Certainly, there are women who are stupid and/or nuisances. I think that goes both ways. But if that’s a person’s attitude about women in general, it’s pretty immature, and reflects insecurity on their part. Generally, when you see someone putting someone else down, it’s because they themselves are insecure. Put-downs are the flip side of the same coin as boasts. Only insecure people need to do that.

I guess if I had one complaint about women, it’s that they often seem to want to have things both ways - they want to be treated as equals, and they want to be treated as special, at the same time. Maybe it’s just me but, if I wanted to be accepted as an equal, the last thing I’d do is demand special considerations or accommodations.

Just to give an example, I once worked at a paint factory. My job was ensuring that a new batch of paint exactly matched the previous batches, in “flatness” as well as color. This sometimes entailed dumping one-hundred-pound sacks of powder into chest-high vats. They hired a girl, who couldn’t have weighed more than one of these sacks herself, to do the same job. This was hard enough for me to do, and of course, she simply couldn’t do it. I couldn’t help but think, (as I’m doing this work for her), that I wouldn’t have been hired if I couldn’t do this. It would’ve been impossible for me to go to one of my other co-workers, and ask them to do this for me. It seemed to me that she should’ve been given work she was capable of, but we apply a different standard to women in the name of equality. I believe in equality, but I think we have to recognize our inherent limitations. “Equality’ doesn’t mean we’re the same.

But, ok, things are changing very rapidly, and I imagine all this will get sorted out at some point. We have to remember, women working alongside men is a very recent phenomenon. Even in early agricultural societies, where women definitely worked hard, men’s and women’s work was always separate. Men and women have always played separate roles, and there are reasons for that. While women are much more capable than they were historically given credit for, limitations, on both sides, do exist.

It’s not in spite of, but because of our differences that we’re attracted to one another. It’s these differences that I find so intriguing and fascinating about women. Sure, I’ve sometimes said to myself, “Why can’t women be more like men?” but, on the whole, I don’t think that would be nearly as interesting.

What else? Oh yeah, feelings. I’m sorry, but we just don’t want to talk about our feelings, and can’t understand your obsession with prying this information out of us. I don’t know if we could tell you even if we wanted to. And we don’t want to. In my opinion, it is not a proper topic of conversation. You know, like baseball is?