Letters to the Editor
dick dworkin
Published Letters: 683 Editor's Choice: 3
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of course they are less willing to speak their minds because speaking your mind can offend someone
[Read the article: Are women less willing to speak their minds?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]everyone wants to be loved by everyone (they don't want to reciprocate necessarily) but men if they want to be loved by women have to prove themselves by doing and saying things to demonstrate their superior quality over other men and one of the things they have to do is stand out and be right, and be able to prove it and make it stick, in addition to being good looking, successfully, sensitive, etc, etc. Women have no need to do any of this except when they want to so it makes sense that they would be more restrained. Of course we are talking about inclinations and behavior which are to a significant degree innate biological adaptions to biological necessity, not something which is entirely a product of individual learning.
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ANY social interaction in which a man AND a good looking woman are participants CANNOT possibly fail to intoduce such a huge bias
[Read the article: Are women less willing to speak their minds?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]as to render the results almost totally meaningless when generalized to a situation where this is not the case.
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men are as worried about sounding stupid as women if not more so, the point is that they have NO CHOICE but to TRY
[Read the article: Are women less willing to speak their minds?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and put themselves out if they ever want to have sex.
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well, everyone tries to INFLUENCE what other people think, it is a little weird though to express
[Read the article: Who put this feminism in my porno?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]by implication an expectation that you can directly FORCE someone to think the way you want them to.
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the only thing unique about it is the fact that it relates to a specific historical event and that because of that the women were the subject of revenge
[Read the article: Israel's Nazi-porn problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]other than that femdom porn is universal except where it is actively suppressed because of the fact that for biologically obvious reasons sperm is less valuable than eggs and therefore men have to pay, in some form, for sex.
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About a third of Americans, i.e. 100 million, are obese. Being overweight and obese lowers quality of life for decades, causing joint problems, denying fun activities, lowering energy levels, worsening mood, etc.
[Read the article: Tattooed and proudly flabby on the catwalk]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They totally fuck the people around them too because they can stay disabled but not die for decades; and least smokers usually have the decency to die of their habit fairly soon after they become unable to function and take care of themselves.
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it may be stupid to claim we have ACHIEVED a gynocracy but a look at the comments in response to the "feminist porn" post should make it obvious that the ASPIRATION to a totalitarian gynocracy
[Read the article: Quote of the day: It's a gynocracy!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is no right wing fantasy.
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however there is ZERO rational reason to believe that Hillary Clinton
[Read the article: Quote of the day: It's a gynocracy!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]shares those aspirations.
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disability caused by obesity is a public health and economic disaster on a par in it's destructive effects with smoking, drinking or drug use and
[Read the article: Tattooed and proudly flabby on the catwalk]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]it's as worthy of comment as smoking, drinking and drunk driving, or drug use and is is MUCH MUCH more widespread. If you had ever had to deal with individuals disabled or limited by obesity as I have, (an experience which MANY MANY MORE people are going to have in the future than have had it so far given current trends) you would know why it gets talked about a lot.
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nobody in Auschwitz was fat even though they came in with a great variety of different metabolisms
[Read the article: Tattooed and proudly flabby on the catwalk]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]ANYONE CAN LOSE WEIGHT AND CAN STAY A HEALTHY WEIGHT THEY JUST CAN'T EAT AS MUCH CRAP AS ALL THEIR FRIENDS. You're opinions Laurel are compelling evidence though that the problem will never be solved until some form of medical intervention that directly targets the DESIRE to overeat is developed. One thing that would probably make any FAT SLOB willing to go on a diet would be if they had to deal with all of the consequences of another fat slobs failure to do so, unfortunately they are too fucked up to be able to handle the job so a thin person has to do it.
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A woman today can make her way without any input from a man. The same is not true for men, not by a long shot.
[Read the article: Quote of the day: It's a gynocracy!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Men could do the same if they cared as little about sex as a lot of women do. There really is no reasonable way to "compensate" men for the fact that they are more interested in women than women are in them.
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the ones who were kept alive for a while on the diets that were fed to the workers were all thin
[Read the article: Tattooed and proudly flabby on the catwalk]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is what I was referring to. But since you bring it up this is an issue with cremation now, if you are too fat when you die your relatives will be unable to have you cremated because of the grease problem.
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any men who can get out of other men what they can get out of women are gay or bi already, count on it
[Read the article: Quote of the day: It's a gynocracy!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and they have no reason to complain. It's the men who LIKE women who do. I also doubt whether most men are really as happy as you seem to think they are. What possible point could there be in discussing these issues with women who know who you are, there is no benefit and a huge cost. Since nothing can be done and nothing is going to be done I wonder why you aren't just willing to be satisfied with the situation.
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I've never heard a fat man say "I am doing everything possible to lose weight and I can't" but women say this all the time.
[Read the article: Tattooed and proudly flabby on the catwalk]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Besides this women seem much better able to live a long time with disabling obesity than men do. It seems they have evolved a mechanism which keeps their hearts strong even when they don't exercise. This is no doubt a result of the fact that there is a huge benefit from energy conservation, fat storage, and therefore from inactivity during pregnancy and nursing.
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It depends on your definition of man hating: The belief that women are right about everything that men and women generally have different views on (porn, prostitution, "objectification")
[Read the article: Quote of the day: It's a gynocracy!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]etc, because men and women are "really" the same (or men are innately inferior although this isn't ususally said openly) so the differences in viewpoint must have a malevolent motive or in any case are objectively wrong/inferior and that therefore men should be forced to conform to womens preferred ways of thinking and acting is a very reasonable definition of man hating and is a very widespread view.
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apparently I can
[Read the article: Can you hide slutty eyes?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]even when I am trying REALLY HARD not to.
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actually it can be if enough means of objectively evaluating what was done
[Read the article: Can you hide slutty eyes?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is available.
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maybe the theories, which are really not theories in the sense that the word is used in science but are just opinons, of a small group
[Read the article: Quote of the day: It's a gynocracy!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]of academics being presented as what the civil rights movement is all about at least partially explains why the right wing has done as well as they have.
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they try and make the women seem as real as they can given the limitations of the talent and budgets
[Read the article: Who put this feminism in my porno?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and frankly the men are obviously having to work WAY to hard to get off lots of the time. The point is though that its a lot easier to enjoy sex vicariously if the people who are actually doing it at least give some appearance of enjoying it.
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what kind of proof of female pleasure could they get?
[Read the article: Who put this feminism in my porno?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that COULDN'T easily be faked? If something that concrete existed it would probably be required of the women too. There's a lot of liquid, ostensiably female, in porn now, but it's kind of hard to tell what is really going on there, which is kinda the point. I've always wondered what would happen if REAL actors and acresses did REAL porn. Would THEY be convincing.
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you are right pansk, I did assume you were a woman, I'll take your word that you are a man
[Read the article: Quote of the day: It's a gynocracy!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]although your refusal to understand that genuine sexual attraction AND GENUINE LIKING AND LOVING CAN COEXIST with REAL problems with other people sounds suspiciously feminine (either that or you have been indoctrinated VERY thoroughly and COMPLETELY successfully). I do have one question though: if all men are as totally and happily submissive to women as you describe yourself and all the men you know, why are so many women finding so much to complain about?