What's wrong with men?

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With men, this is how thinsg go. When things go ugly, they yell, maybe fight or cool off, then simmer, and finally will cool down at soem point in the next week or two.

When women fight, they snipe at each other, call each other whore, b***h, slut, bimbo, and even when they appear to have forgiven each other, they still try to drive each other insane with rage.

Damn, how f*****g stupid.

I do agree about a lot of men not being clean though. But some women can be like it too. I hate germs

I think this argument and train of thought started somewhere around 50,000 years ago and still has some time to go before it is resolved.

Now I think some posting here have serious issues that go far beyond the scope of the original question which was fairly generic.

I consider myself to be something of a feminist, at least following on from my mother. I believe women are still unfairly disadvantaged in many areas of life, and that more attention needs to be drawn to such difficulties. However, within my age group I personally have gotten along much better with men than women. That might be a social/cultural thing since I'm a guy who is usually interested in male-dominated activities, or it could partly be down to my own anxieties, but either way that's been my experience. All but one of the twenty or so people who have been good friends with me for any period have been male.

That said I know some men, even my age, who are pretty nasty with women. Flirting for some of them involves saying horrible things in an only half-joking manner, or they just think of women as a lower form of life in several respects. I make a point of generally going silent and (perhaps literally) walking away from their conversations about women. Most of the men I know, at least in college, are more egalitarian.

All I have to do is walk around my campus to see some guy flirting with a female by telling them semi-jokingly they are fat, ugly, and slu*ty. I have no idea why those girls put up with that s**t.

If I tried that, it would never work because it wouldn't come out right.

I define a male-dominated activity to be one where the great majority of people who partake in it are male.

I don't regard my father as being irresponsible, but my parents separated when I was quite young and I lived with my mother since I was four. I have a great deal of admiration for my mother, who certainly is responsible and hard-working (and has had a successful life with it), and she's had a major influence on me in many respects. I can't say I dislike women, but I have had a hard time getting along with most of them and since I entered my teens many seemed suspicious of me. In my secondary school, I found that after I managed to shake off the bullies I was at least tolerated and accepted by all of the guys in my year but I still was hardly on speaking terms with most of the girls.

Looking at my Facebook profile, about 3/4 of my "friends" there are men, but this is the same for the guys I know in my mathematics classes with girlfriends. That might have to do with our "male-dominated activity", which is mathematics work. The guys I know in the arts faculty have a more even spread of acquaintances. Apart from that, I'm not sure how much of the above has to do with the women I know and how much of the above has to do with me and my own anxieties.