I'm glad someone said it..

[honeymonster]

According to Gray's metaphor, "Martians (i.e., men) discovered the Venusians (i.e., women)" and, after falling in love, "quickly invented" space travel." (9-enhancements mine.) Women (excuse me, Venusians), on the other hand, happily received the arrival of the Martians for "they had intuitively known that this day would come." (9) The basis of this shallow metaphor is the belief that men are actively pursuing what they want by controlling their environments and relationships, while women sit passively waiting to be rescued by the proverbial knight in shining armor who, because of his intelligence and wisdom, will make their lives content and worry-free (and, I suppose, validate them).

Here lies Gray's central thesis: men fulfill active roles and are seen as ambitious and powerful. Women, however, satisfy passive roles and, although the author may grudgingly admit that women are cognizant human beings, they must necessarily take a back seat to the dominant male in their lives in order to routinely accommodate his wants and desires. I ask you, is this the study of mountain gorillas or serious scholarship (in itself a questionable claim) regarding the relationships among rational beings?

--The Rebuttal From Uranus