[kupoartist]

Originally Posted by Spank-A-Thon

Men are constantly competing to gain the attention of some female out there. They wear certain clothes, drive certain cars, wear certain aftershave all for this reason. If a woman was to walk in a room and ask for sex, most of the time she would not be short of offers. If a male was to do the reverse, I think the success rate would be much lower.

Women are constantly competing to gain the attention of some male out there. They wear certain clothes, walk a certain way, wear a certain perfume all for this reason. Erm.. yeah, so basically my point is that in this respect there is equality - except that far, far more women try to catch attention like this. For every guy who is concerned with his appearance there are two girls. Actually, scrap that because probably about 95% of the females I know who're around my age are concerned in these ways and maybe 25% of guys are. Also, females go far and beyond what males do. What is the male equivilent of waxing your legs?

Originally Posted by Spank-A-Thon

All you need to do is think of the sheer amount of ways time and money is gotten from men in order to have anything to do with an attractive female.... Porn, lap dancing, buying drinks in a bar, dating, flowers, gifts and so on.....

Who owns the Porn shop and the seedy bar? What is the ratio of Men / Women on the executive board of Interflora? How can any of these things be counted near the sort of power that male dominated governments and corporations wield? I don't see as if any of these acts, even cumulatively equal any power at all.

Originally Posted by Spank-A-Thon

You do realise that 90% of all DIY tasks by men are performed under the promise of sexual favours?

Interesting fact (and thats genuinely not sarcastic ^^) but how does this demonstrate power? A lot of your examples talk about sex or seduction, but I see that more of a male weakness than a female power.

And one more thing - an interesting fact that Meryl's long (I mean, probably the longest post I've ever seen a forum) reminded me of. It is a socially accepted "fact" that women talk far more than men even to the point where "women talk to much". Yet, it's a scientific fact that men talk more than women. Men dominate mixed sex conversations and are far more likely to interupt females than males. If this conversation were in real life, Meryl wouldn't have been able to finish saying what she just did ^^ . That is the real male dominance in practice, the kind of thing that leads to what Mena experienced.