if a "wall" could guarantee no violence the palestinians would have their own state tomorrow, well maybe the day after. US support for Israel would NOT continue if REAL PEACE were openly rejected by Israel. It is true that the Israeli right has played lots of games over the years to prevent just this outcome, but the arabs probably could have managed it without their help.

I don't know if this is true, I kind of doubt it. I think the real situation is probably a man is more likely than a woman to be sleeping with someone he doesn't love or with whom he doesn't feel the potential of something long term. If it is true therefore that men are more ambivalent about the relationships they are in, on average, than women I suppose I can see how the situation is more delicate for the man but on the other hand I think the women loving him could help. If you are 50/50 on whether to stay or go it seems to men that her loving you and saying so could help as much as hurt, and if that, at a minimum isn't the case was there really any potential anyway?

because they knew the US would not and could not support them if they did.

Now that women don't need mens' money of course this will tend to be true. When relationships are based on chemistry alone men will tend to be more attached because they are hornier and less picky and less easily put off.

always holds up.

I mean

Israelis actually have some collective accountability for their actions, so American discussions often tend to be especially stupid on both sides, so it's a nice surprise when this isn't the case.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but the FACT IS that if women were NOT ambivalent abortion would be totally and uncontroversially legal everywhere where women can vote and the illegitimacy rate would be zero.

is any more likely to damage your long term prospects with them, than NOT telling them you love them when you do.

do you really think it is in the interest of the Israeli govt. or army to kill civilians?

I think you are sadly deluded. At one time I thought that the end of the Soviet Empire and especially the containment of Saddam after Gulf War 1 would convince a critical mass of palestinians that peace was their only option. Unfortunately thanks to Iran, the settlers, fundamentalist Christians, and others this hasn't happened. I think a majority want it, the problem is a minority can keep a fight going.

and they can't. That said, it is true that not everything breaks down purely along gender lines.

there are some other things you can say that will convince men you are serious such as "Nobody has ever gotten me off like you do" or "I didn't know it was possible to get this wet" this will definitely make it clear that you are serious.

by the way how is it that people decided which instincts are evil and which are not, for instance, caring about attractiveness is shallow, but caring about food is not. Why not moderation in all? The fact is that what we are usually really talking about are the differences between men and women. BTW acceptance in the form of: "I accept the fact that you are shallow and stupid and I am not" maybe shouldn't be considered the final word on the subject.

No, she just has problems getting and staying with the men she wants (maybe there are other issues too how would I know) and isn't handling it particularly well. Lots of men do the equivalent.

otherwise men who can will look for someone who is. I think monogamy (maybe)can work but it's going to take a willingness to deal with reality on all sides to make it work.

If women responded to naked men the same way that men respond to naked women then naked men WOULD be everywhere. Like they are in gay culture/society/whatever you want to call it. I'm always amazed when people don't know this, it feels like a broken record pointing it out, but what can I do when the need to have it explained yet again is so painfully apparent.

No, it is because it is not appealing to straight women. Yes naked men can SOMETIMES and in SOME CIRCUMSTANCES be appealing to straight women but advertisers have the same problem straight men have: women are picky. When selling to men advertisers can just throw hot and/or naked women (or men if they are advertising to gay men) around any which way and know that it will work.

If they liked the thought of it I guess they wouldn't be hetero would they? The only problem most straight men have with gay men is that gay men don't have to work for sex and, ironically, women seem to like them better. I don't know where you live or what media you watch but there sure is a lot of blatant and open gayness on display for something that people allegedly find so evil and threatening. Or perhaps you are referring to the universal straight male aversion to women getting it on with each other?

but women make up half the population and make way more than half of the purchasing decisions so if they had any serious interest you should see MORE naked men than naked women in advertising, which brings up the other issue that what naked men there ARE in advertising are as likely if not more likely to be targeting gay men as straight women even though there are 10 times as many straight women as gay men. More proof of womens' relative lack of interest.