It seems to me that I see a lot more average guys with doughy girls than average girls with doughy guys.

If anything, I think the hyper attention women pay to weight is that they place such a high value on the guys they date not being fat.

I suppose women are entitled to be more fickle and to avoid men who are overweight, but the argument seems to point the finger YET AGAIN at men and their choices, when largely I see a lot of men quite tolerant of fatties.

Feminists NEED the "Patriarchy" to avoid responsibility. If they said "the way things are" they'd have to admit women co-create the world. That without active female support things would not be as they are.

I think this is deeper in human nature; it's this temptation we all have to believe that society is the result of some set of "conspiracies" that explain all social inequalities.

Now that that's settled, you women can continue on with your attitudes, unimpeded.

You may be right, AKA Smith. His big "no-Mommie-Dearest" sentence shows much less structure than his usual generic statements, and looks more like some primal yawp. But then again, I'm not sure; his usual women-as-the-source-of-all-evil-for-men stance, if really consistently believed, should lead him to see mothers mostly as oppressive forces for their children--it would make sense to him--even if his relationship to his mother weren't really so troubled.

This analysis of other people's statements to try to deduce if there is a weakness or impetus to a person's arguments is destructive and cynical.

I suppose men are SLACKING by not trying to expose all individual feminists' arguments as ALSO due to some combination of factors in these feminists that, when ascertained (by the judgment of the accuser) would allow that person's arguments to be also ignored as a result.

The other thing that bothers me is that it is OK for women to consider MEN to be the source of all evil. Women are never called to the mat for that (at least not until recently). Yet MMM's attitude is considered anomalous and to be disdained.

I would argue that since the AVERAGE woman has more overall power in her life than does the AVERAGE man, that if anything, it is MORE LEGITIMATE for people to consider WOMEN to be the source of all evil rather than the men.

That this is not the prevailing sentiment in society, with women successfully making it seem the opposite, only further proves not only how much power women actually wield in this society, but that women are ALL THE MORE diabolical in having twisted the VERY FABRIC OF REALITY to try to obscure their own culpability (apparently, quite close to successfully).

I WANT to retire well before I die, preferably by the time I am 50.

It is true, I do not need a lot to live on, but being broke AGAIN because the value of my house got squeezed to below my mortgage is not my fault, it is the fault of evil, greedy people (the ones you hated in high school, for good reason, apparently, because they are psychopaths) who I do not yet see being strung up for having fucked up this economy.

Somebody needs to suffer for this, because they caused it. Not you. Not me. This issue needs to be pressed until the guilty parties are brought to JUSTICE.

As a result of what is going on now, this former good person has become a nihilist. I no longer trust anyone. Not the people who steered me into the 'sure bet' of the mortgage, not the ones who gave me other financial advice, not anyone. They benefited from this, at MY expense.

This letter writer has the luxury of being FEMALE. A man without money or a meaningful life is NOTHING. A young women without money or a job still HAS something.

This translates DIRECTLY into the bottom line. How much pull or influence I have with women.

I will never borrow another fucking dollar in my life, if I have a choice. I will live cheap as hell until I can buy for cash. My life is finished until I get back from being worth less than ZERO right now, this after 20 solid years of working 40-55 hour weeks.

Everybody is a leech and an opportunist in this society. They merely ape the party line that their industry has optimized to extract the most wealth out of people. As such, these people are all ALSO guilty of thriving on the backs of innocent and naive people.

Really, society needs to change and to begin pointing fingers where they need to be pointed. Right now, society is a complete failure. The innocent are poor again, the guilty are richer than ever. Quit lying to kids that it is anything but such.

Just who created this slacker mindset, that the letter writer espouses, anyway?

Best I can tell, it can be traced back to the writings of the Bible.

I got news for youse. The Bible is a series of writings produced at the behest of wealthy elitist patrons eons ago who were seeking to protect themselves by creating a class of obeisant and peaceful slaves.

The easier to extract wealth out of the slaves when you can make them convince themselves that it was all OK and meant to be and you do not need money to live anyway.

By now the elites, along with their sycophantic servants like Paulson and Bush, must be laughing so hard at us rubes that their beluga caviar is forcefully squirting out their noses.