(I should have been a middle school teacher.* I chose _not_ to
   because of being single and I was taking child psych courses
   during the "MEN ARE SEX PERVERTS FOR YOUR CHILDREN".* This was
   1990/1, smack inbetween two waves of "single men are bad
   because..." movements in media and society. So, I gave up my
   dream.* Did other things instead. BELIEVE me I understand.* At
   18 years old, fed up with being disrespected for being young, I
   started up the first kid/teen rights group on the Internet.*
   It's documented - it's 'out there'.* I got thousands of people
   together, worked with UNICEF and the UN even... little 18-23
   year old me, the Internet was young and wasn't yet fully
   "public". Included in youth rights were adult rights as well.*
   Ageism was always a big issue for me.* At 43 years old it still
   is.* I haven't changed my views because I vowed I'd never forget
   what it was like to be young and voiceless. But it's not
   politics: It's an individuals right to be UNDERSTOOD and not
   treated as a "something" because they fit into a category. Now
   why did I digress to this? People think differently.* You and I
   for example.* We're both men.* Yet, we think differently.* We
   reason differently.* We comprehend and process the world
   differently. Women are also individuals with different
   reasoning, comprehension and processing. Yet, there ARE places
   where men _tend_ to think similarly.* There are places where
   women _tend_ to think similarly.* So, _some_ categorization *is*
   possible, when taken with care. Since I have never been a woman,
   my opinions about "what women are like" is necessarily _limited_
   to an outsider's perspective.* But I try my best. If I
   CRITICIZE, I try to _only_ criticize THAT WHICH I KNOW.. which
   is being a man.* So, I will criticize men and male behavior
   _more_ than I will female behavior. I'm a fan of Science.*
   Because of that, I criticize science more harshly because *I
   EXPECT MORE*. I expect more out of all men because I expect more
   out of myself. This does not mean I expect less of women.* But
   it means the amount I can attempt to "speak for them" _does_
   have a few fundamental limitations, as much as I *want* gender
   lines to be erased. So, that's why I was a man criticizing men,
   rather than a man critizicing women.* I've never been a woman.*
   I only know so much. It's hard enough being a man among men and
   attempting to say, "WE MEN THUS..." because I'm not all men, all
   men think differently.* The whole process of generalization and
   specialization simultaneously is _not_ easy to balance out... at
   least not for me.* But I try.