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"After all, men have "had it all" for years."

True enough. We've had it all. We've had the duty and privilege of fighting and dying for our country. We unstop the sewers, hell, we built the sewers. We change the tires, we climb the poles during storms to keep the phones and electricity working. We'll run into a burning building and carry you down a ladder if need be - even if you're 4'0" and weigh 300 lbs. We invented the machines that enabled "the enlightened age of feminism," but we'll still move the rocks from the field, with the strength of our own backs, if that's all we have left to use. We work to support our families, then we come home and work some more. If we're lucky, we have a woman next to us who appreciates us and understands that we need her ever bit as much as she needs us. If we're unlucky, we end up with some smart@ss broad whining about how "men have it all."

Your post reminds me of Camile Paglia's statement that the great unwritten history of feminism is the history of moral men who predated modern feminism (generally thought to have begun in the early Nineteenth century). Because the history of feminism has been largely the history of female commentary and utterances, Paglia believes the history of the men who developed the moral, social, and technological groundwork for female 'liberation' to take place have been unjustly ignored.

Paglia also noted that the narrow-minded focus on "female voices" had the effect of giving feminist intellectuals a lamentably insular perspective on world history and culture. Simply put, if you only read women, you're disproportionately likely to be reading only modern authors/intellectuals because before the the 1800s so few women wrote. Paglia believe this to account for much of the skewed and ideological view of the world of most modern feminists.

This just goes to show a point so often (and so correctly) noted by Freepers: Those who claim to have the most 'open minds' are frequently those with the narrowest and most prejudicial views.