So you claim society is sexist. You’re right.

Why does primary and secondary education treat boyishness like a disease — with focus going on female students who consequently get higher grades? Or single-mother families who raise sons and daughters with no father figures meaning girls don’t have proper expectations of a man and boys themselves don’t have a role-model which cripples them socially later on in life which is especially hard considering females are more socially tuned than males and better able to think in ways which are valued in modern society.

Women are less likely to actively complain to management and less likely to question and their focus and drive tends to be more intense.

This means that rather than there actually be gender equality, males become uneducated and as their strength is no longer required — nor are their masculine qualities — males no longer have a position in society.

This frustration has to go somewhere, doesn’t it? Older men already in seats of power have seen this happening and aren’t exactly going to hand the pedestal equally when they know it spells the end of their own gender equality, are they?

They’re going to treat women unfairly because they’re frightened they’ll go extinct because society favors female development over male development. Worse still, this means ‘manly’ men favored by women (who let’s be honest prefer alpha males every time over ‘sweet caring sensitive guys’) are effectively going extinct. This is why there are ‘no good men’.

I’m not blaming anyone but we should widen our scope of attention and genuinely enforce actual equality rather than over-compensate for one side and tip the balance in their favor, as we have. A guy cries rape? Noone listens. A girl cries rape? Proof or not, he risks going to prison and even if he doesn’t, it could ruin his career. Now that’s fucked up — and yes, women do rape men. It does happen.

As for wages? All you have to do is pluck up the courage to ask. The number of males to females asking for raises is skewed toward males but the proportion who are accepted is actually about equal.

Go be brave. Ask for a raise.

Men are abused every day.

In ways so subtle that you’d just expect them to compensate or react — but they can’t, because society has double standards of gender.

The worst thing is when a girl expects you to pay for dinner and then never calls you back.

What, you want equality and now you seriously expect me to continue filling the role of a provider? Get real.

For the record, not all gay guys are fashion gurus designed to appease your sense of humour while seeming non-threatening like tiny squeaky toy-dogs of men as so many wish them to be. Its just another state of sexuality that excludes women.

The men in prostitution and gay male pornography may also be exploited, but they are a small minority, and an exploited woman, no matter how much she is bribed to accept that, is still exploited. Your idea of symmetrical exploitation in this thoroughly sexist society makes about as much sense as the men's rights activists who claim as many men are battered by women as women are battered by men.

Gail Dines’ book is a powerful resource for those of us who want to reclaim our sexuality and not have it defined by an industry that is interested in making money off of women’s bodies. It’s the awakening that a generation of feminist need in order to realize how far our culture has moved from the messages of true empowerment that feminists used to demand — empowerment centered on equality and respect.

“Random Observer- So you don’t disagree that sex isn’t the answer to everything?”

Who the ever said it was? Just what kind of straw man are you battling?