Wow - this thread just gets worse. Yabby's was a particularly and gratuitously snarky contribution. He's in good company here, I guess,

Did you ever play Rugby League, Yabby?

Pynchme and Fractelle - thanks for the kind words, but I think I'm done with the "despicable and unpleasant" misogynist losers and their groupie.

I'll continue post links to relevant NRL thuggery and sociopathy stories though, if only to collect all the recent ones somewhere on OLO.

Ciao :)

used to be the Parliament stork women
who sought equal rights,
now its a gaggle of ganders.

“How are the kids today? Responding to a sunny day or gripes from the cold night, runny noses, chapped skin and so on?”

I have a cold and chapped skin, they’re all good… was a nice warm day today in paradise so they were all squealing and having scooter races, generally annoying the neighbors who had no idea that sometimes it would be like living next to a daycare.

So I’m busy in the kitchen heating up some small savaloys (don’t know what you call them here) and five of them are squeeling their heads off outside and then it reached a new pitch so I go have a nosey and the little sods are sopping wet prancing about in a sun shower.

They are now in the playroom looking for their brains which I said they better find before I send everyone to bed early.

Thanks for the LMAO answer – I usually ask a teenager here these things but couldn’t find one. As for Anti - well it is obvious I am his favourite.[smile]

Fractelle, I know what you mean. I have a guy stalking me about other sites because he hates anything to do with the department. If ignored they try hard and harder to be hurtful or get a reaction. Then the mob mentality kicks in (literally)… all a bit sad really.

As for your ex, well he is never going to be happy or free as long as there are mirrors in this world. You are rid of bad rubbish.

Whistler... "stork women"? I swear you leave the shortest messages of anyone on OLO and I stare at them for the longer than any other.

C J

You are wasted here, that tragic exit while still casting nasturtiums is a classic.

Takes practice though, huh?

Back to the dressing room, you were wonderful dahling.

Hey Cornflower

I capiche.

However, I am fed-up with the manner in which a few bitter men simply paint all feminists as a single-minded homogenous group. I don't fully agree with your take on feminism, but that's OK, I do enjoy gaining a wider perspective, one of my reasons for engaging with people on OLO is to learn and I have certainly done that.

I thought that the point in the article you linked to about women performing most of the care and attention while children are very young, while men are more suited to dealing with teenagers very apt. Perhaps we have to rethink the entire sharing of parenting in a more multidimensional manner - by the time children reach adolescence, a father may well want a break from the workforce and a mother only too keen for a change of role.

Whatever. In any enterprise, be it parenting or managing a football team, what is needed is genuine communication and respect, on that note I will take CJ's lead and finish this ultimately absurd thread with grace and the knowledge that I am still free to present my point of view in the future.

Fractelle

Did you miss my post where I suggested that Dr Hakim's findings are of equal use and application to men as well as women?

The problem is that it is worthless and probably counterproductive changing workplaces to make them more 'woman friendly' when the environment outside in the community is not similarly woman friendly. I am talking about women's preferences in the broad, which when you think about it are not so different to men's and one day the penny will drop.

Over recent decades the 'outside work' environment has become noticeably harder for women and women with children, not easier. We need to look at whole of life, not just the work years (for those who choose it from time to time). I am not saying that men have it any better, both sexes need to take stock and think.