Letters to the Editor
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And you guys are waiting for...?
>All my 40+ male friends and I agree that, whatever else, Maureen Dowd is smoking hot. Smoking.<
Well, for the love of God, will one of you all _please_ date/marry her already so she can stop tearing other women down because she can't find a "suitably" manly-man to treat her like the good little submissive Irish-Catholic wifey she longs to be? Come on, guys. For the sake of humanity...and opening up the NYC editorial page to a truly intelligent female writer...:).
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Heh...
>Maureen, dear, what's the common denominator in all those failed relationships? That's right, honey. It's you.<
That...and her inexplicable taste for men who simply can't deal with smart women. Aaron Sorkin? John Tierney?! Michael Douglas!?!? Man, how desperate do you have to be to want to put up with their mess--and become wifey to any one of them? Yeesh...
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Backlash
As evidence that high-earning women are disliked by men, Dowd refers to another trend article which has scant evidence, and she refers to a fictional tv show. That is a text-book definition of backlash faux-journalism.
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@cordelia
I'm not criticizing speed dating (as I said, I don't even know what it is). I don't care how other people date each other. Personally, I got engaged to my husband a month after our first date - so I'm not really in a position to criticize other people for their speed! Whatever works for you is fine with me. I'm criticizing using an analysis of speed dating as a legitimate way to study what people look for in a long-term partner. Maybe I'm just not understanding what speed dating really is, but it sounds like people would be going with impulsive reactions more than usual. If that's not the case, please enlighten me.
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Actually husbands and wives often have similar IQs
At least in relationships that last.
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We Can Only Pray
That the Dragon Lady Clinton becomes a flight attendant and gets out of our public life.
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Since when HAVEN'T men assessed women by their sexual desireability?
I mean honestly, when the words "I'd hit that," leave my husband's vocabulary, I'll believe that he's capable of assessing a woman's actual value beyond whether he's want to "date" her or not.
Amusingly enough, he works with and is supervised by some super-incredibly competent women and gets VERY upset when anyone is disrespectful to them or implies that they are less than competent or less than in command (it's the military, this is an appropriate term) because they are "just girl chiefs."
Paradox much?
Schah.
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Sorry Deering.
Dating/marrying Maureen Dowd isn't possible for any of my friends and I because:
1) We're all already married,
2) She wouldn't give guys like us the time of day even in the unlikely event that our paths crossed.
Maybe this fact even adds to her desirability? Like Groucho Marx's, "I don't want to join any club that would accept me as a member".
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Speed Dating?
Men who speed date have less-than purely noble intentions?
Yes. It's called "Speed Dating".
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I want a president that I'd feel comfortable with on a date . . .
Lest we forget -- a whole lotta folks voted for Bush because they wanted a president they felt was the kind of guy they could "have a beer with." Personally, I don't want the president to be my friend, drinking buddy or good date material -- I want them to be able to run the country. Just my opinion.
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P.S.
And that doesn't mean a president who runs the country into the ground.
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I don't know about for a date
but for a president I DEFINTELY don't want someone whose ONLY capability is the ability to deliver a good a** r*****g