Why do they hate us?

So...Agnes and Barbara...That's my question to you both:  Why do they hate us?

That was the the title of an article by Mona Eltahawy (http://www.foreignpolicy.com) and, of course, the "they" refers to men.

Her article focussed on women in Egypt and it quoted from the Egyptian writer Alifa Rifaat: "We have no freedoms because they hate us."

What a thing to have to write "Yes: They hate us. It must be said."

And it must be hate. It can't be love that demands a woman cover herself with a heavy blue burka.  It can't be respect that prohibits a woman from driving. It can't be admiration that denies a woman the right to make her own health decisions.

So why?  Is it because we have vaginas and they don't. Although I'm not sure why they would want one. Or maybe because we can give birth and they can't. Frankly I don't remember that as being much fun.

I suspect it has something to do with power.  Doesn't everything?

What do you all think?