I dare to write about: Men and Women Today

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140. You don't get snotty with me, I won't get snotty with you.

At least not intentionally.

I'm not getting into personalities, forget that. It's entertaining, but it goes nowhere.

I really think we are all largely on the same page and arguing about nomenclature. Nomenclature, what to call things, is important, but you don't want it taking over. In the end, it's all talk.

I am not going to not say what I think is true: that things have been much improved on the women's rights front since I was a kid, or since I was a young husband if you prefer, because you don't want to deal with it. I was inculcated with all that shit. I've spent a fair part of my life getting rid of it. Still am.

I have always considered, since I came of age to think about it at all, that women's rights and men's rights are just two sides of the same coin. Men cannot be free in a world where women are enslaved. And history bears that out. And it works the other way too. Servitude is gender neutral, equal oportunity.

That doesn't mean we are done, it means we give ourselves a well-deserved pat on the back for progress made, all of us, and get back to work.