Here it is: Women can have sex with just about any man anytime they desire.

So, acting like your penis is precious, esoteric, made of gold, and sprinkled with diamonds and mini-M & M's is just silly. If you met me and I wanted to have sex with you, I would. *

* But I wouldn't. You're obsessed with fighting with women. I don't sleep with drama kings. And bragging is a huge turn-off.

you'll clog this thread. Relax. Learn to love the little words. They're your friends.

But one can never say that "Feminists say...." as if there is ever agreement amongst feminist, women, or any wedge of humanity.

Man, oh, man, some of you men are sure agitated about feminists. Take some soma, dudes.

Yeah, it amazes me that youngsters want to sleep with me, but it's so. Men aren't fussy. And women aren't fussy after a few drinks, thus the ubiquitous Ladies' Night.

But back to the article. Fewer men might mean less procreation and that's a good thing. There are too many of us. So, viva la XX or whatever else lessens our numbers, short of war and disease, what are the old stand-bys.

you remind me of Bill Donahue, who's a professional and perpetual INSULTED for the Catholic Church, aka the do-expect-the-inquisition-guys. *

* Always nice to apply a Python reference.

...and sometimes I think you're damaged goods (and I have consequent compassion for you), but I NEVER think you're representative of all men, as you misextrapolate and misgeneralize from what I say or other women say and apply it to all women.

To the comic shop!

But, alas, LydiaS, Brightstar and his ilk will likely say, "How typical of women. They want us to revert to children and to read comics! But I won't have it. Now I'm off to wax and polish my penis and sacrifice a goat to it."

I struggle to agree with the cyber-feminists. Likewise, I struggle to agree with black people who assert that racism is the key ill and especially white guys who want us to believe that their lot is the least.

Here's my primary problem with a woman asserting that patriarchy is the problem: under the banner of caring-about-all-women-everywhere, all I can hear is, "But what about me? What about my suffering? It's the central, primary, biggest and bestest suffering!" Likewise with black bloggers who focus on racism.

I think, "So, under the pretenses of caring about your brothers and sisters, you really want us to care about you, you, you."

People suffer all over the world and have been suffering for eons and will suffer as long as we manage to not eradicate ourselves. To lessen suffering, we have to shuck our exoskeletons of inveterate suffering and be gooey and squishy and open and see that others are suffering.

Guys like Brightstar want us to believe that men are good and women are bad. If you don't believe it, read his many absolute statements in this thread. His exoskeleton is 5 feet thick. He's bunkered in his absolute generalities. I doubt that he can shuck that exoskeleton and likewise, I doubt that some cyber-feminists can, but whereas Brightstar and some cyber-feminists make a lot of noise, they're not promoted to positions of power. All that exoskeleton makes them too rigid.

she'd arrive for work her first day with a chainsaw in one hand, a flamethrower in the other, and a bag of wood-boring beetles. And the neocons would smile.

War is peace.

Defeat is victory.

Spying is freedom.

Imperialism is liberation.

And the oil will last forever!

That nasty boy who did/does the "Girls Gone Wild" videos said that women only have that certain corporeal je ne sais quoi between the ages of 18 and 25. Okay, he didn't say it quite that way, but Jenny McCarthy of MTV once said something similar. And whether one's skin starts to sag at 25 or 55, it happens and one better have a Plan B. Accomplishment is ageless, as are certain professions. Who cares if a doctor has wrinkles? Or a musician (Not a writhing pop tart like Ms. Brit, but a musician.)? Or a writer? Or a teacher? All the time youngsters spend garnering attention for taut tits is time lost to developing an ageless, timeless skill.

Likewise, the guy who asserts, "But I like HAWT chicks." is also wasting his time. Soon, he'll be of an age where "HAWT chicks" will think of him as a geezer. Rather than staring at "HAWT chicks," he should develop those skills that are forever alluring.

Your post is what's rotten about the Internet. Your post is a swarm of ad homs. At least in formal debate, as soon as someone goes ad hom, that person is declared the loser under the correct assumption that an ad hommer has no position. Or when one writes for a magazine, no letter as ad hommy as yours would EVER be published.

So, should Salon hire you, since you cast yourself as a superior journalist? And then would you do? Would you do more of what you already do? Would you attack your readers?

At least the "Googles" gave me the giggles.

a little known historical FACT is that Jesus was driven about (by Paul, I believe) in a glassy JesusMoblie, which was the forerunner of the PopeMobile.

But to tumble back in seriousness, one can't support the troops any better than by bicycling. The less oil we consume, the less the troops need to drive atop that oily sand and over those IEDs.

And I've also experienced the scary, brittle thinsters and the frumpy ones. More and more, I dedicate myself to being impressed by achievement, rather than beauty. And more and more, I focus on achievement, rather than frittering my remaining minutes on the draining, endless dramas that one incurs when one turns to a pretty face.