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“We don’t need men anymore!”

That is according to a spirited 23 year old work colleague. She continues, “There’s enough sperm on ice for us to do away with you lot altogether. Men really are a waste of space these days!”

And so arrived the new underclass: the biggest minority in the western world is now surplus to the procreational requirements of the female of the species. Our uselessness is finally and irrefutably confirmed… at least to subscribers of ‘femthink’.

This year’s tennis tournament at Wimbledon nicely demonstrates the rising dominance of femthink: the women’s prize money matches that of the men for the first time in history, largely as a response to lobbying by Venus Williams. Last year she said, “It’s really about an equality issue, about being created as equals, as human beings… We’re the premier sport for women. We would like to empower women around the world by showing that we are willing to fight for equality.”

So, with that strident justification, it now seems that women deserve equal prize money to men - despite playing only the best-of-three sets of tennis per match compared to the best-of-five for the men.

Why do they deserve the same prize if they play fewer games per match? Because, we are told, the female style of playing is more interesting, with better rallies. After all, men merely serve rocket-propelled balls at each other and rarely return them. It’s barely tennis we play these days, and certainly not as entertaining as the women. Anyway, the femthinkers continue, tournaments are about achieving a win and not about being paid per game or set.

So, they say, let’s ignore the fact that men’s matches consist of more games, are physically more demanding and are usually significantly longer - women have a right to equal pay. Never mind the inherent inequality equal prize money creates.

The reality is that women tennis players generally earn more than men. Why? Because they play fewer sets per match, which leaves them able to play more matches such as doubles and achieve additional prize money that way. They also play fewer games than men within a match, which means their per game earnings are actually higher.

So the hysterical femthinkers, including the UK’s Culture Secretary, Tessa Jowell - who put pressure on Wimbledon’s bosses to equalize the prizes because such an outdated inequality was “tarnishing the image of the Championship” - have once again managed to blind us with dazzling dishonesty. So-called equality triumphs over common sense and fairness.

The pervasiveness of this attitude towards men is now so established it barely registers as abnormal - even to most males. The last few decades’ attack on manliness and the deceptions of the so called metrosexuals have left us in no doubt as to our emasculated role in life.

Recent scientific evidence confirms our worst fears: despite having bigger brains we are in fact inferior as women’s brains are ‘better’. Oh, of course they are rather like their tennis rallies. Anyway, we’ve known for years that women have naturally greater social skills and are more co-operative whereas men are aggressively competitive individualists. It almost goes without saying that the latter characteristics have no place in modern society.

Or do they?

The fact remains that successful entrepreneurs of both sexes, the drivers of wealth creating employment, invariably exhibit these so-called male characteristics. In spades. Mmm.

Well, surely our spatial skills are acknowledged to be higher - men must be better at something. How about driving? All males instinctively ‘know’ women can’t drive: females do their make-up in the rear view mirror, cannot park or navigate roundabouts successfully, and don’t concentrate on the task in hand…

Sadly, no.

Women are better drivers too, we are told. This is because they are adept at multi-tasking (and presumably don’t need to use the whole of their considerably better brains just to drive), are less aggressive (ah!), generally drive more slowly and are consequently much safer.

Men drive too fast. We take more risks. Insurance statistics prove it: women have fewer serious road traffic accidents.

Except that women, on average, drive fewer miles, which somewhat skews things (where are the statistics for accidents per ten thousand miles driven to compare male and female safety records?). And how many formula one drivers wear skirts?

Oops. Sorry…

Of course, femthinkers would cite a historic lack of opportunity and the ‘glass ceiling’ for a dearth of female talent in any male dominated arena. This is despite the fact that, these days, school girls outshine boys academically - a reality acknowledged to be a consequence of an educational approach that is skewed towards the female way of learning.

There is a more obvious answer to the apparent inequalities that exist despite the most fervent feminist voices: men and women really are different.

Surely we don’t have to keep pursuing a false ideal of equality in all things - driven by irrational femthink - and its consequent attacks on the male psyche? Can’t we be content with creating equal opportunities as best we can, and accept that some things are our forte and others theirs?

It won’t happen, I know.

Meanwhile I will console myself with the comment to which my femthinking colleague had no answer: “You are probably carrying no more than a few hundred eggs in your womb, but just one teaspoonful of my sperm could impregnate every fertile women on the North American continent.”

Vive la difference!

Source:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tennis/4942608.stm