I get a kick hearing feminists getting indignant and venting about how men control society, and using the current pinnacle of the very technology that men have spent millenia perfecting in order to do so. That's funny. But not as funny as the usually inevitable and self-congratulatory reasoning that blames men as having therefore been behind a conspiracy to prevent women from being at the forefront of creating the modern mechanical world - a world which they would no sooner flee than they would give up an opportunity for chatting with their girlfriends while either obsessing about or eating unnecessary amounts of carbohydrates. 

Read Camille Paglia. It's so much easier to appreciate a woman's point of view or contribution to the world when she's proven to not be an ingrate about the overwhelming contribution of men to the same Western civilization that, basically, only hippie chicks ever have the courage or breadth of mind to live outside of. Understand that, and therein you'll find the balance. Not to mention a sense of respect for something called "nature". Or we could continue an eternity of blaming what women think they lack for on something male...