Gather round folks, we've got sweeping generalisations for everybody! Tired of regarding yourself and others as individuals? We've got dozens of buzzwords and social assumptions that can do that for you! Farmed from the thinest scientific surveys available! Simply take your pick and you can be secretly judging others…

Fuck you Steve. I'll let the women speak for themselves but on behalf of men, fuck you to hell with a razor blade. Just because you can't be adled raising a single blasted finger to save your own pathetic relationships doesn't mean you've earned the right to tar the rest of us with the same brush.

Although I do think a lot of media is lagging quite badly on this, I think there is every reason to be optimistic, given the broad, continuing popularity of what media that does star or heavily feature strong & complex female characters (Futurama, Doctor Who, Mass Effect - a lot science fiction, come to think of it.)

I don't agree with your analysis of the opening shot at all. It looks more to me like they're presenting a common experience rather then making it seem something extraordinary. A key focus of the shot is her admiring her handy work - I'm a vanilla male, but I feel like I recognise a similar look in the mirror every…

I could not possibly agree more.

Fox News, deliberating avoiding a major news story that might be detrimental to it's image? Somebody fetch the smelling salts.

Always good to be reminded, but I'm still running with the "even if it was a choice, why would you care?" counter-argument. Just to keep things fresh, as well being an equally valid point that I don't feel is made or defended enough.

It's the total lack of awareness, of the self or any other kind, that's a frightening as anything else.

You mean alcohol was involved in this? You don't say.

Girls With Slingshots has long been on my list of things that make the world a better place.

This is part of the reason, as a hetero male whiskey drinker, I identify as a feminist. I hate this ridiculous culture that tells me behaving like a pubescent asshole is what I need to do to be a "real man".

Even if I had the money I'd never buy anything like that. I wouldn't know what the hell to do with it. I'd move my stuff in, sit on my sofa and just stare at the exquisitely decorated walls for several days.

You saw that and instinctively tried to twist your head upside down, didn't you?

Maybe Gooch is just very religious?

As a white male I second this, but this documentary looks utterly engrossing as well as truly shocking.

Rugby center-forward players have be warned.

Someone must have put a notice out for a nanny.

To me it seems the Rapture is just the payoff for those with the control fantasy that monotheistic religions play into - that someone or something is in control of everything and there's a grand plan, a plan eventually culminating in the arbitrary destruction of anyone who doesn't submit to it. The reality of course…

I 2nd this query.

So basically all the ranting self-interested crazies float off to whatever bland, white, sex-free, Tea Party tea party they call heaven, while the rest of us get left behind to build a better, quieter world for each other with a moderate surplus of kittehs and doggies to take care of.