re my last post

"actually whilst some men and women choose a polyamorous lifestyle, far more as simply "serious monogonists"."

please replace with

actually whilst some men and women choose a polyamorous lifestyle, far more are simply "serial monogonists" (serious or flippant).

Foxy-You are wrong. I had a good agent; a very good agent. Had my real, old-fashioned, gentle and romantic self been known to my subjects, how long do you think I would have lasted? Having a fearsome reputation as a tyrannical head-lopping king set the foundation stone of our great empire. Would you have wanted Kevin Rudd to have said, "Sorry" in Spanish or possibly (perish the vile thought) French? Indeed, under the Spanish, would there have been anyone left to say, "Sorry" to? Now, back to my jam-jar tops.

Dear Col Rouge,

Just to clear things up -

Men think 'monogamy' is something you make dining room tables out of.

Dear Henry VIII,

Thanks for correcting me. So you're not a 'romantic' as I thought...

I see. Then you were merely being 'sensitive' regarding all that
head-chopping? Hmmmm.

Many a man thinks himself extremely sensitive simply because he's easily put out. (smile).

Ahh Robert,

Your whole theory falls down by failing to take into account the fact that not all women are arachnaphobes.

Once when I went away my (male) house-sitter ran screaming from the house during the first night because I had neglected to tell him that my pet tarantula liked to spend the night directly above my head on the blinds.(And don't even THINK of the whole snake thing. Had a pet one of those too. Lived under the piano. Made short work of many a date back in the day.)

So..jam-jars, back zippers on dresses and spiders dispensed with. (Briskly rubbing her hands) C'mon, guys, give it another shot.

Romany, I'll have to live in the hope that there are enough women out there with an adversion to opening jam jars or dealing with spiders to keep men in demand.

There are women such as yourself who do all that stuff and men who don't but to keep this debate viable we will need to stick to stereotypes, the stereotypes where women can't open jam jars or deal with spiders and men can.

R0bert

Camille Paglia had an interesting view, that if there were no men, women would still be living in grass huts.

Esther Villar author of the "Manipulated Man" adds another view;

"Women let men work for them, think for them and take on their responsibilities - in fact, they exploit them."

"Since men are strong, intelligent and imaginative, while women are weak, unimaginative and stupid, why isn't it men who exploit women?"

"Could it be that strength, intelligence and imagination are not prerequisites for power but merely qualifications for slavery?"

"Could it be that the world is not being ruled by experts but by beings who are not fit for anything else - by women?"

"And if this is so, how do women manage it so that their victims do not feel themselves cheated and humiliated, but rather believe to be themselves what they are least of all - masters of the universe?"

Why are women never unmasked?"

I suppose in reality men are only necessary for a short period time. The time it takes to impregant a woman and supply her with house, sounds about right. The case in point is the Sir Paul MacCartney and Heather Mills, Mills and Boons saga.(pun intended)

Yeah I know not all women are like that etc etc etc. Some even actually like men most of the time.