Letters to the Editor
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My male friend of twenty-eight years
would be surprised to find that he cannot really be friends with me, that it has to be all about sex -- especially since we haven't had sex for twenty-five years. Must be something else besides sex. We've been there for each other for all these years offering mutual support, advice, and sometimes criticism, through my divorce and his affairs (he manages to stay married), our children's amazing bad choices, his political scandals, my bizarre employment ups and downs, his books being well-reviewed but selling poorly, my custody battle, my father's death, his mother's blindness, my mother Alzheimers, his father's bankruptcy, my MFA debacle, his brush with anorexia, my cancer scare.
It's a peculiar thing about friendship. It sometimes lasts just when you think it would have no reason to. I'm a yellow dog Democrat. He comes from a long live of traditional Republicans. He is a lapsed Episcopalian. I have tried so many religions only to land at vague skepticism.
When we had sex, he was barely 18 and I was 28. He was heading off to one of the Ivies and I was cheating on my husband. We had a great, brief fling. Yet just when I thought several times that he was out of my life and even when I had shooed him off, he would show up again. Maybe we are still a little in love with each other, but those embers are covered with ash. Maybe he just imprinted on me -- like a duckling.
Friendship between a man and a woman? Nah! Not possible. Must be sex.
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Exception proves the rule
moron. Sorry, but you only demonstrated your nature by admitting you shit on your husband. Aren't you are wonderful fucked up person. I sucks to be you. PS: I didn't say all men, I said most men. What? No response in regards to women getting far less prison time than men for the same crimes. Again, quit talking out of your ass unless you can prove what you are saying with something other than your own miserable personal experience and use actual data.
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What Bend Over means by a male "code of honor"
He means that men are supposed ask their friends before they agree to swap women and that men owe no honorable behavior to women because women are all sluts or old hags.
Of course, Bend is just fantasizing because most women would sooner have sex with a syphilitic nonagenerian dwarf who drools than hook up with Bend Over.
Of course we all know his "code of honor" doesn't preclude lying. Bend lies frequently. It's getting laid that he cannot manage to do -- unless he pays for it.
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Another anonymous
fatty opens her piehole about something she knows nothing about. Women have no code of honor. They have venal, vindictive attitudes and always take the low road. It is their nature. PS: I love how Ron Perlman pulled the ripcord on his last wife before the prenuptial expired. Sure, she made some money but he saved a lot more but dumping her.
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so she did all the cheating
So the next time someone like her male friend has sex with someone else's wife, as he did, or stabs some other guy in the back to rise up the corporate ladder, etc. etc., I"ll fondly think of you and your "code of honor" among men. Hee hee. What planet are you living on?
Incidentally, when B.D. calls you a moron, dumbass, or whatever, consider it to mean that you've said something intelligent, he's frustrated that he has nothing to argue back with, so like an undisciplined little brat he just starts in with the name-calling.
Also, Ben, regarding all these studies, someone who is seriously interested in the truth generally reads reputable data first, THEN formulates an opinion. NOT go out and search for the piece with the message that just happened to suit whatever you already believe. It's called having an open mind.
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re lies
I realize it's all old news, but yeah, Ben got MBAs from both Yale and Princeton. He said so himself, in salon letters--it must be true! Talk about integrity!!!
Ben, you're here for our amusement, and you're good for a jolt and a cringe to those of us who haven't had a chance to grab our coffee yet. Also, you make everyone, male and female, supremely grateful not to be you. The other person is right--no san woman out there would ever want to fuck you (hookers don't count!). And you are clearly not getting laid, but which is the real root behind all your bitterness toward women. Try not being an asshole sometime,.
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how dare you criticize Ben, Anonymous(es)
You must be old and fat. (but the theory sounds good!).
Re Ellen Barkin, she made $21 million just in selling off the jewelry he gave her. Sounds pretty sweet to me--how much more money does she need? Plus he's been married a bunch of times, is supposed to be an asshole (Ben would know) and he's pretty damn ugly if I'm thinking of the right guy. Sounds like a real catch.
Then after the divorce, she dated GEORGE CLOONEY for a while. Talk about upgrading!!!! Ellen, you rock!
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I am the Anonymous 9:24
Yes, I did cheat on my husband. Of course he was a sex addict who cheated me about seven times before I decided to get even. Men who cheat on their wives, should realize that women now can try to get even, but probably we can't keep up. Men who habitually cheat are pretty much incurable. I eventually divorced my husband. My friend still cheats but is slowing down since he got older. I have kept his secrets. I have also kept one secret from him: I have it on very good authority that his wife has attempted to get even. Are they messed up. Sure they are! Human beings make incredible fools of themselves.
However, you Ben Dover, seem to be some sort of champion fool around here. I bet you earned your reputation.
Consider me just another fan.
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"desperate men"
So you're finally admitting you're desperate? It's starting to make sense now!
Wow, all the self-hatred channelled outward--kind of freaky, ain't it?
"I sucks" is right, Ben!
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Yes, "reality" Barkin made money, that was the intent
of the prenuptial, to limit Perlman's exposure. Had he let it lapse his net worth of $7 Billion would have taken a serious hit. As it stands he paid, net out of pocket, 6/10ths of 1% of his total, provable net worth. His exposure would have been hundreds of millions had he not dumped her before the prenup expired. Money well spent.