Well I think it's a useful, interesting thread, and I think the friction between the two main camps makes it a better discussion. Really pretty civil compared to where it could have gone.
I think it's easy, if incorrect to characterise the old timers as wishing for a return to the male/female dynamics of their youth and the 1950-70's. I realise they're just expressing fondness for it but in my own head I hear them crying out to turn the clock back, and I think it sounds stubborn and frankly, impossible. I know, I know, it's a total cariacature, I'm just identifiying my own prejudices on this issue.
Likewise it seems Zarky and others are being painted as tacitly approving (if not assisting?!) the feminist machine because they advocate adaptation to the current dating environment rather than the undoing of said machine.
I am pretty sure adaptation is the way to go, but when you talk about the unravelling of the feminist machine, what are we talking about? A men's movement?
Deliberate social engineering just leads to unintended and usually negative consequences.
I think some aspects of feminism will be spontaneously and collectively undone and when it happens I doubt the end result will look much like the dynamics of the 50's-70's, it'll be something new, the game will change again and it'll require more adaptation.....at such time Zarky, Boilermaker and myself will probably rail against it and feel entitled to remind the young'uns just how much easier it was in the days before we all had sex monitoring nano-chips (Futurama, anyone?) and how easy online dating was
If I've grossly distorted anyone's argument, as I surely have, no harm intended.