You asked if I’m “MACHO” enough to post my comments here…and you took the liberty to do so anyway while I was en route to work. That’s fine.

As for the “world we live in…” Yes, it’s a horrible world but there is goodness in it… And certainly the world is not according to either your or my perspective alone; there are legitimate and opposing viewpoints, and they must be heard…

While my heart goes out to senseless death, where’s the world’s outcry when innocent lives are massacred daily in Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere?

Does it make any difference whether that life is a young man or a young woman, child of a poor peasant or upper class student?

You must take criticism squarely in the face Paulo, and not have a knee-jerk defensive reaction. You don’t like the clerics, but as an independent observer I would like to hear their side as well…

Your work idolizes women and paints a distorted image, and this creates an imbalance and alienates the masculine energy. You would do well to empower both sides deservingly and justly, and not simply pander to a ready and formulaic consumer niche.