the "alphas" always get the girls, period (even though what it takes to be an alpha can vary, somewhat), and since it is obvious that EVERYONE can't be president all men learn early that there isn't much that can be done. For women on the other hand it is ALL about other women: ANY WOMAN IN THE WORLD, no matter how objectively pretty or ugly or anything else good or bad can potentially be the hot babe that every guy is after or the ugly dog that no one will pay any attention to. It depends ENTIRELY on what OTHER women around her are like. So of course women are in some senses more competitive.

I think we agree on the facts, just not on the labeling. I think the things you are talking about ARE sexual competition, but you are right men do NOT compare themselves to each other in the way women do (or not with the same emotions when they do it anyway), for the reason I described in my prior post.

how could a party made of of people THAT STUPID EVER have gotten in charge and stayed in charge for so long. It is almost incomprehensible.

the 10% of the country that has economically benefited from republican rule can't elect a govt on it's own.

(obviously this state of affairs is necessarily implicit in the situation which you describe) is so widespread and so accepted by so many people.

it could change everything, provided, of course, that the Palestinians are really willing, collectively (which means they have to REALLY control their own rejectionists), to deal.

if they could be everyone's problems would, eventually, be solved.

It has nothing to do with what men think, unless they are gay, but with concern about what women will think.

he would have no interest in what other men thought about his dick, or about anything else, really. It is by no means clear that size doesn't matter, and even if it doesn't that assurance doesn't mean much coming from women who appear to be ambivalent, at best, about dicks of any size.

There is very little connection between the size of a limp dick and the same dick hard. It is true no doubt, actually I am certain that it is, that some men aren't comfortable naked around women they aren't in the process of having sex with, because lots of women aren't aware, or they pretend not to be aware, of this fact.

I'd get a lot more sex with a lot less work.

I know that this just indicates my lack of understanding.

The only difference I can see between the status of straight men and the status of everyone else is that straight men, unlike every other group, have to work and/or pay(in some form) for sex.

but it irritates me that so many socially and culturally prominent voices are able to, with apparently a great deal of success, sell the idea that we are a minority or rare.

at it in a way that the dems haven't been before. The MSM coverage for instance, IS painting the GOP as obstructionist. No democrat in 30 years has been able to get them to do that.

This is exactly what he is doing, with some success apparently

except that it isn't clear, what, exactly, in practical terms any of that means. Unlike the difference I pointed to. If I could do whatever I want, whenever I want, with anyone I want, without anyone being able to do anything about it what would I need "privileges" for.

until they do we will know that it is.

as long as necessary principles are upheld and reality is not lost. There is no doubt that the issue isn't a simple one emotionally. In particular I can't understand why ANY woman, other that a committed religious dogmatist, could possibly be anything other than completely pro choice. Yet clearly many are ambivalent. If they were not the pro life movement would be a tiny fringe cult which no one would take seriously.

that would be a vain hope, though you are right in principle. Principles by themselves don't determine anything, you have to deal with political, emotional and cultural reality too.

(unless you don't have a choice) is an affirmative statement that you are willing to accept some people making the "wrong" choice and you are affirmatively distinguishing it from cases where you are NOT willing to allow this.

not because I think it is the only thing that matters in life. It is a real issue though, and if real peace, rather than forced submission, is what people are interested in then it will have to be dealt with. It remains very much an open question whether anyone is interested in doing so.

why do they have so MUCH trouble applying the same principle when a man is doing it. When women think they exclusively own everything in their environment it is almost unbelievable that men do ANYTHING. Actually the only reason they do is because they are a lot hornier and more romantic than women. If the roles were reversed women would be gone.

but it is not treated that way. The fact that it is not perfectly illustrates that law, reason and logic follow the election returns and the culture. You have to change peoples thinking, well feeling really, somehow, if you want change.

at the last gay pride parade 99% of the male spectators appeared to be wearing nylon rei type shorts and tech fabric. In other words they looked exactly like me, more like me in fact than I usually encounter in the straight world (not that the phrase has any meaning around here). It made me sort of nervous. Could you all go back to feather boas or something, I have enough problems getting across to women as it is.