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Friday, December 23, 2005 05:30 PM

btw, isn't having a big vagina a bad thing?

only if the man(men) in question has a small(relatively) cock

Friday, December 23, 2005 04:40 PM

This kind of confirms what I've always suspected; even right

wingers, at least the ones who function in a modern society, aren't stupid enough to believe their own bullshit.

Friday, December 23, 2005 04:31 PM
Original article: A little year-end outrage

i though Boortz was joking, isn't he an (intentional)comedian?

I guess someone doesn't think he's funny

Friday, December 23, 2005 04:15 PM

i hate to be the one to break it to lots of you

but as long as women are asking with ANY kind of seriouness "Are Men Necessary?" these discussions are going to happen somehow somewhere, and/or there will be other reactions. Unless all men become gay.

Friday, December 23, 2005 01:14 PM

Hey, if she wants to say it was sarcasm let it go for gods sake

The fact is some women do think this way for real and proudly assert the correctness of doing so, I'm satisfied with anything less. Being a man I am of course pathetically tolerant of women behaving badly.

Friday, December 23, 2005 12:19 PM

Of course men don't particulary want dumb women, but

they would like to be with women who won't treat them as a total moron slave and if the woman thinks she is smarter that is what she will do. Men, unlike women, don't acquire "rights" in a relationship by anatomy alone, they have to "earn" it by being accomplished and if they can't and the woman lowers herself to be with him he has to compensate her somehow.

Thursday, December 22, 2005 02:24 PM
Original article: "The law is king"

Oops

I guess he isn't

Thursday, December 22, 2005 02:14 PM
Original article: "The law is king"

Actually Bluementhal is a lawyer

He was Clinton's lawyer

Thursday, December 22, 2005 02:12 PM
Original article: "The law is king"

The reason the right goes so far is because for a certain

percentage of the population adherence to "gods law", most specifically no blowjobs, trumps everything, and I mean everything else. The totally illegal impeachment of Clinton proved that. After they got away with that they were willig to do, and believed themselves entitled to do, anything to win, as an examination of the record will show.

Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:32 PM

Anytime things go badly people who think this way take advantage

of fear to try and create a climate where people are more submissive to authority. Look at all the poeple who were called traitors for any criticizing Bush anytime after 911. It is disturbing how easy it is for these (semi)latent fascist attitudes to immeidiately acquire great influence anytime something goes wrong. We better make sure nothing ever does.

Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:10 PM
Original article: What is this ad about?

I agree, the guys looked like total assholes,

but I thought the girl seemed really nice. :)

Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:35 AM

It did it again

if any polling or research has been done as to how prevalent this thinking is. Hiding it won't accomplish anything

Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:33 AM

I am really really curious though, does anyone know if these attitudes have

Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:31 AM

So you honestly want us to believe that you think that extortion and threats

are the same thing as talking a girl into taking her top off. Gee why do men have a bad attitute towards the self proclaimed defenders of women.

Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:18 AM
Original article: Sex Fifth Avenue, take two

Of course some strippers and janitors are stupid and to get through law school

or medical school requires some intelligence, but the average janitor or stripper isn't necessarily stupider than a "higher" class of person. This fantasy has always been used to justify the status quo. Look at our stupid, I mean that literally, president. Any man who goes on about how stupid strippers or porn stars or for that matter attractive women in general are will be rightly suspected of having an emotional agenda.

Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:06 AM

They've probably given up trying to appeal to everyone and are focusing

on making it more of what the people who like it want. I mean ask yourself: Is there ANYTHING they could do to make you approve of it and want to watch it?

Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:50 AM
Original article: What is this ad about?

The insistence that everyone is bi actually contributes to anti-gay

sentiment, I think. I'm not disputing the existence of true classical homophobia, but the insistence that there is a gay subtext to everyting that happens with all men is pretty annoying to men who actually know that there is nothing there in many cases.

Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:45 AM
Original article: What is this ad about?

I thought the Baily's commercial was about the guy

interfering with the "drip guys"s attempt to get the girl. I guess it never occured to me that the drip meant anything until she did something with it. I see now though how there could be a different interpretation but I think it's possible it was intended only as I originally interpereted it.

Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:22 AM
Original article: Sex Fifth Avenue

It's more than making fun when somebody goes to the

trouble of organizing a boycott, besides which I am responding to a specific statement where someone, presumably a woman, complained about access to women being seen as a reward, implying there was a problem which should be addressed somehow. Which I did by stating the facts underlying the situation about which she was complaining.

Wednesday, December 21, 2005 05:53 PM
Original article: Sex Fifth Avenue, take two

and I explained WHY they are angrier

get it now?

Wednesday, December 21, 2005 05:49 PM

So there is hope for the world after all

How long before the whole world is like this, oh yeah, never IF men start behaving properly that is.

Wednesday, December 21, 2005 04:52 PM
Original article: Sex Fifth Avenue, take two

Either you forgot what you wrote or didn't read mine

try again

Wednesday, December 21, 2005 04:49 PM
Original article: Drop the crop top

Oh you really are doing it for your health!

and all the time I thought there was another motive. How sadly cynical can you get.

Wednesday, December 21, 2005 04:44 PM

I thought there was a shortage of nurse training capacity and

not a shortage of people willing to be trained to be nurses. Is there a real need for more male applicants now or is there another purpose.

Wednesday, December 21, 2005 04:28 PM
Original article: Sex Fifth Avenue

If women stop requiring men to perform socially, economically,

culturally, etc. in order to be with them and will be attracted to any man with a penis and who isn't actively psychotic, as men are attracted to any women (the non psychotic part is optional) then men will stop seeing women as a reward. I don't think it's men who object to this change being made. Women need to get over their state of denial (I've never been able to tell if this is poliitically conveninet denial or genuine delusion) of the fact that men have to work for it and women don't if any kind of meaningfull discussion is ever to take place.

Wednesday, December 21, 2005 04:07 PM
Original article: Sex Fifth Avenue, take two

Why couldn't Jenna Jameson be reasonably literate.

Lots of literate people have shitty jobs and might rather do porn or strip or whatever, the days when being able to read and write were a meal ticket are over in case no one has noticed. Pete, the reason people care is because anti-porn and anti-sex activists are trying to tell other people what to do. Nobody is trying to force anyone to watch porn or playboy bunnies, if they were it might make sense to equate the two positions in some way, but they aren't and it doesn't

Tuesday, December 20, 2005 05:17 PM
Original article: Sex Fifth Avenue

Personally I don't think there is any need to bother with the revirigination

in case you are putting together a business plan

Tuesday, December 20, 2005 05:09 PM

Smart articulate women AND no sex.

Who could ask for more?

Tuesday, December 20, 2005 04:01 PM
Original article: Pro-choice, or anti-sperm?

Lots of pro-choicers are anti-sperm

This is news?

Tuesday, December 20, 2005 02:12 PM

It would be difficult/impossilbe to market a specific product

for men because it's all just skin. I don't know how they get away with it for women either really

Tuesday, December 20, 2005 01:48 PM
Original article: Bad education

So no 16 yo girl would want to have sex?

Glad we cleared that up, thank God the wingers will be out some day and the sane people in charge.

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