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Wednesday, March 5, 2008 02:24 PM

ya think there might be other requests? really ya thinK? No

this could never happen! never! not when half the female population believes in sexual segregation for religious reasons and most of the other half wants it to protect themselves against the predatory male gaze, objectification, whatever. When they get together, as they obviously are, men, at least the straight ones, are fucked(not).

Wednesday, March 5, 2008 05:52 PM

the kosher facilities cost way more than feeding the same number of people using the already existing facilities would

so money that would be available for other things is used thereby depriving someone of whatever that money would have otherwise been spent on.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008 05:56 PM

cost way more to operate that is

regardless of who paid for the original construction

Wednesday, March 5, 2008 06:28 PM

fossil fuel use isn't all going to cease immediately and if the sequestered CO2 gradually leaks out into the ocean

many thousands of years after we have ceased using fossil fuels that situation will be a very big improvement over putting it into the air now. So the quicker that effective sequestration can be widely used to deal with whatever fossil fuel use is inevitable, the better.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008 09:32 PM

it's also very very politically stupid to give the jewish nuts and much more significantly the CHRISTIAN nuts special treatment

and deny equivalent special treatment to the muslim nuts

Thursday, March 6, 2008 11:27 AM

that fact that polticians do it doesn't mean that it isn't incredibly stupid

but no one can take a principled stand against theocracy and be taken seriously, whether we are talking about the theocratic aspirations of traditionally powerful groups in the US or the theocratic aspirations of "third world victims of western imperialism". To be SELECTIVELY for OR SELECTIVELY against any theocracy actively acts to strengthen the hands of ALL aspiriing theocrats and undermines the effort to make it clear that ALL RELIGIOUS GOVERNMENT IS BY DEFINITION AND IN FACT INHERENTLY TYRANNICAL because you are using the police power of the state to force people to follow a particular religion of pay a penalty in some form for not doing so. EVERYONE has a fundamental right to their religious opinions or "non opinions" without interference in any form by any social entity empowered to compel.

Thursday, March 6, 2008 11:46 AM

why is liking tits inherently stupid

nobody is going to call you stupid for liking dick, unless it belongs to the wrong person.

Thursday, March 6, 2008 02:25 PM

the reason women react so strongly to this is because most women DO think men are stupid for not being like women

and they know that men know that they think that. Hence all the defensive hyperventilating.

Thursday, March 6, 2008 03:45 PM

notice how all the women who protest that they DO like men demonstrate their liking

by pointing out the fact that all the men THEY know DO share all or most of the same interests and approaches as women. Really, do you see how obvious you are? Actually you probably do and know that it doesn't matter because the issue is not the quality of the idea but whether or not there is enough power behind it to bludgeon everyone into accepting it even, maybe in fact especially, when it is obviously stupid. Clearly the idea that "men are ok, WHEN they are like women in every way that matters" is one of those obviously stupid but obviously powerful ideas.

Thursday, March 6, 2008 04:46 PM

so we are agreed then, men ARE permitted to differer from women in how they entertain themselves

just not in any other area. I guess we have to be grateful for the little things.

Thursday, March 6, 2008 05:46 PM

so the question remains open do women really need men for anything

or do they just have to fake it. You raise a good question though, why should they want to. Men don't need women for anything other than sex and relationships, women don't actually DO anything for men, they are a huge cost in fact. Men don't care though. Women are worth it. No one can honestly claim that it is clear that the overwhelming majority of women feel the same about men.

Thursday, March 6, 2008 06:26 PM

this accurately describes the situation acw provided the term "do anything" is properly defined:

"do EVERYTHING she wants EXACTLY when she wants EXACTLY the way she wants and don't EVER complain or even think of questioning anything". Now that women have their own money and either don't care about sex and/or can get it anywhere (and child support orders are enforced) they can get away with it.

Thursday, March 6, 2008 06:48 PM

with continued absurdity like this is it any wonder boys don't go to college

who says everyone wants boys to go to college? If only women are educated then women will be running everything.

Thursday, March 6, 2008 09:12 PM

somehow men threatening to withhold sex from women doesn't strike me as a promising

strategy.

Thursday, March 6, 2008 09:19 PM

ethics? ethics? as defined by who? Gloria Stinem(sic, whatever)

and my cousing Andrea?

Friday, March 7, 2008 10:52 AM

there is no way to guarantee that the vapor lock will ALWAYS break

depending on the nature of the container it can be difficult or impossible to do so with vibration alone.

Friday, March 7, 2008 12:10 PM

.....also, has anyone ever suggested that men and women are profoundly different creatures

This is another truth that women have a VERY hard time with: men and women are different in ways that have SIGNIFICANT effects on how things go and how people relate AND AT THE SAME TIME IT IS TRUE that men are NOT inferior. It is almost impossible for most women, when they and all their female friends feel that something important is a certain way, to accept that a point of view that differs from theirs can be as legitimate as their own. There's also not much incentive for honesty because honesty will reveal that there is no solution; you are stuck between forcing someone to do things your way or not getting your own way. This is a choice that people often PREFER to be unconscious of.

Sunday, March 9, 2008 01:07 PM

if you don't like/aren't interested in slutty women why do you care what they do?

it makes no sense.

Sunday, March 9, 2008 01:53 PM

they're getting of on fantasizing about it anyway

actually they probably AREN'T getting off or they wouldn't be so irritable.

Monday, March 10, 2008 12:17 PM

Parity is the real sexiness.

Yes, it is, the problem is the female definition of parity: "everything/everyone is exactly the way the woman wants it to be", after all she is right about everything so the only possible basis for a man to object to everything being her way is sexism.

Monday, March 10, 2008 12:27 PM

And just to be clear, anorexia is the most deadly form of psychopathology

For every anorexic there are millions of unhealthy fat pigs who are burden to themselves and everyone else because they can't accept the fact that they shouldn't be able to eat anything/everything they want or at least enough not to feel deprived.

Monday, March 10, 2008 01:50 PM

Don't fool yourself, masturbation is never a substitue for the real thing.....for an opposing viewpoint....

When I start hearing about ordinary men complaining that everywhere they go women are hitting on them and pestering them for sex then I will start taking the idea that men are unwilling to have sex with women seriously.

Monday, March 10, 2008 01:58 PM

It has nothing to do with subservience or reversal of gender roles. Bullshit.

It has EVERYTHING to do with gender as the following situation makes clear: If a man and woman both work equal amounts and the MAN is the one who is picky about the house being clean and orderly and the WOMAN doesn't care if it is a mess the WOMAN in a situation like this has NO PROBLEM saying to the man "if it matters to you you deal with it". Why is it different when the genders are reversed?

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