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10-2-06: Well Ollie, we seem to have made a decision – publish and be damned!

Why do I call you Ollie? Well, I reckon that the future generations of readers who will regard us with awe as icons of social change will need names so that they can identify with us more easily. They will detect differences in our style and need to have names for us. And the “ladies” will need something to write on the placards around the dummies' necks as they throw them on the bonfires! So I thought Stan & Ollie – but in these days of so-called equality, your opinion will count of course. It could just as well be Butch & Sundance. Or Derek & Clive. Your call…

And the name? Well, I tried to think of something other than “misogynist”; even went to an Internet Thesaurus, and found no synonyms. It lists misogynist and other words as synonyms of something or other – and one of the other synonyms was Stag as in bachelor etc. So I just picked that for our first attempt, but again your opinion is valued. Misogynist meaning “woman hater” is so extreme and doesn't describe our position at all. Haters of women's behaviour maybe, but not women haters eh? The only other alternative I have bumped onto is “gynophobe”, which I don't rate. The “phobe” suffix indicates irrational fear, and a fear of women is certainly not irrational! So we're up there in cyberspace on the Interweb thingy with a dummy name to start with, and we can get a domain name once we have finished squabbling…

There's no way we are designing this as a blog. No way are we having a bunch of crazed feminists clogging up our site with their opinions. That would be too much like home! But I think we should offer a web-based email address so that fans can write to us. That way our admirers have a way to express their love and admiration, and the girls have a way to… oh who gives a toss what the girls want to express? Most of them will have to find a bloke to turn on their PC and log on anyway.

So just reply by adding your comments at the top of this and the dialogue-to-change-the-world will commence! Oh, sorry. I don't need to explain how it works, do I, coz you're a bloke…

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