In this column I pose questions and raise issues. I don't always agree with the conclusion, implied or stated. The purpose is to put a slightly different spin on each item and to promote discussion.

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• With apologies to bigots everywhere, this dot-com, which has been on-line since early 1995, is not going away.
• Who really has the sexual power in America? According to Table No. 55 of the 2001 Statistical Abstract of the U.S., age 18 to 44 there are 1.1 million more females than males in America. (Age 18 to 64, the difference is even larger: 3 million more females than males). This means there are 1.1 million women who, during their child-bearing years, either have to go without male companionship, or share with other women (e.g., open relationships, divorce, etc.). Factor in the larger size of the gay community relative to the lesbian community, and the gap grows even more. Question is, if female companionship is so much more abundant than male companionship, why are men letting the pop feminists devalue and disempower men?
• From multi-billionaires to small businesses, from Bill Clinton to ordinary citizens, Americans are shouting, "I take no responsibility." A single president can't change something like that in one or two terms, but he can start the country down a different path.
• On March 8th, women around the world will go on strike to demand, among other things, wages for hitherto uncompensated housework. Question is, who would pay. Men? If so, then shouldn't women also pay men for the hitherto uncompensated work men do?
• If all the women in the world went on strike on March 8th, the world would notice. Some things would not get done, many people would be inconvenienced, and they would get some attention. What they hope none will realize, however, is that were men to go on strike, western civilization would collapse.
• Not that it matters to me whether a demopublican or a republicrat is president, but if the Bush camp knew all along that W. really won Florida, why were they afraid of a recount?
• You can't stop sexism by being sexist.
• There was a time when movie violence had a cathartic quality. Lately, however, it has become angrier; stoking the flames rather than putting them out. Every time I see The Matrix - one of my favorite films - I think of Columbine.
• Maybe men should patent their genetic code so that any woman attempting to use that code to create a baby would be liable for licensing fees.
• Lest we forget, when a woman abandons a baby, who consequently dies, that's murder.
• The question we must all answer is, when our time comes, as it does for all, will we go with a sigh of regret, or satisfaction?
• Seattle-area pundits regard the Fat Tuesday rioting as an off-shoot of the violence that marred the WTO summit in 1999. Such a simplistic explanation ignores more ominous aspects of modern American society - the historically low wages, the globally expansive power and virtual invulnerability of multi-national corporations, the growing violations of human rights in America while our government makes a show of defending the rights of people in other countries, and the consistent willingness of our courts to trample on the will of the people whether that means ignoring state's rights, as in the Florida ballot issue, or upholding state's rights as in the Alabama ADA case. All of which makes us wonder, are we in for a repeat of the protests of the 1960s-1970s?
• When men don't listen to women, pop feminists lament women's frustration and proclaim to the world that men oppress women; but when women don't listen to men, pop feminists celebrate men's frustration and proclaim to the world that men oppress women.
• "Mail-order bride" Anastasia Solovieva King was murdered late last year; her Seattle-area American husband is a suspect. In 1995, Susana Blackwell, a mail-order bride from the Philippines, was murdered by her American husband. Predictably, local fear-mongers are calling for investigations while pop feminists howl about male badness. Without trivializing these crimes, we should not forget what motivated them: Less than two weeks after she arrived in America, Blackwell walked out on her husband, got pregnant by another man, then filed for divorce. In court, she told many lies about him. He had no prior history of violence. In the King case, she was flagrantly promiscuous. In both cases, the murders, while unpardonable, were motivated by the malicious behavior of the women.
• The thing about expressing individuality through fashion is, no matter what you wear you're conforming to the style of a particular group. As long as style is tied to fashion, it isn't about individuality but conformity.
• Are you a woman considering marrying a divorced father? Remember, once you're married his ex can file a "material change of circumstance" stipulating that a portion of your assets and income be included in calculating his child support payments to her. In other words, marry a divorced father, help pay to support his ex-wife.
• Black actor Tommy Davidson says Black braggadocio isn't about ego but about survival of Black masculinity because everybody else in America dumps on them. (Politically Incorrect, February 22, 2001) What about the Blacks who dump on American Indians? Or the pop feminist pundits who dump on men in general? Would Martin Luther King Jr. have said braggadocio is the answer? Not a chance. Regardless of race, as men we can and should do better.
• Another guest on the February 22, 2001, Politically Incorrect noted February is Black History month and asked why Black history isn't celebrated all year long. Would they also allow us to celebrate White, Asian, Hispanic and Indian history all year long, too? Or can we just value ethnic history for what it is - the history of humanity - and otherwise go about the business of living our lives?
• I finally saw Garry Shandling's What Planet Are Your From, and while the people who commented about the movie in the "behind the scenes" segment that followed the show had a lot to say about how Shandling's insightful portrayal of men as emotionless, insensitive automatons who are not very good at communicating, nobody remarked the equally insightful portrayal of women as emotionally erratic, insensitive, egocentric and equally poor at communicating. Truth be told, the story was less a portrayal of how men really are, than how both women and men view and experience members of the opposite sex.
• Alan Greenspan says there is no rational basis for the erosion of consumer confidence in the economy; what he may not understand is, with the election of George W. Bush, Americans caught a glimpse of who holds the real power in America, who controls our electoral process, our justice system, the legislative and political branches, and it is an alarming revelation.
• Pop feminists accuse any man who stands up to them of being a sexist bully.
• I have heard women who complained that men aren't masculine anymore turn around and call men bullies for being masculine.
• Pop feminists blame their own sexist attitudes on men.
• Smugly we sat back and gave ourselves a pat on the back for landing a little satellite on a big rock which, were we not so preoccupied with who Clinton was boinking and how Bush II will compare to Bush I, we would be mining for minerals already. Instead, we sit glued to our toobs filling our porcine bellies with fat-building calories booing and hissing at Jerry's current poor excuses for humanity. Nearby space is loaded with resources; what are we waiting for?
• One goal of the Liberal agenda is to encourage Americans to think. Nothing wrong with that, thinking is a good thing. Unfortunately, the Liberal agenda has had just the opposite effect, encouraging Americans to think less and second guess themselves and others more.
• By ignoring female-perpetrated domestic violence, United Way of Canada and the White Ribbon Campaign make themselves hate groups vilifying men.
• People who decline DNA testing to prove parentage, whether in defense or proof of an allegation, should lose their case. However, the cost of DNA testing ought to fall on the one initiating the case, regardless of whether it is to prove or dispute parentage.
• Viagra, a potentially dangerous drug used by sex-crazed female rapist-wannabes to turn men into boy toys. Oh, sorry! Been reading too many pop feminist I'm-a-victim diatribes, and it just got to me. But I'm all right, now. "Oppressors!" No, really.
• Men need to learn how to act decisively in relationships. When the women in our lives begin to play games with us, if we're not married we need to break up with them, no messing around. If we are married, we need to assert our equality in the relationship, and if that fails, be the first one to file for divorce.
• Maybe the time has come for men to boycott Valentine's Day.
• Banning members is a list owner's right. I do it to members who spread lies or promote violence. But pop feminists, such as the list owners of Global Sisterhood Network, do it for disagreement. In this, they are no different from the misogynistic extremists who own the Patriarchy and Demand lists.
• Recently, I joined the Global Sisterhood Network list. In a post promoting equality I mentioned that on the continuum of abuse, the only type dominated by men is sex abuse. When another member challenged me to support this, I provided links to a site with hundreds of references as well as an official US government site. Their reply: dehumanization and objectification, blatant lies, insults, and renewed claims of victimhood. Her proof, my disagreement; her response, banishment. This demonstrates their aversion to the truth, that any claim to equality is a sham, their only motivation, androphobia, their only goal, domination.
• When the Dixie Chicks sing about murdering men, that's admirable, but when Eminem replies in kind, that's misogyny.
• "You can prove anything you want with statistics" is the perfect cop out...unless you want a manufactured item, like an airplane, a car or your television to work.
• According to some pundits, girls are competent to have sex and decide for themselves whether to get an abortion should they get pregnant, but they are incompetent to fall in love.
• In my experience, pop feminists are abusive beyond measure, unapologetically bigoted, haphazard in their hate speech, disinterested in real gender equality and without remorse for the men and families their actions and policies destroy.
• With the decades of attention focused on how men exploit women, when will we begin to deal with the ways in which women exploit men?
• For several years, I have strongly supported Netscape. Although I prefer to use MSIE as my default browser, I liked Netscape for more nimble jaunts across the web. No more. Recently, after several attempts to load the new Netscape 6 failed miserably, I reloaded Netscape Communicator only to find that no matter how many times I chose otherwise, it automatically took over as the default browser on my system. Goodbye, Netscape, it was fun until you started acting like the Redmond Bully.
• Rather than opposing pop feminist sponsored legislation, perhaps men's rights activists should provide support so they can participate in writing the legislation.
• Education should be about learning, not grades and grading. With that in mind, students should be required to know every subject 100%. A school which focuses on learning would neither grade tests (A, B, C, etc.) nor put students in grades (First, Second, Third, etc.), but would put every student through a series of course which must be learned 100% to pass. Although some students would advance more rapidly than others, they could still be grouped by age as, once they know how to read, a teacher would be less an instructor than a facilitator assisting pupils with their studies and providing discipline rather than acting as a gatekeeper of knowledge.
• Those who lack integrity can redefine their way out of any argument.
• If the experience of many American Indians is any indicator, reparations to African Americans for slavery in the old south would be very harmful to Blacks. Here's why: periodically a Tribe will win some lawsuit with the Federal government which results in a disbursement of cash to members of that tribe. Typically, these mostly poor people who have little experience with managing money lose it. The money would be better spent on education.
• While Democrats carp about how Nader lost Gore the election, Gore put the blame where it really belongs: President Clinton's peccadilloes.
• Regarding Microsoft's appeal, which many are now predicting will go in the company's favor, the facts are: the company has arrogantly ignored the consent decree they signed more than 5 years ago; they repeatedly lied; they were openly disdainful of the case, the judge and the court; they refused numerous opportunities to settle the case, and they have consistently hindered innovation and limited consumer choices (just try to buy a PC without MS Windows and get it deducted from the price) with their monopolistic...er, competitive practices. Why isn't the DOJ legal team raising these issues? With the Bush administration did we also get a new enforcement agenda predicated upon a "corporations can do no wrong" principle? Whatever happened to "justice is blind"? Maybe it is a good thing that "Lady Liberty" is blindfolded because I think she would not like what she would see right now. - contributed by a former IS Manager for whom troubleshooting and solving MS product problems meant job security.