In this column I pose questions and raise issues. I don't always agree with the conclusion, implied or stated. The purpose is to put a slightly different spin on each item and to promote discussion.

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• The only thing more hierarchical than a team is a clique.

• The positions advocated by the organizers of the Million Woman March must make the leadership at the National Organization for Women want to vomit. They must be doing something right.

• You're never wanted so much as when you're wanted. Women will ignore a guy until he has a girlfriend or is married, but once another woman wants him, they want him, too.

• The only thing that infuriates a misandristic lesbian more than a man who is indifferent to her "disinterest" in men, are men who get off on her being a lesbian.

• "If you must put a label on it" is the refuge of someone who has no answers, only complaints.

• "Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings, too," is a central slogan at NOW. Evidently, there is no room in their radical notion for the fact women are also as bad as men.

• As members of a commonwealth, we bear certain responsibilities for the history of our institutions. To see to it that our nation upholds its historical obligations. We are not, however, culpable for what our predecessors did once upon a time. Only for what we do now and in the future.

• In response to the many independent studies indicating women are as abusive as men, pop feminists point to the context of the studies, i.e., conflict, confrontation, an argument already engaged, and protest that outside this context of conflict, men are far more abusive -- initiate violence far more often -- than do women. They ignore the continuum of conflict many women create in relationships. Passive aggressive whining, "good-natured" put-downs, catty comments about male nature, sexual teasing followed by "not tonight, I've got a headache." They don't understand how the continuum of conflict creates a hostile environment that turns a relationship into the nightmare that leads to the male violence pop feminists claim springs out of no where. Obviously, they just don't get it.

• Better the stink of honest sweat than the stench of designer name industrial waste.

• Pop feminist lawyer Gloria Allred staunchly opposes admitting evidence about an alleged victim's sexual history in cases of alleged rape, saying juries are incompetent to hear and decide a case on the basis of all the facts (CNN, September 29, 1997), yet, she is silent about the practice of insurance and airline companies trotting out the sexual history of plaintiffs and victims in airplane crash lawsuits (a practice 20/20 exposed in 1996). Why is it okay for wealthy corporations to talk about a female plaintiff's sexual history, but not for a lone man?

• Whenever a survey indicates men are in some way "worse" than women, it's "everybody told the truth." When a survey indicates women may in some way be worse than men, it's "women were more honest than men."

• Why should we support companies that support their employees? If an employer can make higher profits for its stock holders and offer better deals to the rest of us by employing free-lancers, consultants, temps, or independent contractors who work without benefits, then why shouldn't we buy from those companies? And when our employers, seeing those higher profits on lower prices, lay off the rest of us and encourage us to come back in some temporary capacity?

• Old African saying: "If a lion threatens your wife and your mother, save your mother; you can always get another wife."

• As a human being, Di was worthy of our respect. Had Princess Diana been a man, however, women and men alike would have disrespected her as a wimp. And had she been a poor or middle class man, they would have laughed.

• Kerry Ellison, whose sexual harassment case established the "reasonable woman" standard, was an IRS agent.

• A female friend told me women are suspicious of men who are eager to get married. They assume something's wrong with him.

• Among Americans, black women and Asian men oppose interracial marriage the most.

• If it's not okay to refer to a group of African Americans as "you people," it can only be because African Americans are Americans first and, as Americans of African descent, have no special interests beyond those of any other Americans.

• Most women think a shy man is disinterested, but expect men to correctly interpret a woman's shyness.

• Movies and TV shows encourage men to spend less time on work and more time loving their wives or girlfriends. Is this a pop feminist plot (gasp!) to push men out and bring women to the forefront of work place power? If so, the problem is, few men have any real economic power.