Nope.

But there is a danger of women doing to men what men did to them several thousand years ago. That would be sad.

There's a place in the middle ground somewhere where men and women can come together to understand and realize that their differences aren't really differences at all, but different skillsets.

We didn't create one another, unlike the Bibblical or KScienterrific Mythologies suggest, and the One(s) who did created us to be equals. Part of our "curriculum" must be to come to understand this important fact and what it means about how we should conduct ourselves (hint: I'm still learning, too).

That means that no matter what external controls either gender places on the other, both will rule the world as coequals. It may not seem so in the short run, but over the long haul, neither man nor woman has cornered the market on kicking anyone's ass, or keeping anyone down. In general and over the long haul.

Women do get very touchy about this fact whenever men start pointing out the ways in which women have covertly warped their masculine sense of themselves from infancy to the present moment of pseudo-adulthood. Men become very angry, as well, when women rightly point out that men have been gen-u-ine whiny assholes about having to wake up and smell the coffee. In fact, make your own damn coffee, they say.

But as long as we look at our communal reality as individuals with individual histories and agendas, we are going to inflame each other. Some women have been traumatized by men. Some men have been traumatized by women. This isn't as tough a nut to crack when the trauma occurs after the age of ten or so...but it can be mightily painful to get cleaned up and resolved.

Far worse, however, is the damage that the genders do to their children before they reach the age of 10. There are no words I can use to describe, in full, the mind-bending experience of trying to resolve childhood trauma, especially when it is gender-centric (only the opposite sex could have accomplished the peculiar kind of damage done).

Nor could I begin to express my gratitude for the giants who have come before me to light the way. Only Love, the real kind, can explain why these people ever bothered to stop hurting and being hurt, to make the choice for sanity.

All I can add is that it's not about being a victim anymore. Either everyone IS, or everyone IS NOT, a victim. That means that either we're all on a sinking ship together, or we're all manning the lifeboats as a team.

If we're all victims, why are we bothering to blow smoke at each other, half-heartedly begging to be healed of all this goo? Aren't we just trolling for another victim that we can use to feed our unquenchable thirst for blood when we piss and moan about they did this and they did that?

And if we're not victims, then everyone must have their stuff and we need to start pairing up specifically for the purpose of cleaning this shit up.

Oh, I forgot. We're already doing that. It's part of the plan, too....