[Peter Ward]

Is it just me? Or is anyone else growing weary of Advertiser's, Hollywood's, TV & the Media's and even the education system's treatment of us mere males.

Too many adverts portray men as incompetent, dumb or needing a guiding female hand to tie their shoe-laces.

Hollywood dishes up female butt-kicking Amazons (tiny, but often attractive) to whom six foot seven first-rower is nothing but a minor inconvenience.

Community male "authority figures" (eg, bus/train conductors, big burly coppers who'd give you a literal kick up the bum as a kid if you were naughty) have been hunted to extinction.

The cirriculum at our schools has swung so far toward teaching the fairer sex that boys are being left behind.

Touchy-feely is in. Macho behaviour is often illegal, or bubble wraped to such an extent it's not longer fun (just have a look at the Personal Water Craft laws in NSW)

(Dirty) Harry Callahan's are no longer PC.

Yet given the shootings/stabbings/muggings/violence, particularly on Sydney streets I can't help but think more the pity......