Post 141338 by stormpooper deleted for the following reason: "battle of the sexes" is, as a framing device, probably a pretty bad sign for the answerability of a question. If there's some way to ask what you're trying to ask without building it around a blanket assumption that the folks you and your friends have dated/married are fair representatives of the world at large, maybe try this again next week with your assumptions partitioned off a bit from your core question? -- cortex