HI @Brendan and the community, as you see, there are responses. I guess that my post might be very unpopular, but hey, who cares. This, and many other indicators are but a clear sign that this civilisation is at the brink of existence. It is Sodom and Gomorrah, but no one dares saying it. Everything goes as long it brings pleasure. Succumbing to all perversions and even flaunting and promoting it. Celebration of the corrosion of morals and lack of conscience is seen as "progressive". It sure is - "progressive" - we are progressing rapidly toward the end of civilisation. Women and men have naturally different roles, but they are - equal. However, equal does not mean the same. It is not interchangeable who has a p...s/strap on depending on a rainy day or who won the footy on Saturday. Anatomy, physiology and biology can certainly attest to that. As for the shrinking balls in some among male population... It is interlinked with the aggressiveness in some among female population. We are yin/yang and currently there is more yin (female energy) in a man and more yang (male energy) in a woman. Two opposing but unbalanced energies DO NOT make a balanced duo. ever. full stop. DISCLAMER | I am a woman, a mother, and oh so proud to be one. And I believe in the importance of education (being a doctor attests to that) presence in a work force and natural wish to develop and evolve. However I do not believe in aggressive pursuit of a careers, and the above mentioned perverse relations and mixing the natural roles and faculties and trying to be like a man. And vice versa, man who spends more time in front of the mirror fiddling with the hair and tweezers is unbalanced in the energies. As I am - a woman. And I have a deep respect for - real women And I have a deep respect for - real men. And compassion for everyone else. And it might surprise you that Nikola Tesla (my country man, so proud to say it) addresses that issue, in a subtler ways, but uncertain terms. EXCERPTS | +++ "I had always thought of woman," says Mr. Tesla, "as possessing those delicate qualities of mind and soul that made her in these respects far superior to man. I had put her on a lofty pedestal, figuratively speaking, and ranked her in certain important attributes considerably higher than man. I worshiped at the feet of the creature I had raised to this height, and, like every true worshiper, I felt myself unworthy of the object of my worship. "But all this was in the past. Now the soft-voiced gentle woman of my reverent worship has all but vanished. In her place has come the woman who thinks that her chief success in life lies in making herself as much as possible like man--in dress, voice and actions, in sports and achievements of every kind." +++ "The world has experienced many tragedies, but to my mind the greatest tragedy of all is the present economic condition wherein women strive against men, and in many cases actually succeed in usurping their places in the professions and in industry. This growing tendency of women to overshadow the masculine is a sign of a deteriorating civilization. "Woman's determined competition with man in the business world is breaking down some of the best traditions--things which have proved the moving factors in the world's slow but substantial progress. +++ "Perhaps the male in human society is useless. I am frank to admit that I don't know. If women are beginning to feel this way about it--and there is striking evidence at hand that they do--then we are entering upon the cruelest period of the world's history. +++ "Woman's discontent makes the life of the present day still more overstressed. The high pitch given to existence by people who are restless and dissatisfied because they fail to achieve things wholly out of proportion to the health and talent with which Nature has endowed them is a bad thing for the world. "It seems to me that women are not particularly happy in this newly found freedom, in this new competition which they are waging so persistently against men in business and the professions and even in sport. The question that naturally arises is, whether the women themselves are the gainers or the losers. +++ with respect and compassion Mona