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Friday, September 7, 2007 04:05 PM

Yawn, Brightstar you're boring!

Femophob, I mean brightstar. The biggest hole in your Swiss cheese argument is that men can be both strong inside and still respectful to women. One does not have to disrespect women, to prove that he is macho or a man. I am a hard core, touch love, DYI, gun totting kind of guy, and I still prefer a strong willed, independent woman. If you like weak women that's your problem, but the rest of us modern men like our women to think for themselves, make their own decision, earn their own money, and be assertive in public, because those traits in our women complement our inner strength.

If you're a man who wants his woman to be weak, that's probably because you're weak inside, and the only way that you can be dominate is if your woman is also weak. Well I'm a strong man who wants (and has) a strong woman.

Friday, September 7, 2007 04:22 PM

@Happy Feet

So you really think the southern Zombie has a chance against Senator Clinton? I can't imagine any of the Republican candidates looking better than Hillary when matched up against her. Romney is too flip-flopy, McCain has got his head up his ass on Iraq, Rudy's surrounded by incompetent cronies, but Ghouly looking, slow, lazy, Thompson projects considerably less strength than Clinton does. We want strength in 08, and Senator Clinton (tough guy that she is) has got that in spades, where as Thompson looks like he will crumble when faced with the leadership of Al-Qaeda, Iran, or North Korea.

Hillary may be a ball breaker, but Thompson looks like he needs to be put on life support.

Friday, September 7, 2007 04:51 PM

@Femophob

Femophob I did not marry my mother, and my mother wants to kick your ass for suggesting that (so I guess that is why you kept your comment anonymous), and I am not afraid of the English language, so no, I am not an English-language-phob.

Friday, September 7, 2007 09:21 PM

Response to "I'm going to let the ladies in on a little secret about men."

To bad Anonymous didn't give his/her name, because then we would be able to find out how many Feminists he/she has actually slept with. Considering he/she posted his/her warped comment Anonymously, I suspect he/she has slept with none.

To clarify my earlier comment about why I don't feel my masculinity is threatened by Feminists, I have only slept with 5 women in this life, and when I wrote that my support of Feminists has gotten me laid often, I meant with my Feminist girlfriend/wife at the time on many occasions while she was/is my Feminist girlfriend/wife.

Sorry if my attempt at humor was taken as an implication that Feminists are easy, because in my experience they are not, but all the Feminists I have been in a relationship were/are great lovers.

Saturday, September 8, 2007 12:41 AM

AKA Smith's bonafides

She mentioned that she had to fight with her younger brothers over Westerns on TV when she was a kid, so I believe that supports her assertion that she is at least in her early 50s. Paxil was put on the market in 1992, and AKA smith made it sound like she had been one of the first patients it was prescribed to. That would have been at most 15 years ago, however she didn't specify if she was a teacher or a student (she did say she was an English teacher, but she also said her "heavy credit load", but is that the same thing as saying she was a student?) while at college when she was prescribed Paxil. But lets not forget that she could have been a student in her late 30s to 40s rather than a student in her late teens or twenties.

In any case if she's a bot, then she is a bot with a damn impressive AI, and I don't think she needs to prove anything to us about herself personally.

Saturday, September 8, 2007 01:09 AM
Original article: Girls' suicide rates soar

@AKA Smith

I believe love cures all, my lady. At least from personal experience I know love cures PTSD.

Personally I am terrified of all mood-altering drugs, and I have never used mood-altering drugs, even recreationally. I don't even drink, because I hate the way even small amounts of alcohol affects me.

Thanks for sharing your experiences with SSRIs. I am sure that they have worked for some people, but personally I am going to use physical therapy and support from my loved ones to solve any problems that I may develop in the future.

Saturday, September 8, 2007 12:52 PM
Original article: Girls' suicide rates soar

@Raider

Why don't you do us all a big favor, and off yourself raider. The world would be a much happier place without you.

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