A couple of people in this threat have asserted with apparent pride that they know how to deal with online death threats.

I've been active online (using my full name and picture) since I had a Compuserve account with numbers in it, and I've never received a death threat. I have been propositioned several times. A couple of people have questioned my analysis. I have been argued with on a technical point. People have offered me jobs. But no one's ever threatened to kill me.

Anyone want to clue me in on what I'm doing wrong?

in fact I hate the South. Not a place for social liberal and fiscal conservative, as I am. Get your shit straight the next time you open your piehole.

Is she battery-operated or do you have to plug her in?

Just wondering, what is it that you like in this woman you are seeing?

ROTFL.... generalizations are so deep.

P.S. - your rant on putting people in their place was pretty much a freak out session.. again so funny!

your chronic masturbation to online porn is affecting you.

Haha. It's so cute that you lie so often on the internet that you're actually starting to believe that you're a successful intelligent man that has a girlfriend. In reality I think we all know that you're a pathetic internet addict on a mission to piss of women in retaliation for the countless number of rejections you've no doubt received in your boring, desperate and meaningless life.

Oh, to Jonathon. No, "chasing" women is an affectation of young men seeking to prove themselves. I find that success and money tend to bring them to me.

No wonder you appear so insecure about women.

The only women who want you are more interested in your wallet than anything else about you. How humiliating that must be, I feel sorry for you.

I met my wife at the lowest point in my life, no money, no job and no car. I know she loves me for the person I am, not what I can give to her.

It's the rare person who, at the end of their life, says: "You know, I really wish I had spent more time at the office".

Please see picture accompanying story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/29/garden/29breakers.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

I realize you meant it tongue in cheek, but I think asking why you haven't had a death threat despite years of online presence is rather like someone asking why they haven't been mugged, murdered, or raped. There's an element of chance involved. Such behavior has much less to do with any particular virtue or lack thereof on behalf of the victim, and much more to do with simply happening to fall within the notice of someone who needs a victim.

I've had the friendly propositions as well, and know other females online who have. I think that while most of these are probably jokes, they're just as sexist as threatening to rape or kill because of gender.

Mars/Venus: nothing I said would be perceived as an insult between two men - you just don't get it, because you're a woman. And that's not an insult - it's along the lines of "you wouldn't get it, it's a black thing..."

You'll NEVER get it, LeCastor, but that's okay - that's why we like women - they're different than us...

and they smell better...

You know what I hate the most about your posts? It's that you use your own personal experience to justify your bigotry.

I would never say, all men make bad supervisors because the worst supervisors I have had have been men. (Mostly at dot.coms in the glorious 90's who had no exeperience supervising anything.)I know there are good male supervisors out there; I just haven't worked for them. I thought men were supposed to be the rational, give me hard facts and figure type, but you're hysterical woman-hating belies that particular stereotype.

Just in case you were wondering 1) all women aren't gold diggin hussies who cry harrasment in order to sue their company and wreck your life. 2) Sometimes women get raped, sexually harassed, or stalked by men. 3) They don't deserve that.

If some guy wrote you and said, I want to slit your throat and cum inside it,(which I'm sorry is much more graphic than say, threatening to kick your ass ) or whatever, and had your address and phone number and picture, would you be that blase about the whole thing? Oh, but its a woman. If she can't stand the heat, she oughta stay in the kitchen. It's not like women ever get murdered. Or raped. And that sometimes the person has been stalking and harassing them? No, but never in this day and age.

Whatever. If it makes you feel better that I'll purportedly NEVER get it, so be it. You can keep thinking that all you want. Though I must say it is a pretty pathetic way to build up your self-esteem and gender-esteem. But don't worry, i don't find it threatening.

Ben Dover, I'm still wondering about what it is that you like in this woman you are allegedly dating. It's true, you've lied so much that it's hard to know when you are telling the truth.

Most importantly, imagine if you read the same description of someone's significant other, except it was a woman writing that about a man. "I don't allow him to choose bottles from my wine cellar," "He doesn't come first," "Everything including him is expendable." you'd be the first one screaming about how the boyfriend is totally whipping, emasculated, pathetic, has no will, deserves no respect. I feel something like that about your purported girlfriend -- if this woman really does exist, and things are the way you describe them, i only have pity for her, because she's obviously weak-willing and has no self-respect if she allows herself to be treated this way by anyone.

What you say may be true, but it's nothing to be proud of. It's actually kind of sad.