Cheryl,
Andrea Dorkin said she was a lesbian and then married a homosexual man. I have no idea of the rules of engagement in that relationship.

She also claimed that when she was married to a heterosexual man she was drugged, raped and beaten. This was denied and it was said to her on many occasions that if she was drugged, raped and beaten then she should report the matter to the police. She never did, but continued to claim that she was drugged raped and beaten in various books and articles.

She also made many other claims that were never proven and eventually a number of publishers refused to publish her works for fear of libel, but her works were still required reading in various feminist courses in universities throughout the world.

CJ. Morgan
Once again you have proven that you can make a post with no mention of the topic. I think that about 80% of your posts are this way, and you seem to have a total preoccupation with a HRS and a Timkins.

You couldn't have been any further from the truth CJ.

Linda (the tinker) was out here on a working visa and when that expired she went back to Ireland. Then I moved and we lost contact. Nothing as dark or sinister as that you are so fond on implying.

WHY AREN'T THERE ENOUGH "GOOD MEN"?
Women are suffering because of men refusing to 'pop the question'.

Many 30-something professional women have been single for years, or dating a man for years, only to have him dump her, just as her fertility alarm clock rings?

Why aren't there enough 'good men'?

Reason 1: THE MARRIAGE STRIKE
Men know marriage means long years of long hours, with the main burden of the family's mortgage... no work-life balance!

ABS figures show that FATHERS work 5hrs a day LONGER than mothers in paid "Work"-work. She does more "house"-work... but while he "PAYS" for the kids, she "PLAYS" with them.

Men also know that 50% of marriages end in divorce. Wife gets the kids... and whoever gets the kids, gets everything else.

Who'd ever rationally decide to become a father with these penalties?
Men are rationally deciding NOT TO MARRY.

THE MARRIAGE STRIKE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_strike

Reason 2: SCHOOL DISCRIMINATION AGAINST BOYS
To become a lawyer or other professional (a 'good') man you have to go to Uni first.

Girls wanting a good man are have to ask where the male uni students? Two-thirds of uni students are girls now... These professional women mostly will want a suitable 'good' professional husbands.

'Til the 1980's boys and girls got almost the same average mark at year 12. But then changes to curricular and classroom techniques led to girls surging ahead... and boys falling behind.

By 1996, Boys average mark was 7% below girls in NSW... Did the Education Departments start promoting boys' education? No! They stopped recording the results by gender!

Despite repeated FOI requests, NSW claims to not have the data of boys' and girl's year 12 results since 1996!

Innocent young boys are being failed out of our schools, and educationalists are carefully hiding their failure.

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Failing boys at school means insufficient professional men for all the professional women.

And Unfair divorce means that those few men that do make it, are likely to be on the MARRIGE STRIKE. They don't want to risk becomming fathers.

www.Fathers4Equality-Australia.org
PartTimeParent@pobox.com

"Men also know that 50% of marriages end in divorce."
No they don't. Not according to the ABS. http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/ProductsbyCatalogue/F356DBB7EA7A96EECA256F10007B6B1A?OpenDocument

"Two-thirds of uni students are girls now"
Really? That's surprising. What's your source?

Point 1: According to the ABS, 58% of undergrads in 2000 were female, up from 44% in 1979. In round terms, the trend has reached two-thirds by now.
Also available on http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/higher_education/publications_resources/statistics/publications_higher_education_statistics_collections.htm#studpubs

Point 2: "50% of marriages end in divorce" needs a little more explaination. Looking at recent trends, 50% of today's weddings, 50% will end in divorce. Looking at all existing maried couples (including my parents, married in 1956) the divorce rate is much lower.

But if you are considering getting married, your cohort is today's weddings, not those of 50-years ago.

Marriage Strike
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_strike

Glenn Sacks on the Marriage Strike
http://www.glennsacks.com/have_antifather_family.htm

www.Fathers4Equality-Australia.org

"Point one: According to the ABS, 58% of undergrads in 2000 were female, up from 44% in 1979. In round terms, the trend has reached two-thirds by now."

So you're assuming the trend will increase at the rate it did form 1979 until 2000, presumably until universities constitute 100% women? Obviously that would be silly, so can you explain your maths there?

"Looking at recent trends, 50% of today's weddings, 50% will end in divorce."

Can you give me a source for those trends? As I understood, the trend is heading in the other direction. The 2006 ABS stats that I linked to show that the divorce rate is down from 2.9 per 1,000 people in 2001 to 2.5 per 1,000 people in 2006.

I agree that, in part, marriage is less attractive for men now because of some of the social changes you've raised. I just find your statistics dodgy, and I don't think they're bolstering your case.