Pillow Talk

I had a conversation last night with a friend about men and women, and how we've lost a sense of how to interact with one another. Well, that's not how it started, but that's what we eventually got to. The changing dynamic of who's responsible for what as far as how the world works has led to some confusion in both men and women. It's been put this way: men have forgotten to be men... that didn't lead to a discussion of what it is to be a man, since that conversation would've taken far more time than I was willing to devote to talking. The point is that all the big talk of equality and rights and double standards and oppression, etc, has left the average person adrift when it comes to talking to the opposite sex. Can the internet be used to get men and women to communicate again? Are the little things we say in comments on pages and in chat rooms the first steps to making it safe to say, "hi, you seem intelligent and attractive, let's discuss the upcoming presidential election further?" Or is the point of all of this technology to help us into the World Wide Bed?