Sorry, but I just don't believe that men are that turned off by a mate who brings in money. Why on earth would they be? Unless they are afraid that money confers power on the higher earning mate?

I think the letter two previous basically said it all:

I’m not going to pay the bills—I feel like his mother—and then come home and suck his dick.

Also, when people ask what one does there are always vague categories like "I'm in sales" or "I work for a computer company" and then switching the subject to the other person.

I'm fond of "I'll show you my assets if you'll show me yours."

I challenge Robert Franklin's "stereotype of stereotypes". Yes, there are men presented as dumb and incompetent. There are also men presented as intelligent and competent. Yes, there are women presented as intelligent and competent. There are also women presented as dumb and incompetent ("dumb blonde").

Now, nobody has time to watch ALL media, and I really don't watch that much, but I sure as heck don't see the "guys are dumber than women" meme Robert Franklin so frequently complains is ubiquitous. I mean, even in the Simpsons, it's not that men aren't too bright, but rather that Homer isn't.

Interesting reading, Parson Jim, but it fails to support the points, and does so in ways that strongly suggest bias. For instance, they compare positive and negative portrayals of men against each other rather than against comparable ratios of females - therefore providing literally no evidence whatsoever rather than just the statistically limited evidence they were claiming. Then, you have the widespread reporting of men's violent crime - which suggests nothing but the well established fact that men do a lot more violent criminal damage than women.

It's kind of sad to see a whole wall of text like that and have to discard virtually all of it on the most basic and painfully obvious grounds.

I wish I had so many applicants that I could summarily dismiss potential mates based on ridiculous assumptions. It's quite hard to be a guy on these sites, there's no telling what you'll get rejected for; I suspect it's mostly exactly this sort of whimsical nonsense women use to pare down an otherwise overwhelming list of suitors.

The State of Utah will never shake the accusation that Jeffs was unfairly targeted due to religious bigotry and other impure motives unless it follows through and prosecutes Steed as well.

And now that they have, do you think they will shake that accusation?

That being said, we have every reason to think that the problem (underage forced "marriage") is systematic in that community. That system needs to be dismantled, and what better place to start than the top? I don't think the occasional prosecution of the rare individual is going to suffice to stop the practice.

Whoa, Chris, that came out of lefty field. Psychosis is not the same as being religious. Andrea Yates was diagnosed as psychotic long before she killed her children; her case never turned on whether she was insane (everyone agreed on that), only on the specifics thereof. Mental health institutions for the criminally insane are hardly comfortable, and many inmates are never released, even when they would have otherwise been paroled.

...I don't recall him demanding that Chelsea serve in Kosovo.

She wasn't old enough.

Hillary Clinton stated last night that she cannot guarantee that our troops will be out of Iraq by 2013. If Hillary is elected president, with the sissy Tim Grieve demanded that Chelsea enlist the next day?

Quite possibly. Salon is not going to suddenly turn pro-war, pro-hypocrite just because a relatively hawkish Democrat is elected.

Yes, Ozeki's story was fictional but she sure got people thinking about the growth hormones in our food supply.

Meh. Weakest source out there. Nail polish is likely to give you a higher dose of problematic compounds. Even bottled water. This particular supposed correlation has gotten a lot of press, but the evidence is that it's not a significant factor. It never made much sense in the first place: BGH doesn't stimulate the same receptors as its human equivalent (HGH), nor is it present in quantities substantial enough to factor even if it was HGH, and worst of all, it's a protein and almost entirely broken down in digestion anyway.

...the point is that cash or color - the victim suffered the same fate.

...I am just as dead if I am deliberately killed for money or killed because I belong to vulnerable, discriminated against population, and the suffering of my family & friends would be the same as well.

The victim is just as dead regardless of how they were killed, of course. However, in a hate crime, as I understand it, the class as a whole is targeted, and the crime isn't just against the individual.

I.e., if you kill a specific lesbian for her money, you "just" killed a person. If you killed a lesbian for being lesbian, you've not just committed a murder, you've committed an act of terrorism against lesbians in general.

Whenever I here "Tamil" my first thought is of the "Tamil Tigers" of the Sri Lankan civil war. But those are Tamil Eelam rather than Tamil Nadu.

With the dollar dropping in value against gold, oil, and most other currencies, it stands to reason that it would also drop in value against stocks.

What I want to know is, how many Republicans are donating to Hillary's primary on the principle that they figure she's the most beatable candidate? After all, it was primarily Republicans who moved Joe Lieberman from losing his primary to winning his general election.

Careful...WMDs WERE found in Iraq...remember the SARIN gas missles?

A degraded and essentially non-functional byproduct of what was once a sarin gas warhead is not a weapon of mass destruction by any standard. A simple explosive is far deadlier.