war' I dont think however help to bring rational debate and only recruit like minded pple such as yourself, when in fact you should be inviting the 'enemy' ie women in to present alternate and workeble solutions to them as well..only then can you sow the seeds of change.

I am one female out here who fights for the rights of men..but only situationally so..ie:if I happen to witness something that is clearly unfair to a male happening in my presence I will speak up..I dont however approach it as an us and them thing..

I must stress very strongly that although I feel the right of men have been eroded does not mean that my rights or the rights of any female come secondary to that..

balance:) :)

Maybe, it is YOUR reason only, OZGIRL, GREED:

We dont pay for anything anymore it goes onto credit cards etc.

That IS THE ONLY reason that we HAVE TO have 2 jobs...GREED.

Those non-Angloses have NO job at all in a xenophobic racist place called Australia.

Eat IT