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klaatu <root@earthops.org> wrote:



>>>> excuse me? what does "men being men" mean?
Just so everyone knows, i wrote this line above. All your things were
sort of confusing.

>>>We men have our own little gender-culture psychological hangups. Men are
>>>much less likely to see a doctor, unless there is an injury or illness
>>>that is perceived as immediately life-threatening. That's a stats-fact.
>>>2/3rds of ofice visits to doctors are by women. Unless of course you
>>>want to follow the line of argument that women are just so much weaker
>>>than men? Didn't think you would.

well here's a stat Matt. Women's lives are more stressful.

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>>>Far from it. but I long ago stopped counting the number of women I had
>>>known who were in destructive relationships, who would come crying to
>>>their peers about how jonny done beat 'em something awful (black eyes
>>>and all) and then by the time midnight rolled around, they were in about
>>>8 out of ten cases knocking the bed against the walls to the generic
>>>disgust of their neighbors and friends, who like as not would themselves
>>>play out the same stupid scene sometime in the near future.

What does rearranging furniture have to do with this topic?
personally i resent your tangenential straying. 

>>>And oddly enough, most of the guys I ever knew who were abused
>>>themselves were basically the guys who evidently learned form this that
>>>the way to get a night of the best sex in months was to beat the wife.
>>>Evidently the wife finally realized that she was sending the wrong
>>>message and gave them the midnight frying pan treatment.

oh right.
>>>> >>>But I must say that devoting an entire office of the Department of
>>>> >>>Justice exclusively to violence against women, it's absurd. It'll stop
>>>> >>>being absurd, if only by comparison, when they also have an office for
>>>> >>>henpecked men.
>>>> 
>>>> uh huh. You don't like women very much do ya?

>>>My like or dislike of women has nothing to do with the sexism and
>>>absurdity of having a Federal office which only prosecutes violence
>>>against women.

>>>I don't suggest that this office nor the underlying laws be abolished,
>>>but instead of Violence Against Women, it shold more likely be Violence
>>>Against Spouses or Violence Against Significant Others.

>>>what's good for the goose is good for the gander you know, they're both
>>>fowl. 
Look. why don't you get a coalition of men who are henpecked and
battered with frying pans and go march on Washington and get an office
then? But you're not..and you wanna know why? I'll tell ya why...there
would probably be only about 10 people in the whole country who would
show up that's why!!! No offense but your reasoning is just a tad
weird.
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> --
>>>> >>>> Rex
>>>> >>>> rex@intr.net

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