although it MIGHT become less visible, not because most men won't still appear to be losers but it just won't matter to anyone whether they are not so nobody will bother to discuss it.

It IS the de facto standard where people WANT the votes counted. Look where touch screens are used. Mostly in places where Republicans are in charge.

Very little chance of that, I'm afraid.

which is just fine with some people. But lets be clear on what the real issue is.

read the NYT article about her and it will go away.

this should lay to rest forever the idea that men are as picky as women.

represents everything the christianists are fighting against.

CORRECTION "We" don't notice the MALE workers who do these things, the female workers can't stop complaining about how much they get noticed.

who isn't universally regarded as repulsive?

she really is.

You do understand that your point of view, while common among women, is as much the result of your specific hormonal make up and age as a teenaged boys desperation to get laid. One no more constitutes universal truth and wisdom than the other, except by accident.

No one will contact you unless they are already interested and this will take the pressure off because you will know they are attracted to you or they wouldn't have contacted you. BTW, men, even decent looking ones, typically get rejected by most women in most situations so if the guy in your class made ANY effort to talk to you, after you didn't really respond, he WAS attracted to you.

this literally cannot be true: if any significant number of guys are all over you EVER then you are attractive to some decent looking guys too. You can be CERTAIN that there is a mutual attraction by the method I described above, and if there IS a mutual attraction your social awkwardness will not be a problem. In fact if you really CAN'T think of anything else to say you could talk openly about your problem and it STILL wouldn't likely kill off a real attraction.

otherwise, well. Actually I have to admit though after taking care of a fat invalid I have a similar attitude towards food related instincts as you do towards sexual ones. I have to be honest though, I haven't had much luck making them disappear.

It absolutely IS social anxiety and it is EXTREMELY widespread, in fact I think most people have this problem, I know most men do.

"I am incapacitated to the point of drooling idiocy by a combination of my shyness and your hotness but I would like to spend time with you/fuck you anyway and let's see where it goes" and the guy will say "sure". A shy straight man simply does not have this option. Period. You all know it is true no matter how much you feel the need to lie for political reasons.

ONLY IF THEY ARE FEMALE. Most women simply cannot get it up for a socially/intellectually "incompetent" man even if he is good looking.

but if stating "the truth" settled everything life would be a lot simpler than it is.

I suppose that is progress of sort.

those who in the 50s and 60 initiated the process of dismantling American apartheid and those who insisted that freedom of religion meant that the religious did not have the right to use the govt. to enforce their religions sexual opinions.

since she would have been motivating the right wing base for him and McCain wouldn't have been tempted by the (alleged)PUMA phenomenon to placate the RW base with Palin.

from theocracy enforced by violence, to slavery, to the establishment and maintenance of american apartheid after the civil war, to the Bush plot to overthrow the govt. after the New Deal for which the perpetrators were never punished or held accountable, to the obviously completely illegal impeachment of Clinton, to the obviously stolen election in 2000 and installation of Bush and the stolen election in 2004 the right wing believes that tradition and history is on their side.

they will never change. There has always been a crowd like this and there always will be. Now it is the gay/abortionist (and black) menace, 50 years ago it was the commie (and black) menace, before that it was the Catholic (and black) menace. The only thing that varies is whether they are in control and able to impede progress or whether the sane parts of the society are exerting influence.

What makes you think that any are?

in almost any group there is some diversity and some people can be reached. In fact I think the argument that the Dems lack of ability to deliver anything dramatic has contributed to right wing strength has a lot of validity. Giving up on half the population because you think it is hopeless is a huge gift to the right. I'm not saying don't be realistic about what you are dealing with, but something has to be at least tried. I think Obama will try, and with big Dem majorities may succeed, in doing something that matters.

it WOULD be unthinkable for him to be elected. Thank God Obama, if not all of his supporters, is emotionally stable.

Try to play along and not commit myself to anything. I suspect she had her doubts about who she was talking to but she didn't feel sure enough about what WAS going on to want to challenge anyone. I guess that fact could be taken to mean something in itself, but I'm not sure how much.

don't know if this hurts or helps her politically overall. Actually though if she wants a political future outside of a narrow circle she is going to have to address in a meaningful way the question of her membership in a wacko cult (even more wacko than generic fundamentalism).