Dear Asya, I do agree with you completely that both genders are at fault and there should be no fault and no wrong done at all. If people all the world over would treat each other with respect, we could probably eliminate all the stupid wars going on. My Dad was an alcoholic and my Mom was the heart of my family. She taught me so much about women and fidelity through example. She was so beautiful and she stayed with my Dad until he died in his 70's, then in her 80's, she left here also. Most of her greatest lessons to me were of respect for women, but really any feminine creature. To me, women are all the beauty on this Earth and everything comes from the 'Divine Feminine', as I call it. Any creature so beautiful, sensitive, and intelligent deserves the utmost in respect and love. You all are truly powerful in so many ways no man can see and appreciate all of them. Most of you have brilliant common sense, empathy and sympathy and a sweetness all your own that exists nowhere else in Nature. I adore you all, and you all have my greatest respect and my protection wherever I am. I cannot condone the mistreatment of any lady and will do whatever I can to stop it. Of course the same goes for children and animals and anything defenseless. I just cannot bear useless cruelty and all such treatment is just that. No man has the right to mistreat a woman or child and any man that can hit a woman has serious mental/emotional problems and needs clinical help. That is not a man, nor an animal, but just a beast! So, I stand with you, but please give the same respect to all the men who deserve it too. There are still some very good ones of us out here, who would do whatever was necessary to protect a woman and a child.