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Maybe you should just be single
NewStatesmen ^ | 02/16/2017 | Laurie Penny

Posted on 09/05/2017 2:33:53 PM PDT by BJ1

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To: Lazamataz

She has a certain je ne sais quoi...


21 posted on 09/05/2017 2:54:40 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Lazamataz

It would be wrong to sexually objectify that hot little strumpet...


22 posted on 09/05/2017 2:55:23 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: BJ1

Couples who wed after the age of twenty five have a better chance of a lasting relationship


23 posted on 09/05/2017 2:57:28 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: BJ1
"If you’re reading this, there’s a not insignificant chance that you are one or several of the following: a) young b) female c) single or d) nauseated by the sheer volume of saccharine romantic propaganda sloshing around the public sphere at this particular time of year. But none of us live outside culture, and feeling frustrated on Valentine’s Day doesn’t make you stupid or duped or a mindless drone for the greetings-card industry. "

Female, single and enjoying my freedom to be who I am and stuff.

24 posted on 09/05/2017 2:57:29 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Liberals Do Not Want Children To Be Children)
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To: Lazamataz

Looks like a tranny. Ick.


25 posted on 09/05/2017 2:58:17 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Government employees and welfare recipients are both net tax consumers. Often for life.)
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To: Nifster

couples married after 90 have the best chance of a life-long marriage. Just saying.


26 posted on 09/05/2017 2:58:37 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: dfwgator

LOL!


27 posted on 09/05/2017 3:00:32 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Lazamataz
She just hasn't found the cure yet!
(A real man)
That's is why you’re all cranked up man!
28 posted on 09/05/2017 3:00:42 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: BJ1
IMO, here's the best example in the article of how this author completely misses the point:

It’s just that I think compulsory heterosexual monogamy is the least romantic idea since standardised testing, and I don’t see why our best ideals of love and lust and passion and dedication need to be boxed into it.

We are genetically programmed to partner up in monogamous relationships. It really doesn't matter if you want to think of this Darwinistically or Biblically: You still get the same answer. Human babies require far, far more time and effort to raise than other mammal babies. This means that two parents are essential for raising offspring; ergo, strong monogamous partnerships are instinctive. You can most easily achieve satisfaction and happiness when you satisfy your natural instincts.

I could go on with this explanation for hours, but I will leave it there.

29 posted on 09/05/2017 3:02:28 PM PDT by j. earl carter
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To: BJ1
Might be too that women tend to want marriage more than men. Especially when men get what they want without commitments — free milk/cow. Not a happy situation, though.

However, women tend to become less independent when the ol’ biological clock winds down. Not good because most men at their age are married, divorced, with kids, and are not interested. “All of the good ones are married.”

30 posted on 09/05/2017 3:04:40 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Dude. It’s Sammich.

and don’t put a damn piece of avocado on it.


31 posted on 09/05/2017 3:05:16 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Lazamataz

That is why she is wearing black. She’s a “black widow.”


32 posted on 09/05/2017 3:09:06 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: BJ1

It already went up from the history 10% to 20% for Baby Boomer women.
This is a logical result of feminists denying men equal opportunity for education and well paying careers, resulting in a large minority asking “Where are the educated, well-paid men we’re supposed to marry?”
It is compounded by men who grew up in broken homes seeing no benefit to marriage or afraid of it because an out of wedlock child affects income but doesn’t take half his property, too.


33 posted on 09/05/2017 3:11:44 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Mears

In a genetics/eugenics discussion, they were asking what traits would be selected for or against since we’ve wiped out selective pressure.
I said the pressures that remain are those humans can control. And since we can control fertility and social situations, it is leading to selection FOR women who are pro-child since pro-abortion means they breed at below replacement levels and against feminism, if that is a personality type with any genetic basis. Those that aren’t having children at all will eventually run into biological and social barriers to the ideology.
They reacted as if it were blasphemy, because the words were coming from a woman.


34 posted on 09/05/2017 3:14:08 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: dhs12345

Carley Simons “That’s the Way I Always Heard it Should Be” Great song. Sad. A one percenter in life-Simon and Shuster-who puts down her parents raising her. Then she marries a junkie. Go figure.


35 posted on 09/05/2017 3:14:24 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Lazamataz

C:10, H:7
NO_GO_ZONE for sure


36 posted on 09/05/2017 3:16:25 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: BJ1

This is exactly what the left wants1


37 posted on 09/05/2017 3:17:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Yup. But didn’t she agree to marry him in the song?

For good or bad, traditions helped people find happiness. To a limit of course — wouldn’t want an old lady picking my wife. But there is a lot to be said for the “old ways.”


38 posted on 09/05/2017 3:27:28 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: dhs12345

She’ll haul your behind into “family” court, strip you of your wealth for the next 21 to 24 years, turn your kid against you and make your life a living H-E double toothpicks.


39 posted on 09/05/2017 3:34:52 PM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: dhs12345

Women don’t seem to yearn for the old days. Just the guys in my observation. It’s like women think men were oppressive in the 50s/60s and earlier. I’m too young, maybe some aged Freepers can clue me in on how men treated women back in the 50s.


40 posted on 09/05/2017 3:36:34 PM PDT by BJ1
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