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Thursday, October 25, 2007 12:00 AM

What's so funny about abusive girlfriends?

News about women's role in domestic violence inspires comedy, as well as cries in defense of men.
Carol Lloyd

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  • Friday, October 26, 2007 04:49 PM

    women are conflicted about mates who are stronger, meaner, tougher etc than them, for men it is all bad

    that is why women are more likely to stick around. The biological reality that caused these instinctively different reactions to evolve also explains a lot of other things about the way men and women relate to their own gender and to each other.

    —Anonymous

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