Two things:
Location. I lived in DC and dating there is horrendous. Male and female all act like men, but not like gentlemen. Both lack any social skills whatever and back stab in a heartbeat. On the other hand, women in California, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Hell, anywhere not on the East Coast from Richmond to Boston, in my experience, were just friendlier and more human. About the only place in DC where women were friendly were in Country-Western bars. Probably due to their background and the common interest in dancing.
2. Media. Widowed Guy and Kevin M. picked up on the way men are portayed, particularly white men. I will never touch a bowl of Cheerios again because of the way men are portrayed in their Ad campaign. The latest is when a snarky know-it-all wife chides her husband for trying to finish his “To Do” list. He busts his butt trying to get things done, like a moron. Meanwhile wifey poo flits around eating bowls of Cheerios with an “I told you so” look on her face.
The other Cheerios commercial involves a clueless husband who asks his wife if she is trying to lose weight because Cheerios are low fat. He then is subjected to a Spanish Inquisition in which he demonstrates his already emasculated state by his limp responses to her harsh counter-attack.
People should just be nicer to each other. That, and join my nation-wide boycott of Cheerios.
