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Are Men Stupid?
CNN ^ | Mon April 23, 2012 | Frida Ghitis

Posted on 04/29/2012 6:18:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: Vince Ferrer

Part of a man’s energy and drive to succeed and gain wealth and power (whether through government or privately) comes from the same thing that powers his sex drive: testosterone.


81 posted on 04/29/2012 10:48:59 PM PDT by Erasmus (BHO: New supreme leader of the homey rollin' empire.)
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To: dfwgator

Once in a lecture by Bart Kosko, the Fuzzy Logic guru, he mentioned that frequency-hopping spread spectrum communications had been co-invented by a movie actress. He challenged the audience to name her.

Your Obedient Servant shot his hand up and exclaimed, “Headly Lamarr!”


82 posted on 04/29/2012 10:58:30 PM PDT by Erasmus (BHO: New supreme leader of the homey rollin' empire.)
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To: nickcarraway

Stupid is as stupid does.


83 posted on 04/30/2012 1:51:14 AM PDT by Semper Mark (Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?)
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To: nickcarraway

Some are, yes. Just as some women are


84 posted on 04/30/2012 2:10:08 AM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Disagree.

I think men are stupid when they are comfortable and secure.
Men are brilliant when they are challenged or in danger.

There are exceptions, but you know what I mean.


85 posted on 04/30/2012 4:02:14 AM PDT by djf (Life's a play, we're actors not authors, and nobody even cared to give us the script!)
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To: OldPossum

The “great motivator” is the key to civilization. Women don’t get it.


86 posted on 04/30/2012 5:12:12 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Isabel C.
In other words, men are stupid.

In other words low libido women lead dull boring lives. They will never know the thrill of the hunt.

87 posted on 04/30/2012 5:15:03 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: nickcarraway

Weren’t women involved as well? Or are these just homosexual encounters?


88 posted on 04/30/2012 5:49:15 AM PDT by BO Stinkss
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To: central_va

I understand your point. But it doesn’t quite explain why men, who are capable of rational thought, are willing to ruin their lives just to spread their “seed” around.


89 posted on 04/30/2012 6:21:11 AM PDT by OldPossum
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To: nickcarraway

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? - Jeremiah 17:9


90 posted on 04/30/2012 6:30:44 AM PDT by RoadTest (There is one god, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.)
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To: OldPossum
I understand your point. But it doesn’t quite explain why men, who are capable of rational thought, are willing to ruin their lives just to spread their “seed” around.

To some rich and powerful men being celibate and not "getting any" would make him feel like he was a failure. To them what was the point in amassing power?

The problem I have with this is the pretense of the wife and perfect family et al. Men that want the playboy lifestyle should ditch the wife, pay the money and go play. Sex is what keeps some (most) men from becoming really morose and melancholic. Even in a long term relationship a boredom factor can cause psychological issues. A women wouldn't understand. That is why there is a war between the sexes....

91 posted on 04/30/2012 6:32:15 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: nickcarraway

Women are stupid. I blame them for moderates and democrats.


92 posted on 04/30/2012 7:11:02 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: central_va

To me, the premise makes no sense. My life has been successful from my point of view but it never encompassed any ambition to grow wealthy and powerful just so I could have sexual conquests. I just do not understand those men (and maybe a few women). Maybe my libido differs from that of other men.

This sentence from your post really got my attention: “Sex is what keeps some (most) men from becoming really morose and melancholic.” As suggested above, sex has never played that big a role in my life (especially now at age 71), so I will never understand that statement. Those men live in a different world than the one I inhabit.

And I can never see ruining my life just to have sex with someone that appeals to me. That is my definition of stupid.

I agree, though, that these vast differences, especially in degrees of libido, account for the war between the sexes.


93 posted on 04/30/2012 7:12:01 AM PDT by OldPossum
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To: Revolting cat!

Along time ago in another lifetime, when I was just a young Airman, an old Staff Sergeant gave me some very good advice. He said, “Every time a man thinks with the head of his **** all it does is get him into trouble.” Never seen that advice go wrong.


94 posted on 04/30/2012 8:21:20 AM PDT by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: Keith in Iowa
The male human animal has not evolved beyond that instinctive drive to respond to attractive females that make themselves available.

Or unavailable, as the case may be.

95 posted on 04/30/2012 9:49:37 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
No real men are not stupid.

I think you left out a comma after NO, which is really important. Otherwise you just said that we are stupid.

(Actually, it's just an act. We can't figure out the washing machine or a sewing machine, because we are stupid. I am just glad you women are here, otherwise we'd be naked.)

96 posted on 04/30/2012 9:56:46 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: central_va; Vince Ferrer
Women, natural socialists eschew risk taking and could never understand men risking everything for sex

The never mentioned fact is that if women didn't exist, there would be no wars.

97 posted on 04/30/2012 9:59:29 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: avenir; bmwcyle
After Adam sinned, THEN the consequences of shame and distortion of the sex drive.

Sure... blame it all on the white guy.

98 posted on 04/30/2012 10:04:26 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Revolting cat!
You put the lime in the coconuts, shake it all up.
99 posted on 04/30/2012 10:08:29 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Vince Ferrer
And is why so many feminists are bitter.
100 posted on 04/30/2012 12:23:54 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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