It is quite common in the media, academia, government, business to encounter men like this clown who so hate other men and/or themselves that they attempt to destroy men somehow, in this case by implying men are 100% to blame for miscommunications.

I have particularly noticed that Northern California seems to be an epicenter of this man hating men thing. It is sad, since I have always vaguely leaned left in my politics, but I feel like there is nothing on the left that supports my gender, so it is with regret that I have leaned more and more right over the years as a result of this rejection by the left of my gender.

I quite agree. It's a manifestation of the I'm-OK-You're-OK school of pop psychology that says everybody's opinion is as good as everybody's elses and that everybody needs to seek validation, sit in a circle and sing Kum-By-Yah. It's one of the leftovers from 1960s feminism that's gotten distorted and has permeated American culture.

Blaming men for everything is a lot easier and more profitable for Oprah and Dr. Phil types than it is to really understand the social and sexual dynamics of such situations. And you'll notice a lot of the male posters here have bought into it.

You'll notice that the popular culture is full of phony relationship doctors for women, but try finding even one good one for men.

Apparently, it's perfectly fine for women to have their dozens and dozens of monthly magazines with covers touting articles such as: "Seven Secret Strategies to Make Him Fall Hopelessly in Love With You" and "Love Spells: Learn How to Have Him Wrapped Around Your Little Finger In No Time." But if a man employs any strategy other than "just be totally open and honest" to win a woman's heart, then he's a game-playing, deceitful, manipulative, womanizing, user-abuser who can't be blamed and shamed enough.

And you thought the women's movement was supposed to be about equality!

Many women have been burned romantically due to their own poor choices. (Remember, it's women, not men, who do the choosing in relationships.) They've chosen the selfish jerks, the flowery flatterers, the vapid pretty boys, and the BSing braggarts over the less glittery good guys with heart and soul. So they're bitter, and they keep their hearts shut down as a way of protecting themselves. And when a woman is bitter, the idea of a man doing anything to empower himself in the courtship process is very threatening.

So the truth is that many women would simply rather remain ticked off at men than be happy. They're addicted to being in control and yet they secretly yearn for a man of integrity who will take control and keep them guessing for a while.

Dropping relationships allows me to focus on other things, which is a bit of a relief, to tell you the truth.

And that is a good thing. Let it go. Don't let it mess with your head.

Some say love, it is a river that drowns the tender reed. Some say love, it is a razor, that leaves your soul to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger - an endless seeking need. I say love, it is a flower. And you it's only seed.

It's the heart, afraid of breaking, that never learns to dance. It's the dream, afraid of waking, that never takes the chance. It's the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

When the night has been too lonely and the road has been too long, and it seems that love is only for the lucky and the strong, just remember that in the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, lies the seed, that with the suns love in the spring becomes the rose.

Y'know what? College age men can memorize tons of puzzles in video games requiring hair trigger moves. They can design new social network applications. They can grasp the slight nuances of sports, movies. They fight in wars. They are very aware of their own fragile feelings and write about them ad naseum in blogs and songs and etc. So don't tell me they can't understand something as obvious as "I need to sleep."

All men can do these things? Some men can do SOME of these things you mention above. Some well, many NOT WELL.

Worse yet, men in the company of women are 1. in a hormonally charged situation 2. if they are not a player, they are naive and trained to thwart themselves, having been fed line after line after line of bullshit by women all their lives, so that instead of following their own instinct, they tend to get sideswiped by competing female motives, motives that nearly ALWAYS win out in a man hating society such as the United States.

Most men cannot adequately describe what they are feeling or thinking at any given moment. You women KNOW this. (this of course offers you women more entree into screwing with men's minds and dictating to men what they are SUPPOSED to be feeling or thinking, but that is for another day).

The irony that is being ripped into increasingly is that women in America control the social sphere, being the gatekeepers, being the ones listened to and trusted by society, YET STILL women take on ZERO responsibility if they put out fraudulent indicators of interest (among other things). This, of course, is untenable, as more and more men are becoming aware.

Noone, man NOR woman, can genuinely respect a person who is all authority and no responsibility, EXACTLY the position feminism wants to place women further into.

As for the raging hormones issue, women always grant to themselves the excuse that they are not responsible for their behavior when they are menstruating. Maybe this ought to be scrutinized more closely from now on.

Let the chips fall where they may, feminism is already done for. Done in by its own lawless, animalistic greed.