And the Hi, I'm Bill Crystal. Welcome to Conversations. I'm very pleased to be joined today by my

colleague and friend Christine Rosen, manager editor of the Weekly Standard,

regular columnist for Commentary magazine,

author of many interesting articles on many topics,

technology, other political and social topics, cultural topics, but especially I think recently, men and women.

That's a small topic.

So you're going to tell us here in an hour, hour and a, what to think about men and women.

We're talking in October just after the Kavanaugh confirmation,

but maybe we can avoid that contentious topic.

We don't have to avoid it, but we can refer to us we wish but let's step back more broadly

what is going on with men I mean it just seems I don't know very chaotic and

everyone is aggrieved, everyone's unhappy.

Should we be unhappy with the current situation?

Is it actually okay?

What's the situation of the,

in the eternal war, conflict, or relations

between the sexes? It's a deeply confusing time, I think, for everyone.

And I promise not to talk too much about the Kavanaugh here.

No, no, it's fine.

But they did throw into high relief. A lot of what we don't understand and by that I mean

men and women don't really know how to behave with each other one person sees as an aggressive potential assault.

That's two very different interpretations of the same event.

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