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Get Away, Sluts
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
I 
am tired of sluts. No, not the Tiger-Woods-John-Edwards type of slut. I mean emotional sluts. The kind of people who share their most intimate secrets at the drop of a hat.
Why rail against them, you might ask? They harm no one. They’re entertaining. And they make us feel better about our own lives, right? Wrong. What they do is turn you into a slut, too. Didn’t your mother warn you against hanging around with “fast” girls? Not only would you get a reputation (which, come to think of it, would probably get you a lot of dates); you’d also become loose yourself (and subject to catch something really vile). And she was right. Hanging out with emotional sluts will turn you into one, too, before you know it. (more…)
Tags: emotions, fast girls, john edwards, loose, Relationships, sharing, sluts, Tiger Woods
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Renaissance Man
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
“Lucille said she is going to mold Gary into the kind of man she could really love.”
Did my friend really believe I said that when Gary and I got engaged? She either didn’t really know me – or she’s simply a bitch. That said, I’ve often said it’s a mistake to think you can change someone after you marry them. However. . . sometimes, you can, according to the latest issue of O. It’s called the “Michelangelo Phenomenon” and, apparently, you can sculpt them into. . . the kind of man you can really love! (more…)
Tags: change, laundry, love, Machiavelli, men, Michelangelo
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Use Me, Baby
Friday, March 19th, 2010
Wilhelmina Slater, the cold, calculating editor of the fictional fashion magazine Mode, is “Ugly Betty’s” polar opposite. Or is she? In a recent episode, holier-than-thou Betty resorted to going on a date with someone she detested to get something she needed. Sound familiar?
Admit it; no matter how good and honest and righteous you think you are, isn’t there at least one occasion in your life when you used a man to get something you needed or wanted? (more…)
Tags: bedroom, boardroom, Cleopatra, marriage, money, nun, power, sex, society, Ugly Betty
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Find My Shoes
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
At some point, we all (hopefully) learn to discriminate between the good and the bad. Men, that is. It’s not simply about earning capacity or looks or size (that, my friends, is a post all its own). No; it is about the shoes. And, when I say “shoes,” I am using shoes as a metaphor for “selfish as shit”. (more…)
Tags: men, Relationships, selfish, shoes, women over 40
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I’ve Fallen and I Won’t Get up
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Last night I spent several interesting hours with friends of a friend (who, I think, I can now call my friends). You can’t imagine the subjects we broached (at least, not if you’re male), but one conversation in particular started it all rolling.
“I asked my husband to make our son a pizza bagel,” she said. Not a big deal, right? Put it in the toaster oven, set the timer, keep your eye on it to make sure it doesn’t burn, right? You’d think. But, this husband ended up cross examining his wife, as though he needed the formula for weapons grade plutonium. Why couldn’t she tell him exactly how long it would take? Why didn’t she know? How was he supposed to do this on his own?
Which led me to observe: they can’t figure out how long to cook a pizza bagel, but they’re running the world? (more…)
Tags: bailout, children, husband, men, responsibility, war, wife
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