What the hell's gone wrong with women?

Sorry, but it is women and not the men who gush about what they are cooking for dinner, how hot the weather is, how they are thinking of certain friends, how they got stung by nettles on a walk, how they enjoyed this film or other. Zzzzzzz.

Honestly, what's going wrong with women these days? They used to so interesting. In the 1970s and '80s feminism shook them up, made them say challenging and funny things, but now so many women are becoming girlie again.

I was proud to know some great feminist women in the late 1970s and 1980s. Like many men at the time, I considered myself a feminist. I still do, which is why I'm worried about what's happening to women now.

It's tempting to blame moronic TV shows such as Sex And the City and Desperate Housewives, celebrity magazines and the evil cosmetics and fashion industries for making women so dull, so I will.

C'mon girls! There's got to be more to life than shoes and paying over the odds to have your hair tortured.

Women don't even seem to make good music any more. Look at Girls Aloud - what lightweight creatures. They try so hard to be sexy, and fail.

And when I see women singer-songwriters on the live circuit in Merseyside, blimey, it's clear for them there are only three themes guiding women's songs.

(1) My man is so awful
(2) My man doesn't understand me
(3) Errr, that's it!

Women poets, I must say, usually (though not always!) rise above that man-bashing and feeling sorry for themselves "creative" mindset.

Anyway, In an attempted parody of the type of thing posted by women on Facebook I recently posted the following "status"...

"Steve Regan has just had a buttered cream cracker. And me ankle's itchy. Errrrr, isn't that the sort of vapidity you're supposed to post on here? C'mon! I'm new to this..."

It got about seven comments in response, and no-one took umbrage, which is good.

But I'm still gonna have a cull of my Facebook friends. Some people just aren't cool enough to be in my gang.

My male friends, in the main, will survive the cull, though one or two of them are pushing their luck by using the site to promote commercial enterprises - eeuwgh, how vulgar!