Sorry - had a night's sleep in between! I do think good parenting matters, as well as good education about emotional intelligence and a culture that raises them to be more in tune with this and what is acceptable. I heard a great talk on the radio last night which was quite timely about how we need to do away with feminism precisely because we should work toward community - no either/or, rising of female to oppress trad male energies, but a world that finds solutions together, and though it seems idealistic, we should all be doing that with everything we do and say.

Bless, I know that you meant that unwanted male attention didn't mean rape, but I guess now you realise that's where we see it going, as woman who are subject to these things. And if we allow those 'little' things, where does one draw the line? Is it okay to make a JOKE about woman, for example, being chained to the kitchen when domestic violence is one of the biggest killers of woman in the world??? Certainly Australia it is.

I do think that stat is probably less that it definitely is - and I know the stats for male victims is also much, much higher but is under reported. What a world we live in - it can be really depressing at times.