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In A Fight With a Fool It's A Wise Man Who Quits....or some other highly condescending fRoots claptrap...such as ARSS...Acoustic Rock Singer Songwriters.....as opposed to STARSS..Superbly Talented Acoustic Rock Singer Songwriters. You see? It's all in the way you put the acronym together, insulting, patronising and demeaning, or a little uplifting.


"Well, there you have it. An admission of demeaning, undignified behaviour from the sea-horse's mouth."

Nope, I've never seen men 'hunting in packs' like you claim to have, Diane, but I have seen women doing that, dressed like tarts, sexually harrassing the lads, by calling them names, being derogatory..and you know what, no-one touches them for it...and most of the lads just smile or ignore it.

Of course, if the men wolf whistled at the lasses, calling them some equally demeaning names, or spoke to them in the same sexual way as the women now do to the men, well, they'd be arrested for sexual harrassment in minutes, having been reported for it by humourless, controlling women who think that they have the right to say and do anything, 'because I'm a woman' whilst men have no rights at all. Women also seem to think they have the right to dress however they want and if a man DARES to look at them slightly askew, or with his eyes crossed, gee but they make him suffer for it!

Girl Power? Do me a favour. Total Female Irresponsibility, more like.

Abuse of men is as bad as abuse of women....and feminists should be tackling that, but of course, they're not. There were a lot of feminists who, imo, wanted ALL men tarred with the same brush....and if men are now beginning to stand up and shout out about it, shout out about being second class citizens, well good for them, because it's WAY overdue!

I tell you what else feminism has done, imo. It's opened the door on pornography. As a backlash to the men haters you've had some men who have been determined to ensure that women ARE still seen as male sex objects, now more than ever, almost to 'get their own back'. A whole generation (maybe two) has been raised with male magazines at the supermarket checkouts, clothes which even yer most swanky prostitute wouldn't have been seen dead in, and little girl's outfits that take your breath away for all the wrong reasons, as an even younger generation is raised to become the next lot of male fantasies for some men. (please note the *some*) And I'm sure it worries Dads as much as it worries Mums.

However, going back to the folk clubs and people chatting each other up...well..I'm afraid that not even you cannot regulate nature.

You cannot stop men loving women's bodies. Most of them are programmed to, Thank God, because it's called The Continuation of the Species. Some men are programmed to love men, just as some women love other women. It's ALL the way nature intended...and no-one should be castigated for being drawn instantly to someone they find attractive.

Stop with your rules and regulations, with your politically correct (correct?) ideas. Relax and let nature take its course, the way it always has done. By all means shout out for equal pay, equal respect, equal rights, but heck, give men a break...

And for every rude, arrogant man who'd try to force himself on a woman, especially in a crowded place, there are probably 10/20/50 men in that room who'd be the first to yank him away, take him outside and 'deal with him' in the age old way that most men have always dealt with other men who abuse women.

Many, many men want to protect women, you know. So try seeing the good for a change, it may bring a smile.


Richard Digence, are you out there..scribbling all this down for you next lot of songs? ;0)