Big Cheese - a joke told to me by a female friend's mother:

What's the difference between a porcupine and a corvette?

With the porcupine, the pricks are on the outside.

LOTS of women look a men who drive a sports and are less impressed by that man than they would be if they didn't know what he drove. Superficial? Yeah. But there are a lot of young-mid-aged men who think a sports car does make them more attractive to women.

And to be frank - they do attract a type of woman who equates a sports car with disposable money. They can be identified by their attempts to barbify themselves.

Just because a stereotype exists, doesn't mean there is no basis!

(oh - and I've heard lamentations from a couple of my sports car driving male friends that women are SO superficial! Maybe they would attract a higher quality of female with a Corolla?)

I had a curious discussion with a math professor when I was getting my degree. She said that the women in the math program tend to be "better" than the men.

That doesn't mean that women are better than men as much as it said that only the women who were very good, took on college math.

Which is unfortunate.

My own observations (with myself as participant included) is that when surrounded by males in a "male" study, women tend to be less outspoken and only speak out when they are VERY sure of the answer. Men seem much more comfortable in making mistakes in public. (and being mocked for making a mistake - sorry - it does exist, as does the "stupid girl" attitude in enough small pockets to make its impact)

I believe this is due to perceptions of females being "bad" at math. If you are female and make a public error - it might be perceived as a failure due to your gender. Males seem not to have this burden.

I am not a fan of dis-integrated schooling as that can lead to one group getting a better education, but I can see certain classes being segregated (like high school level) for certain subjects. I think it important to lay the foundation of confidence and rid the gender burden of expected failure.

I feel the same way about english as a second language students. Math is math and a lot of times learning math AND proficiency in English creates a burden that could be dispelled by early math (up to grade 4) being taught in the primary language -and intergration later when language has caught up.

There is nothing more annoying than to be annoyed or sad legitamately at something, and have some male question the status of your hormones.

Never just emotion, it is either PMS or Menopause.

So a female is only allowed to have emotions (that are inconvenient to others) when they are 10 or younger - or 60 and older?

Gah! That make me so pissed off! Is there a drug for that?

Agree - there is a hormonal-emotional connection. Probably stronger is some than in others, probably stronger at some periods of life than others.

Personally - I know I am more pessimistic right before my period - just as I am more euphorically energized after those few days.

It is the discounting of any negatively perceived emotion as "just" hormones that make a lot of women mad to the point they won't even discuss the connections that are there.

And I guess I resent how dismissed as hormonal, any reaction to life that seems inconvenient to the men involved with the woman. An example of that would be getting mad at something that the male find angry provoking - that is an OKAY responce. Getting mad at something he doesn't, seems to provoke the question of hormones.

Professional men with 'traditional' wives make more money than the same men with working wives. Plenty of studies out there to confirm this.

The reason is those men with the wives taking care of kinder, kucken, and kirken are freed to work more hours and not be distracted with getting Jimmy to soccer practice, or making sure there are clean clothes for the next work week.

I've seen the differences in working hours between men who have SAH wives vs the ones with working outside the home wives.

I've never run across a professional woman with a SAH husband so I can't compare women. ( I know I would have a HELL of a lot more time if I had a "wife" who kept up my home chores!)

One of the reasons that men work more hours than women is that they have a woman working for them and freeing up the time.

I've come to the believe that Americans deserve the government they elect. I came to that believe after they re-elected Bush in the face of obvious wrong-doing and corruption which was leading to financial ruin and international shame.

Unfortunately I have to suffer along with the rest of them as those elected destroy my country.

If McCain/Palin are elected I think the rest of the world should just go ahead and work around us (keeping a close eye on our military ambitions). They already have started to do that - since 2004 proved that American voters are even more brain washed than the people in North Korea.

A lot of women working in a professional jobs (doctors, engineers, etc) are married to men in the similar field. They met them going to school or at work. So you get a professional couple who do the family thing and both work and both share the home front chores.

These men don't work as many hours as the men who married women who are not working outside the home.