- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 3 July 2001 02.44 BST
The reality, however, is very different. The millennium man by and large lives a life of misery, and he is hiding it less well. Calls to my consulting room have grown five-fold in the past few years.
It's truly wonderful what women have achieved. I see the benefits that it continues to bring to my sisters and daughters. But it seems like a week doesn't go by without another statistic on the poor state of men's health - mental, physical and emotional.
Men are are the ones suffering inequalities. Is it not time for a truly joined-up national push to offer the help and support that men so obviously need?
Richard O'Neill
Therapist/counsellor
Manchester
• So Thelma and Louise "fled their humdrum lives and hit the road on a crime spree" did they? (The great escape, G2 page 9).
Maybe you saw a different film from the one I remember - in which Thelma and Louise fled lives as victims of sexist prejudice but unfortunately shot a would-be rapist who assaulted them and, realising that they had no hope of either justice or equality in this world, committed suicide by driving their car off a cliff.
Sometimes I know how they felt.
Celia Brayfield
London
