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Why Jerks Exist
Dr. Laura ^ | August 28, 2009 | letter to editor to Dr. Laura

Posted on 08/29/2009 6:50:30 PM PDT by grundle

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To: OrangeHoof
I think she's smarter than that but this teacher/letter-writer may not be.

I think that everyone is, this was simply about adjusting an imbalance that has cropped up in the last couple of generations.

41 posted on 08/29/2009 9:07:05 PM PDT by ansel12 (Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
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To: OrangeHoof
Of course, there are ways to be fun and exciting to women without being a jerk. However, the key thing really is not to become anyone's doormat. Expect and demand reciprocity and respect.

Another thing which relates to this dynamic is that many males are nowadays afraid to express their sexuality to women in a healthy way. Anything can be made into harassment these days. Yet, like you say, women expect their sexual partners to be 'bad'.

42 posted on 08/29/2009 9:09:11 PM PDT by Aikonaa
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To: grundle
But there's always the camoflaged jerk. The one who is the perfect gentleman until something doesn't go quite right and his true personality shines through.

I've only come along 1 jerk during my dating days and he was a real loser, for sure. He was ok at first and then my parents told me to end the friendship because I was becoming to distracted. (I was in high school.) I wasn't happy but reluctantly broke it off. The following 18 months was hell involving stalking, slashed tires, vandalism, harassing phone calls, threat with a switchblade....

Some people are nice until you tell them, "no."

43 posted on 08/29/2009 9:37:15 PM PDT by TNdandelion (I'd rather have FedEx run my healthcare than USPS.)
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To: Right Wing Assault
New to me - -

SAVING IT!

44 posted on 08/29/2009 9:37:27 PM PDT by skeptoid
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To: GiovannaNicoletta
I taught my daughter what my grandmother taught me

Never leave the house without a large hat pin?

45 posted on 08/29/2009 10:05:28 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The Great Obamanation of Desolation, sitting in the Oval Office, where he ought not...)
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To: jessduntno
I have to chuckle sometimes, before the Feminist craze of the 60's that "freed" women from men, there were very few jerks...The feminazi route freed men to act as they pleased and women to say "yes" to jerks and if there was a problem, well, we had abortions...

Women are the fools that let jerks abound...We always had the power, but the younger generation didn't know that...Men were gentlemen for a reason, if they weren't the gals didn't give them the time of day..

I hate to say it but females are the problem...and the mess will continue until they wake up... Goat Granny (female that had a great husband)

If I were a guy, with some of todays females, I think I would become a hermit. Guys get screwed all around, especially in the court system with divorce. Scripture says better to live in the corner of an attic than with a troublesome woman...(I think that is in proverbs.)

46 posted on 08/29/2009 10:24:47 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: OrangeHoof

it’s never going to happen because women don’t want it to happen. Who wants a bunch of boring, polite, civil men? Certainly not most women in the 15-35 age group.
***Nice guys finish last.


47 posted on 08/29/2009 11:23:20 PM PDT by Kevmo (So America gets what America deserves - the destruction of its Constitution. ~Leo Donofrio, 6/1/09)
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To: grundle

“Now back to saving the world, one teenager at a time.”

The guy’s point might be well taken, but that’s a pretty self-aggrandizing sign off. I wonder if this letter is real.


48 posted on 08/30/2009 2:59:42 AM PDT by jocon307 ( We're dealing with COMMUNISTS here, folks!)
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To: ApplegateRanch

LOL!!!


49 posted on 08/30/2009 4:36:17 AM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta
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To: big'ol_freeper

Exactly.


50 posted on 09/06/2009 10:42:28 PM PDT by TheFourthMagi
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To: Talisker

True.


51 posted on 09/06/2009 10:42:46 PM PDT by TheFourthMagi
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To: TheFourthMagi

Women continually cause Dhimmicrats to get elected by a majority voting for them, and male majorities consistently vote for conservatives.

Remind me again who the jerks are?


52 posted on 09/07/2009 7:39:56 AM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("Anyone pushing Romney must love socialism...Piss on Romney and his enablers!!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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