So, now that men are having to carrying some of the unpaid burden of the reproductive economy (ie. housework, child-rearing, etc) does that mean we are going to have a decreased working week and finally start getting towards the leisure society that we've been promised for the last fifty years?

Socialist feminists wrote about this years ago. Bettina probably wasn't listening.

We men can no longer just slip down to the local for a quick beer after dinner with ya mates, have a chat about Tim Blair, then duck around to the local brothel for some sexual relief before trotting back home to pick up the fast car and have a quick burn down the freeway with ya mates in the small hours of the morning.

Heh. Speak for yourself!

On a more serious note, I should note here that men like me owe a debt to the feminists.

There's no longer the pressure on men to actually get married and have a family. It's perfectly acceptable now to be a 30something bloke and be single.

My dad, now, he was in an unhappy marriage working away at his career to keep his unhappy wife and 2 screaming kids happy when he would rather have been ambling by in the pub. Why did he do this? Because that was the expectation on men when you grew up in rural SA.

Instead of being in the rat race, paying off a mortgage I am free to potter away in my undemanding factory job. It brings in enough money for me to pay for my Foxtel and my DSL internet, and I happily spend my nights blogging away instead of being a 'family man'.

And in part I owe that freedom to feminists. So let it not be said that I'm ungrateful. Here's to you, feminists everywhere.

gary, i blogged on her article too. talk about a weird spin she has.