marak - i would much rather you were 'open in your disdain' than sucking up my arse on the board and then slagging me off in private. i respect both your honesty and your opinion.
my opinion, as sin said, is always gonna come from a female point of view - as a woman, it's the only frame of reference i have. but as a woman, i experience the world differently to you and your experience of the world is different to mine. bart and i are not so much presenting undeniable facts of how the world is - we are essentially describing how the world is for us, as individuals of opposite genders. and i am not necessarily addressing every point that he makes because either a) it's not how i see the issue and i am presenting how i do see the issue for his assessment, or b) i agree with him. as a matter of fact, i have agreed with almost everything he's said in his last few posts, but on some issues i don't agree with his perception of what causes the particular issue. for example, i completely agree with his statements on female consumer spending...what i don't understand is the correlation between that and the amount of sex that men are getting. are we really saying that a man is willing to spend half a million dollars on a house and an suv, just so his wife doesn't withhold sexual favours from him? wouldn't it be soooo much easier, if sex really is the primary goal, to just have an affair? go to a hooker? does withholding sex really make a woman that powerful? as i said before, i find that concept just a wee bit insulting to men, but that could be because i genuinely don't understand the issue - which is why i am genuinely asking for bart's opinion on it.
for the record, i said 'if that's the case' with regards to less men entering college, for two reasons. one, because i am not an american and would have no clue what the gender balance in american colleges is (nor australian colleges for that matter, because i don't move in those circles). and two, because bart used the qualifier "i believe", which i took to mean that he wasn't sure of the exact facts.
and i also stated that i would get back to address the sexual harassment issue when i was finished playing housewife and mother. :)
i'm not excited by the prospect of any part of the community being forced into subjugation, and that includes men. i believe it's bad for men and women when one party has more power than the other, just as it is when one race has power over another. this is absolutely not about bart being wrong and me being right, or vice versa. this is me sharing how i view the world - as it affects me, as a woman - and hearing about how bart (and others) experience the world as men. you can't claim, with authority, that the grass is greener on the other side, unless you take a peek over the fence.