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It's just the nature of man to be aggressive. Count me in as a woman who thinks that is a good thing. I want my man to be just as aggressive as the one who intends to harm my family and children and home.

Women have an innate affinity for kindness,'' Newman said. It's the goofiness in statements like this that make me want to deprogram them. Women can be just as hurtful, careless, deadly as men. Men haven't' cornered the market on those qualities, just as women haven't cornered the market on kindness and generosity. She is painting with too wide a brush.

``Wouldn't it be beautiful if men, instead of going to into battle with machine guns, carried roses in their hands?'' Okay, maybe it's the insomnia talking here, but statements like this just make me cranky. Stop trying to make men into something they never will or should be. A man can bring peace just as he can bring war. I want a man that can do both.