I commend the arguments you have fostered. The commentary is as entertaining as the article itself.

Yet I am bemused by the generalities that infest so much of op-ed discourse. Most women, Most men, ad nauseam.

Have we no factual data to lend verifiable gravitas to so elusive an issue?

Further, to assume this is an occurrence of recent times is to deny the value of so many great scribes. (Surely most readers valued bear witness to the classics oft trundled before us.)

Do we assume that the Bard had no inkling of the strife existing between genders when;

- Othello 'put out the light,'?

- that Act 1 sc. 7 Lady Macbeth's vaunting ambition could not parallel modern American women?

- that Macbeth is meek and forced to surrender to an overbearing manipulative partner?

- that Malvolio was too in touch with his feminine side and Sir Toby Belch was the typical American male?

- that Ophelia and Juliet lacked strength in the depth of their passion?

- The Taming of the Shrew?

I commend your 'stirring of the cauldron' yet the generalities bear not the spice of eye of newt and hair of toad.

When such ugly discourse flares I always think of Julius Caesar, "The fault lies not in our stars but in ourselves that we are the underlings.'

Assumptions and generalities are a plague to good dialogue.

Thanks for stirring,

from one joined, challenged, and supported for over 43 years by another intrepid soul. K