Reply #29: Well, don't be that hard on yourself. That's because no one

[Cleita]

has pulled you guys down a peg or two in the last four thousand years. That's why you think you are all so entitled.

I have a theory, that until men allow women the equality and same opportunities and freedom that men have, you will never have a peaceful society. I truly believe that all the problems in the Middle East, South America, Africa and now us is because there are gender, class and racial imbalances in society that needs to be corrected. Correcting the gender imbalance alone would be a good start toward correcting the other two problems.

Have you noticed that ever since Europe has been on the path of true democracy for everyone and now that their women are pretty much achieving an equal status and economic footing, they have been peaceful and progressive societies with solid economies emerging from them?

Ireland is the latest example. Even forty years ago the Irish treated their women like milkmaids and nothing better. But a new feminism and a break with the iron rule of the Catholic Church has made Ireland so prosperous that people of Irish decent whose parents had emigrated in the last century are moving back.