as a summation of the crap women continually lay on us men...

"treat us like equals, but put down the toilet seat."

It is not about men being courteous to women.

It IS about women being DIScourteous to men by demanding that men defer to women rather than the other way around or rather than men and women being on equal footing (not caring if the seat is up or down)

For women to bitch about toilet seats being up is a show of force against men, telling men that women OWN them in the household.

Men ought to get a LOT tougher on women for this constant stream of bullshit that plays like Muzak in the background of gender relations.

So it is entirely correct for RedShooz to say women are full of crap when they claim they want to be treated like equals.

As for the later post about women hating on men for opening doors in the seventies and later hating on men for no longer being chivalrous, maybe the message ought to be that WOMEN GET YOUR OWN FUCKING LIVES and quit giving a crap about constantly parsing whether a man has dissed you or not.

Most men just want a trustworthy, good-hearted person to love who will love them back relatively uncritically. In this world this seems ever more impossible when women CONSPIRE to plot fresh ways to try to destroy men and gender relations.

whenever a woman refuses to make love to me.

Where do I complain to?

if men wrote in the public media about how useless and redundant women are.. well

and there is also a little something called JUSTICE.

Had they not been so notoriously and CONSISTENTLY dismissive of their clients' complaints in the past two decades, Microsoft might not be choking on fumes, as it seems to everytime it tries to match wits against a stronger, more established player in some new market.

Frankly, I am utterly shocked whenever I use a Microsoft program and continue to find new glitches during use. Much of the Microsoft Office Suite seems to glory in adding new and useless features (That stinking paperclip) or reinventing wheels that never needed reinventing (the Office 2007 menu bars) in the first place or treating the user like an idiot by making WRONG assumptions about what the user is doing (like the ongoing auto functions that assume you want to bullet when you really just want to put in dashes).

I was shocked earlier this year when I began to use both InDesign and Open Office. InDesign does things more logically, thoroughly, intuitively, with elegant menus, detailed extensive features to control bullets (for example), and no nonsense, stay-out-of-the-way usability. Open Office, has all the features of MS Office and it's FREE and actually IMPROVES on MS Office.

I might have more hope if I did not feel like Vista and other MS software is sitting on top of quarter century old code. They STILL have not figured out how to make copying files simple and easy and trouble free, for instance.

Microsoft does what Microsoft does. If it does not want to make their software usable, transparent, filled with useful control menus for functions, quit offering its users useless arrogant pseudo-functions, shove its monopoly control onto the desktop, quit generating compatibility problems with other programs, and a litany of other complaints, then it is entitled to do so.

And the world is entitled to STAY CLEAR OF MICROSOFT unless it absolutely has no other choice but to use Microsoft software-- as in Windows and Office-- both of which are markets that are being eroded by SUPERIOR SOFTWARE CHOICES, slowly but surely, as we speak.

So, why do people avoid MS web sites? Why feed the beast even more?

were this to be WOMEN seeking sex from men for pay, Broadsheet would be all for it, as in the case of women vacationing at resorts in order to procure sex services from men.

So this is really not about prudery as much as it is about maintaining the market price for men's access to sex.

Women seem very uncharitable towards men in general, this being one key area of concern. There seems to be no affection or desire for women to treat men decently or fairly. There is always this hypocritical chicanery on feminists' parts. A dishonesty leavened with deep disdain for men and their needs. It is sad that so many men out there cannot just spread their legs and get women to jump on them and to give them some love and affection, unlike the author and her female cohorts.

Maybe it is time for men to be equally uncharitable back at women. It might wake women up from engaging in their little power trips against men.

it is pretty straightforward actually.

many feminists nurture a special hatred for men, one that constantly seeks new ways to make men irrelevant. It is a basic tenet of feminism, like it or not, as so many feminists delight in reading and writing about such thoughts.

Feminism is (unfortunately) also MAINSTREAM.

Unless you are prepared to tell me that the men you describe as wanting to control women are legion, nurtured by society in their beliefs and control the media, there is no comparison between these rare and marginal men and feminism.