'I'm really very pessimistic these days, ' he says.

This may imply world-weariness or a no-bullshit attitude.

But I also confess to being misanthropic -- I don't much like most people.

"In the blink of an eye, the gloom and doom and pessimism has dissipated, " Lieberman said.

Now we' re the world-weary ones, with little energy to try to reform relations between the sexes: Is there any point, really, in trying to fix men?