I have never had any reason to watch it. I admit to an interest in gay male sexuality as evidence countering the claim that everything women don't like about male behavior is a heterosexist plot against women. Take it up with Dan Savage I guess.

women still have this power over men because men REALLY like sex and emotional involvement with women, but women don't emotionally need men ENOUGH to compromise TILL IT HURTS, like men do, now that they no longer require male support to survive socially and economically. There is no way to convince men this isn't the truth, because it obviously is, what MIGHT be possible is to prevent them from speaking openly about any of this to women who know who they are for fear of social ostracism (and maybe for most women this is good enough, who cares what they think as long as they don't make any trouble).

but men are willing to put up with their lives being made hell by women without losing the desire to be involved with them. I'm glad we finally are getting it out on the table what the real issues are.

women know this and this is why they know that they can resist real cultural, social, ideological, etc. compromise.

women have MUCH greater new opportunities in this area than men, as the entire cultural and ideological history of the last 40 years makes clear (mens' TOTAL share of EXISTING assholism may still be greater but that is inertia based on the past, although the past changes into the present at highly variable rates i.e Afghanistan, but womens' opportunities for NEW assholism are increasing and mens' are declining)

I know someone who claims to know, straight from the horses mouth so to speak, that it is not but if no one wants to claim the custom publicly I guess there is no way to prov it isn't.

Is this REALLY allowed to happen on a regular basis. It seems very strange that the authorities would allow this.

but as far a keeping it to yourself, I thought women were against men being emotionally cut off. I've always suspected that if women couldn't make men like women they might prefer emotional absence to the alternative. Specifically in this instance for example there is really no difference between him saying what he said and women talking about how abusive and domineering fathers prevent/prevented them from liking/being able to relate to/liking sex with/ etc. men.

You mean besides wear "nicer" clothes?

Obviously (well most)people would be intruding on other people if they put up billboards of themselves having sex but in general the "revealer" is the one who suffers the negative consequences; nobody else has to look and there are real downsides to too much reticence. It is true that most venting doesn't seem productive and may even seen harmful but the question is would there be MORE productive responses/discussion in it's absence or would there be nothing.

which problem could be managed were it not for the stigma/illegality.

Lots of people CLAIM that is out of guilt, or at least that powerful men are some of those into it. I'm inclined to think otherwise, that it is an acting out of the humiliation that men have to go through in their attempts to deal with and impress women and that lots of successful men have the same insecurities, but the other view is widespread.

don't know how this one is going to get solved.

and women don't.

I'm still not clear on exactly how and why doing that helps, but it seems to be something that people do.

that is enough to make it worthwhile right there.

Maybe it is, but so many religious prudes and puritans and their modern feminist counterparts have spent so much time bashing people i.e men who have a STRONG disinclination to celibacy and justifying their distaste/disapproval with religious dogma and then with secular dogma i.e "objectification of women" etc. etc. blah blah blah that I am sure you can understand why this critical inclination might exist in response (and, as "abstinence education" makes clear celibacy as a weapon is by no means absent from the modern scene either).

Men often take out their frustrations on less attractive women because obviously they don't want to piss off the ones they really like and the fact that women in their 40s and 50s are often less interested in sex themselves, are as ideologically and socially aggressive if not more so than younger women, and often have relatively more money/status/rank and the behavior that goes with it just adds to the motive and the justification (although apparently lots of women in their 40s and 50s get plenty of positive attention as well).

I'm glad to see you admit that women no longer make real sacrifices for love and sex, now if we could just get you and other women to stop telling the lie that men don't either.

men on the other hand don't care much about food and would all be thin if it would dramatically increase their sexual opportunities. Women are different, apparently. NOBODY has to have sex, or eat enough to get or stay fat, but lots of people are strongly motivated to do so. People have different levels of motivation for different instincts influenced by a variety of factors, gender being one of the big ones.

and even that doesn't seem to be bothering them much.

how can it be all that rare when there are so many of them right here.

in our "patriarchy" and them claim that your situation is so uniquely horrible that no one can comment.

and women have a low one because none of this happens to them is one of the biggest barriers to sane communication on this subject that exists.