[NUKELIES]

I'm sitting in a sushi bar in the East Village. There's a "man" and a "woman" behind me blathering on about office politics. The woman is clearly dominant, the man is bordering on effeminate but has mentioned that he's married. Then it struck me -- is she really a woman? She talks like a boy - sounds like Huckleberry Finn without the Southern accent.

Assuming she has normally developed female genetalia - does this make her a woman? Does her behavior have any bearing on the issue?

Is the "man" a man? It seems his submissiveness would cause him to be judged as less than a man in Muslim countries. And African countries. And I guess Japan.

Women in the West have become men - at least in common situations. And men have become women - at least in the cities. This is dysfunctional.

If I were a woman, I'm not sure I would want to work in an office or boss men around. As a man I struggle constantly to rid myself of womens' fearmongering and ball-busting - because the balance has been upset and they often think they are in control. Women need dominant men, and men need submissive women - otherwise things become miserable like they are now.

Now the people behind me are talking about how "sweet" Desmond Tutu is. Seriously! Champagne socialists... Oy vey.

[Exorcist]

Women in the West have become men - at least in common situations. And men have become women - at least in the cities.

That's not true....you've been watching too many Jewish TV programmes....lol.

[rerevisionist]

You've been to China, Japan, India, the US, Canada and Mexico, Europe ... and yet in another post you said Cheadle in Cheshire is the most sinister place in the world???? Maybe sushi doesn't agree with you!

[NUKELIES]

Lol - in the first world I said.

India's so upside down backwards doesn't apply. I went to a Kali Mandir in Moradabad where they worship a murderous black god that looks like a Santaria Orixa. That was SINISTER.

By the way, the name of the Indian state of Orissa used to be spelled Orixa. Orixas are Yoruba voodoo gods. I wonder if there's a connexion.