I agree that the other threads were funny in parts, and that they were working from a basic unspoken assumption that the relationships between men and women (particularly between those living together and putting up with each other's foibles) were a good thing. But (like a lot of things in relationships) the basic assumptions better get said from time to time, or everyone just gets weary. I was 20 times happier writing here about the great things I see in men and women (and thinking about the things I didn't say -- the gentleness of men, the no-nonsense of women -- the opposites of what I said) than I was trying to find funny ways of saying bad things about them. And I am a sarcastic, ironic, bastard, as those who know me know. Just trying maybe to balance off my own tendencies (some days you can get me started on the whole human race, and how its eradication would be a good thing; but one Audrey Hepburn and I forgive them everything. Speciesism!!! )

yours, Peter T.