Let me be totally politically incorrect, and make a world based on the vaporings of the farther reaches of chick-lit.
Let's see how accurate I am in skewering this, and see if I can come up with a fun world.
First, men and women are not equal. Men are oppressive frequently, and patronizing (almost always), but a typical woman, if balanced in skill and sense against typical men would be worth about three men. Women are vastly superior, if underappreciated.
Also, Men are on Average cuter than in the Prime Time Line. A normal male is 1@8 in Animal Magnetism and Charisma. Some men, who are relatively average, may have a higher AnMag and a lower Charisma or vice versa. Usually a lower Charisma but a higher AnMag is a sign of a partially uncontrolled Beast Nature.
Men, being lower life forms, still partake of the Animals, and thus some of them, the cruder, rougher sorts, have a not fully integrated Beast Nature. This comes out when they are made angry or lustful if they fail a Simple Willpower Check. The more stressful the situation, the worse the sit-mod is.
When the Beast Nature roars, the Man shifts upward five points in Animal Magnetism, and gains the ability...Mentally Dominate One Female. Men are not aware they have this power.
This explains why the common phrase 'you're so cute when you're angry' is heard throughout the land every day, and why great numbers of virtuous females surrender to teh depraved urges of Men at the office.
The typical Man is 1@3 in Intelligence, and Intuition (although Doctors and Detectives have 1@7), and 2@1 in Strength.
The typical Female is 1@8 in Intelligence and 2@1 in Intuition, but 1@3 in Willpower. She also has at a minimum two major traumas of a psychic nature, one stalking loser, and fifty pairs of shoes. Females who don't have this by the tenth grade are sent to special schools where traumas are arranged for them.
Another category of Man is Loserman. He is just like Average Man except he has 1@5 charisma. It is possible that a visitng verser might be mistaken for one of these, and denied seating at the all prevalent sidewalk cafe's.
The last category of Man is Evil Genius. This Man has 2@7 Intelligence and Intuition. This has led him to 1)Realize the innate inferiority of Maledom and strike out vengefully. OR 2)Create a richly detailed fantasy dream life of the wondrous life he and a certain Average Female could have together if only all the Average Female's friends and relatives died in horrible, bloody accidents.
About one in thirty men are Evil Geniuses. It is lucky that they are so abrasive to each other or they could Take Over the World, but a typical EG hates the very presence of another EG and will seek to escape at the first opportunity, possibly leaping his Arabian jumper over the table with the darling little sandwhiches to gallop away into the sunset with a desperate smirk.
In order to be calm and rational, it requires a Simple Willpower check for the first ten minutes. After that, the sit-mod gets more difficult for the next ten minutes, and at the hour mark, it shifts to a Difficult Willpower check. This effects everyone, even versers. However, Men, being emotionally stunted have a +20 bonus to being calm.
Also, this world is a Bottom of the Funnel Verse. That is, anyone in another verse nearby, who gets even partially detached from their reality is likely to be sucked into the WoH. Thus Vampires, Highlander Scots with really huge swords and massive pectoral muscles, and pirates drop in and stay. This Funnel only effects men who are good looking. Versers tend to arrive by a different passage so this does not effect them.
Men, being cute but dumb, and frequently well-meaning, have a hard time grasping the scope of evil of the Evil Geniuses among them. They therefore insist on things like Rule of Law and Probation when the proper punishment is Death by the Iron Maiden. This s not helped by the fact that women gave men the vote in 1920 (aka, they pretended they would consider Men's point of view when they made decisions) and the wretches have taken a joke literally and ran with it. It does not help that there are two good looking guys for every female, and thus females are totally outvoted even though a Man, being almost totally driven by his desires can be manipulated into voting the right way (but that's so tiresome to do your civic duty every couple years and make sure the President remains female.)
And there you are, welcome to Chick-lit.
