I'm not sure I agree on this ... or rather, I think you've pegged it correctly, but to me, that's part of the problem. I'd much rather live in a world where the members of both genders who enjoyed peacocking it up could indulge to their hearts content, and the rest of us could occasionally take a day off, without one gender shoring up the entire ridiculous system ... but I realize that there's less than a snowball's chance of this happening within my lifetime.

Sigh.