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Dudes try "dating Darwinism"

An author argues that angry young men are becoming assholes to try to get women.

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  • Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:44 PM

    "It's a culture that's not yet egalitarian"

    So says Clark-Flory.

    I agree! You'll be my equals, ladies, when the dead in Iraq are 2000 men & 2000 women, not 4000+ men and 33 women. You'll be "equal" when the men in your lives have exactly the same reproductive choices that you enjoy, or can decide to quit their shitty job and expect that you'll support them. You'll be equal when they can to divorce you and keep their kids, and when you're lucky to see your children 4 days a month. When either you come up with the child support or go to jail. You'll be equal when I see females picking up my trash, unclogging my toilet, or doing any other dangerous, filthy, low status, "loser" job, not because its "fulfilling" but because without the money it furnishes you'll fall from "loser" to nothing at all.

    "Let's not make this a war between the sexes?"

    Seriously?? It's bout 40 years late for that, and a laughably offensive statement coming from a snide, self-serving, relentlessly gender warrior like Clark-Flory.

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