if the same trends had continued (which they could easily have been made to by maintaining and tightening efficiency standards) the US would have been producing all of it's own fuel by the mid 80s. Thanks to the glorious restoration of the "free market" by saint ronald the idiot this didn't happen of course. The US produces the same amount of oil as Russia, we just use even more. This isn't even touching alternate fuels. In fact with some investment we could have switched over to natural gas, all avialable in North America, at any time. Compared to the economic costs of the current oil prices, which would never have gotten anywhere near this high if we had done this, it would have been a bargain. Not to mention thirty years of cleaner air, less vehicle wear and on and on.

in other words, if she feels that her economic and social situation would be excessively compromised by leaving a (supposed)abuser she has the right to kill him instead.

ABSOLUTELY....(some say)he needed killin....as long as men cut off womens economic means of escape......

I'll start to get upset about the "sexism" blah blah blah here.

the question here is: can women learn to pee standing up or is equality only achievable to making it mandatory for men to sit down (which appears to be the current consensus among the enlightened).

then their legs naturally have the shape that high heels are used to artificially (and harmfully) imitate. In fact a woman who already has well shaped legs often looks BAD in high heels because her calves THEN look like a male body builders. Yes I know high heels supposedly add desirable wobble too, but personally I don't find that the aesthetic effect of a womans ass moving when she walks is affected by the presence or absence of high heels. She looks just as good or bad either way.

if it doesn't relate to either of those two things it doesn't matter to straight men. The things that matter to women and gay fashion designers mean nothing to straight men. This may be an example of a situation where womens certainty that they know everything is actually causing them some practical problems that they could avoid if they were willing to listen.

happen to women

other than this I don't think the things you are talking about would matter other than for the reasons I said such as makeup makes skin look softer/healthier, heels make legs look more toned, tight clothes show the body underneath. etc.

but they may lead to them being perceived as at least potentially more AVAILABLE.

The strenght of the sexual signal may vary but probably ANY attempt to look good is going to have at least something especially since men don't care about their own looks or clothes except to the extent that they can attract women or maintain a reasonable social and economic postion (and the second goal is really only a means of attaining the first anyway).

if a woman shaves her pubes every day along with her legs that would maybe be about equal.

if you don't allow people the opportunity to learn. "Traditional values" have never achieved this. Sometimes people got lucky, usually they just made the best of it, and these were/are situations where people, all people, are socially required to perform in fairly narrow ways. It just won't work now.

Many men will never be able to get what they want by reasonable and polite means, because the biological disparity in interest is just too great. The only mitigation possible is prostitution (and even there it's not clear how many willing female sellers there would be at a price an average male could afford if women had other opportunities) and most feminists vigorously oppose that. Apparently they aren't as worried as you are by the threat frustrated men pose to feminism and womens status and position.

that a loser man is much more likely than a loser woman to prefer another loser over nothing.

What has happened, I think, is a combination of two things:

1) Even though most parents aren't true believers in prudery every parent always is a little worried about their kid.

2)Abstinence hucksters and fanatics by a combination of persistence, stealth, and willingness to work for free have acquired more opportunities to peddle their wares than many people realize.....

so..... there is at least a perception of a major anti sex movement among the relatively young, although probably not so much a reality.

"hookup culture"? and that even though it is constantly alleged that "lots" of (non religious) young men are uninterested in it we always only seem to have older womens and occasionally older mens word for this.

"Casual Sex ?!? This is my best suit!"

so it isn't entirely surprising that some people end up not using them. Maybe it isn't smart, but it isn't a big mystery.

what are you gonna do? The problem used to be mitigated somewhat by gender roles, which if the man fulfilled his so successfully were sort of like "money", actually pussy, "in the bank". Now, as a result of the absence of this system, men can't demonstrate that they are worthy of sex with without actually having sex, so it's sort of funny to listen to all the whining.

then surely it's obvious that using equivalent logic you can prove that almost no one is qualified to have an opinion on almost anything.

"See, see, that "man" has two X chromosomes and that "woman" has a Y chromosome, so all gender is a social construct, it's proven by science!"

It is the ONLY POSSIBLE EXPLANATION for why a non rich person would ever vote Republican. Many rich Republican voters are not stupid; they are sociopaths, like Bush. Actually he is both.

the hormone levels at key points of development.