Dear Divorce Doctor,

I'm not sure I fully understand what you're on about - with all this
Family Law Business - but what the heck - you understand it - I guess that's all that matters.

As for men keeping their eyes on 'the ball.'

Well, that reminds me ...

Man says to God, "Why did you make woman so beautiful?"
God says, "So you would love her."
"But God," the man says, "Why did you make her so dumb?"
God replies, "So she would love you!"

How many men does it take to clean a toilet?

None, that's women's work.

How do you bring a woman to orgasm?

Who cares?

Isn't it interesting that the grrrls have resorted to misandric "jokes" to avoid responding to a serious discussion and attempt to derail it? Straight out of the manual. Well done, grrrls.

yes Savlon, I agree, the jokes are all PART of the red herring plan BY the Power Feminists to keep bloke's eye off the ball [not hard]

howard was the master of this where he threw heaps of money at gals to get vote by giving them MORE power eg Aunty Pru AIFS, CSA, ONE-WAY Sex Descrim Laws etc but for bloke vote he simply went to every sporting game and bellowed out Advance Aust Fair.

and Foxy one, Fam Law is the best example as it is the biggest industry of all in Oz [as the ladies/lawyers KNOW] at some 20 billion pa, because it includes EVERYTHING incl shirt off bloke's back.

Indeed it SHOULD therefore be a subject of serious discussion/consideration for every bloke and not just Secret Wimmins Business

and there we have the interface to life in general ie in playing out gender domination in the only important matter [ie "life skills"] these smart wimmen even tell Blonde Jokes themselves

they care not about bloke is more smart as a Rocker Scientist, as that is simply a bigger slice of the pie for Buttercup when she goes for her DIP [or simply "hangs her flag on the Marble Arch" as Leonard Cohen puts it in Hallelujah]

Foxy: << "Men only call themselves 'feminists' in the hope of getting a more intelligent root." >>

Busted. And I thought it was my own little secret.

Just as well I'm past all that now, having found one eventually :D

Hot off the Press at Howard's [surviving] Cash for Comment "men's site" [to promote a new book re Liam Magill pathos]

"Two mothers are suing an Illinois hospital because their newborn babies were switched at birth. Although the mistake was rectified within hours, Mary Jo Bathon and Kassie Hopkins are each demanding $50,000 for the mistake.

It is interesting to note the **different levels of importance society attaches** to mother-child mix-ups versus father-child mix-ups. Hospitals take elaborate precautions to match the right mother to the right newborn - wristbands immediately after birth, footprints, and more.

No steps whatsoever are taken to insure that babies are matched to the right fathers, even though a simple DNA test, now available for under $30 from RiteAid pharmacies, will do the trick."

My comment - for "society" use "Political Correctness", as the Legislation [if not the Law] is perfectly equal

We live in a time where gender-based roles are changing and few pathways are marked as we try to figure out the right way to make our lives work in relationships. What complicates gender relations is that the world we inhabit today would have been almost impossible to envision even as recently as a few decades ago.

Gender relations in contemporary society present a seemingly paradoxical picture. On one hand, we are told that women are rapidly becoming equal partners at home and in the workplace. With women and men moving into each other's traditional spheres, it would seem logical that we would finally be able to understand each other's experiences.

Women have now had to compete day in and day out to financially support their family. They have set their sights on many of the same goals as their male counterparts; today there are, for example, more women than men in many university professional schools. Surely women can now understand the societal pressures to succeed that have always
burdened their partners.

As wives have moved in even greater numbers into the workforce, husbands have had to take on more women's traditional responsibilities for child care and homemaking. It would seem they can now understand the magnitude of these responsibilites the never-ending routine of care and crisis.

On the other hand, we are told that our social experiences are separated by light years and it seems that we need a manual to decode what we say to one another.

At the same time, the media delivers body counts in the gender wars in stories of spouse abuse, divorce, child custody battles, and disputes over affirmative action.

What has not changed, apparently over all this time, is the desire of men and women to figure out what is appropriate for their own and the other gender and to find ways to live together.

What has changed is that we are now less sure about what is the right way to be a man or a woman.

Take care.