This is MY kind of book! (WARNING: If you feminists can't take criticism, don't read.)

I'll be the first to admit: I'm horrible when it comes to keeping up with the news. My TIME subscription is essentially for toilet reading, and it's always at least a month and several issues overdue. So forgive me if you realise this was taken from a February issue earlier this year haha...

Just read this book review on the 'Self-Made Man', written by this lady called Norah Vincent. "She spent 18 months dressing, talking, working, and dating as a man.". How cool is that? What you got to love about this woman is that, unlike so many self-righteous feminists out there, she actually MADE AN EFFORT to understand the male psyche. Plus in the process, she got see some things from our point of view.

Let me address the second point first, regarding "how much sexual power women have over men, AND HOW ICILY THEY WIELD IT". Any guy with slightly less blood in his loins and more shunted to his brain will realise that once you're intimate with a girl, you're no longer truly your own man. Face it, it's our nature to think with our dicks. But what we should lament is that often-times, you're not in the best of hands. There was this hilarious comedy called "Heartbreakers" starring Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt, which exposed this underlying fact: Mother and daughter teamed up to con unsuspecting males. While the media often displays the physical dominance by men over women (wife abuse and the like), they tend not to highlight the less-obvious exploitation of many a foolish dick (pun intended).

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What Vincent discovered, was that the gender gap, Mars and Venus, was "even more unleapable than she had expected". And this, THIS I must quote whole-sail, it's beautiful. "But she did come to believe that some feminist sniping at men is just too easy, that if women tried harder to understand men, they'd realise that men too are trapped by patriachal prejudices in their own way. 'I think men have been sort of forced to learn women's language, through the feminist movement, but women haven't seemed to evince a curiosity in learning men's language'.". BRAVO NORAH!

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Yes, to any feminist who's read this by now and wants to throttle me, I AM A CHAUVINIST. I'll hold doors open for girls (and scold them if they don't say 'thank you'), and I'll carry the shopping bags. I seriously have a problem with the wanton, unfounded, generalisation that "all guys suck". Maybe it's just the feminist attitude that needs an urgent re-evaluation, and not the eradication of all MANkind. Don't take it from me, take it from Norah.