"Equal But Different"! This is the way I've always looked at this whole gender thing. I'm fortunate to have grown up in a time when it hasn't really been an issue whether a woman kept her "place" or not as much as it was for my parents' generation. I'm in my 30s, and always knew that I could have a career or not, voice my opinions openly & freely, choose whether to shave my legs or drink a pint at the bar or wear lipstick and basically do whatever the guys did if I damn well wanted to. For my kids' generation, these things should be complete non-issues, at least in Western culture.

That said, it would be silly to argue that there aren't inherent differences between men & women, and to my mind these are things to be celebrated as part & parcel of one's individual identity, in a spirit of understanding & appreciating one's individuality, rather than a spirit of divisiveness. Women and men absolutely experience some aspects of life in very diferent ways, but this ought to mean that we can learn from each other!

I recently had the oportunity to participate in a local production of the "Vagina Monologues", and it was very refreshing to be part of something that, while pro-female, was most emphatically NOT anti-male; it's important to embrace who we are, and that doesn't mean that we reject or polarise ourselves based on who other people are.

This is just being human, the way I see it.