"At our worst, men are stupid, but women are mean." Hey - I've known a couple of really mean men.... talk about mind control games.....

I agree that a woman can do practically anything a man can (I do the decorating and other DIY stuff around the house here, Manitas makes coffee and does the housework....) but there are some blokes out there who don't think that applies.. I had one partner who, if I bought a new electrical appliance would ask if the plug was already attached. If I said it was, or that the shop had done it, it was OK. If I said that I had put it on, he immediately cut the cord just below the plug and wired it himself in front of me WITHOUT EVEN CHECKING if it was incorrect or not. And that was just one of the smallest of his actions of mistrust and deceit.

He wasn't a pig though. I LIKE pigs. He was a Cambridge educated, public school, father "something in the Ministry" man with no money worries, a cut glass accent, "connections" and was a croquet champion. The slobby, greasy hairy biker I hung around with when I was 16 was 'piggish' in image, but a perfect gentleman who never shouted at me, even when I dropped his bike in a ditch.

LTS