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Where is the switch ...
posted by Adam on 01:47 PM June 13th, 2004
News CrimsonArrow writes "... so we can turn Amy Alkon off?! A guy writes in a simple question at McCall.com and proceeds to get blasted by a long winded femi-speech. Excerpt: 'Men want beautiful women. Women want men of status and power. Deal with it. This isn't some new phenomenon. Any man alive today is a beauty-grubber descended from a very, very long line of beauty-grubbers — stretching all the way back to the Pleistocene era. Likewise, modern women are hard-wired to be ''gold-diggers'' — descended from an equally long line of female ancestors who would have sold their hairy left knuckle to bear Joe Alpha's furry little children.'

I think it best that this guy take Bernard Chapin's advice from his articles, The Presumption Against Marriage parts [1] & [2]

' ... with women, unless they’re without flaw, my advice is to ride the train for as long as you can, but let some other sucker pay for its maintenance and servicing, and always make sure you get off of the route before it reaches matrimonial terminal.'"

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Unoffensively Funny Retort (Score:2)
by Roy on 04:10 PM June 13th, 2004 EST (#1)
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I thought Amy's reply was pretty damn funny, and not of the typical feminist male-bashing variety.

She points out, in good tit-for-tat humor, that women and men are biologically programmed to seek material security and fertile beauty respectively in the opposite sex.

Moral of the story? A woman asking a man what he makes in salary is akin to a man asking a woman to flash her boobs.

Just an inherent difference in preferred currencies...

 
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Re:Unoffensively Funny Retort (Score:1)
by CrimsonArrow on 05:19 PM June 13th, 2004 EST (#2)
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Yes, I can see after having read Amy's blog and this link that I may have overstated the intent of humor. Indeed, Amy is tired of both sides (men & women) whining; and that both sides need to lighten up.


Truly, I can see where a columnist that takes a simple question and adds assumptions to be a smart-ass at the expense of the letter writer can be funny. (There was no evidence that the gentleman objectified women. Maybe he does ... but then again, maybe he does not.)



Anyway, I suppose I reacted too quick. *Bang* I'm dead.


Still love those Chapin articles, though.
Re:Unoffensively Funny Retort (Score:1)
by Gregory on 09:03 PM June 13th, 2004 EST (#4)
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Amy doesn't seem like such a bad sort after hearing her on Glenn Sacks' radio show a little while back. But she should appreciate the significant political and social power that feminists have, and the damage they've done to men, women and families. I also feel that it's important to point out that males aren't the only ones who place importance on physical appearance when sizing up a potential romantic partner.
Re:Unoffensively Funny Retort (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 01:08 PM June 14th, 2004 EST (#6)
>"males aren't the only ones who place importance on physical appearance when sizing up a potential romantic partner."

That's for DARN sure!!!
When's the last time you saw a soap opera "hunk" with a pot belly, big nose and a really bad comb-over? When's the last time you saw a woman's romance novel with a skinny, scrawny toothless dweeb on the front cover as the hero.
This whole "only MEN care about looks" buisness is TOATAL b.s.! My observations have always been that women can be just as superficial as men, and in some cases MORE SO!

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the Chapin articles are classics (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 06:14 PM June 13th, 2004 EST (#3)

What Chapin writes is so true. And I give him even more credibility for having gotten engaged in Dec. Sorry, Bernie, that you didn't get your miracle. But keep believing in miracles!


I like the bait and switch. (Score:1)
by ASDJKL on 11:03 PM June 13th, 2004 EST (#5)
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Yeah with 67 percent of Americans being obese the chance the one this guy is going to end up dating is going to be the beauty that just stepped off of Sports Illustrated. In fact the majority of the models on Sports Illustrated aren't even Americans.
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