Quote Originally Posted by Atomic View Post
Sort of, but not really. I mean that is how women influencing men are changing them. For the worse. Men should be rough around the edges.
They should be? Why? And who are you to decide what men should be? Why can't men be whatever men want to be?

Quote Originally Posted by Atomic View Post
You can have feelings if you want. I don't but... (This isn't really true, men have them but no idea how to express them.)
...Isn't that a bad thing? Isn't more emotional intelligence, and a greater ability to deal with emotions in a productive way a good thing?

I have to say your difference between boy and man is just a difference between child and adult.

Furthermore, and more worryingly, the first response, with the yelling and name-calling, is a pretty typical man-ish response. I mean, resorting straight away to anger and aggression is testosterone city, isn't it? Obviously not all men do this, I rush to point out, but the second response -- the understanding one -- suggests a deeper emotional intelligence, and a willingness to compromise, that are NOT typical masculine traits. I would say that that kind of emotional intelligence is GROWING. Men aren't turning into sissies. They're turning into better functioning people. (Some of them.)

Quote Originally Posted by Atomic View Post
And women should strive to be something a man can respect. The differences between a man and a woman are awesome and I hate that people are trying to close that gap. And that gap.
The differences between men and women are limited to the placement of their genitals. Name one other difference that applies globally to men and women, go ahead.

As for women striving to be something a man can respect? I mean, that is an absolutely foul sentiment. Why should a woman be beholden to the desires of a man?! They are their own people -- women do not exist for the benefit or to win the respect of men! Besides, as I've already covered, "men" are all very different -- there is no one thing that gets you the respect of "men".

Your views on the subject are tragically outdated, closed-minded and uneducated.