[CarrotAndStick]

Sushi Das is a columnist and feature writer for The Age, where she has been for 10 years in various roles including Victorian news editor, transport editor, letters editor and state politics reporter.

[Candor7]

"Being a decent human being shouldn't be that hard.",p> This statement exposes the naivete of the author. It is incredibly difficult to be a decent human being these days. ,p> The feminist view of relationships with men is essentially materialistic. The psychology of imprinting in relationships between men and women is ignored, for example.

Also the fact that intersexual relations are dictated by deeply engrained behaviours based on evolution of the human race, is also ignored by feminists.

The fact is that men and women need each other and are incomplete without each other.

Materialism, the objectifying of men, has lead to a disolution of the family. Men do not need to live with materialistic , selfish women. Men just take what the want or can and move on. Men have become hunters and gathers in their relationships with women, rather than agrarian cultivators of single relationships

And now feminists complain?

Increasingly American men marry women from a traditional society such as Japan, Korea or Saudi Arabia. Perhaps there is a message there.

[USMMA_83]

Carrot, I'm telling you that the next 20 years, it will the be women of India who reign in feminism, and bring semblance to this nuisance.

[sure_fine]

'FEMINISM has turned women into selfish, spoiled, spiteful, powerless victims," shrieked the email.

I knew it was a woman who wrote this with out even looking at the name

[kb2614]

Hey, she's kinda cute!!

Oops, was that sexist?? Probably a stoning offense at Berzerkly or Hahvahd. ;-)

[normy]

Essentially, men raised three broad concerns over why they did not engage in the debate on feminist issues. First, they were scared of being howled down by aggressive feminists who dismissed their views. Second, they felt they were victims too, but women didn't listen to them. Third, they were confused about what women really wanted and what constituted appropriate behavior.

Well the "men" they asked must be the Woody Allen type, wormy, whining, effeminate wimps.

Who cares if a feminist howles you down, I barely note they exist and allow them to howl like alley cats until they look like complete fools. One of my favorite responses to feminists is "Thats cool for you, I just need a old fashioned girl, but good luck with your deal too" talk about infuriating.

Victims? Victims? Victims of what? That certain women wouldn't allow them to be men? Thats not the womens choice. There are plenty of women who want real take charge men, you just better know you have one when you get married.

Men who worry about what women want tend to end up looking like complete wimps. Not only are women confused about what they want, so generally are men.

The problem with feminism is that these girls party through college, get a job and spend 5 or 6 years moving up the ladder or accumulating stuff while going to bars to meet people. Usually by the time a girl hits her 30's the career is not as cool as they thought it would be and most of the men are married.

Men can be 40 and marry girls from 20 to 50 women who are 35 to 40 have a much smaller group to choose from.

[ArrogantBustard]

Any decent paparazzo can get a candid shot of almost any subject and make him look good or bad, at the paparazzo's whim. A single candid shot really tells us little about the subject. Publicity shots, OTOH, are staged, posed, lighted, cropped, dodged, burned, airbrushed, bent, folded, spindled, mutilated, and finally vetted to ensure that they tell us exactly what the client wants to tell us. This publicity shot

shows a woman with a gigantic chip on her shoulder.

[TC Rider]

Someone tastes like raw fish?

[RockinRight]

Actually, I find her rather attractive...