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2006-11-03 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-03 12:57|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The last material I read on the subject indicated the Redlands were out producing the Bluelands by a respectable level.

When boys leave secondary school, they discover that society privileges girls in tertiary schools and in the workplace.

If youre talking soft humanities degree programs and their allied employment, like jobs not defined in dance, art, [insert minority title] studies, probably. However, if youre talking engineering, architecture, chemistry, physics, etc, you know the hard disciplines that dominated real colleges and university programs fifty years ago, Id suspect the male population is seriously represented. Universities may want balance, but they want to keep their programs alive too. If the interest isnt there neither will be the tuition and fee paying students.

Women say they look for partners who are "sweet and sensitive."

I understand firemen made a great comeback in popularity after 9/11. Sean Penn didnt look that heroic down there in New Orleans girls. When the chips are down, it quickly becomes a matter of natural selection. Four thousand years of human history cant be all wrong. A fashion statement isnt going to get your buns out of the fire.

Posted by Procopius2K 2006-11-03 14:50|| 2006-11-03 14:50|| Front Page Top

#2 A fashion statement isnt going to get your buns out of the fire.

The Manolo would disagree with this statement.

Posted by Manolo 2006-11-03 15:08|| 2006-11-03 15:08|| Front Page Top

#3 There's a ton of, er, fellows like the one described all over Montgomery County, MD. Weird.

(Estrogen in the water: HRT byproduct or monstrous plot to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids? You decide.)

Posted by eLarson 2006-11-03 15:41|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2006-11-03 15:41|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm with you, eLarson. Spot-on.
/Gen Ripper

Posted by .com 2006-11-03 15:45|| 2006-11-03 15:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Women say they look for partners who are "sweet and sensitive."

My wife says: "If I wanted sweet and sensitive, I'd become a lesbian. Come over here and put the wood to me!"

Maybe woman that like effette men are really looking for lesbian with a functioning penis.

Reminds me of a joke:

Little Girl: "Mommy, what's a penis?"
Mommy: "Well honey, it's like a cock, only smaller!"

Try the veal, I'm here all week!

Posted by Mick Dundee 2006-11-03 15:55|| 2006-11-03 15:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Diet-related. Less red meat in the diet, less testosterone produced.

Posted by Snolet Ulinesh2365 2006-11-03 16:24|| 2006-11-03 16:24|| Front Page Top

#7 newest word as coined by the Seattle elite: Metronatural; supposed to be a play on Mertosexual (another gag me with a spoon kind of word)and some sort of Paul Bunyan as interpreted by REI. All you sensitive, back shavers; come out and say it: I'm Pussywhipped

Posted by USN, ret. 2006-11-03 16:44|| 2006-11-03 16:44|| Front Page Top

#8 the hard disciplines that dominated real colleges and university programs fifty years ago, Id suspect the male population is seriously represented.

Yes. Whatsisname who used to be president of Harvard was drummed out for addressing just that isssue. Back in the day, I was advised that if I really wanted to apply my interest in maths to engineering, Chem E. was the most female friendly. I wasn't interested enough to learn the chemistry. Nowadays there are lots of very able women engineers, but that doesn't change the fact that the hard sciences are still tilted away from the distaff side.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-11-03 17:08|| 2006-11-03 17:08|| Front Page Top

#9 re. moose5089 comment on sperm numbers - one possible explanation for the reduction in concentration might be that the boys are getting laid a lot more often since 1940, and the sperm factories just can't keep up with the inventory shipping rate. Not saying it's the whole story, but I am darned sure my father's generation got a lot less sex and a lot later in life than mine or my kids'.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-11-03 18:04|| 2006-11-03 18:04|| Front Page Top

#10 I suspect biologically active contaminants in the food supply contribute to this as well as to insulin-resistance / Type II diabetes. Or maybe those researchers are just testing too often...

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-11-03 18:09|| 2006-11-03 18:09|| Front Page Top

#11 SU got it. Inadequate protein in the diet. The bacon and eggs for breakfast crowd doesn't have any problems with testosterone production.

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2006-11-03 20:25|| 2006-11-03 20:25|| Front Page Top

#12 Thank God I'm not around enough "regular" civilian populations to be sickened by what this lady is reporting. BTW - we in the mil seem to have no problem w/our combat swimmers.

Posted by Broadhead6 2006-11-03 21:30|| 2006-11-03 21:30|| Front Page Top

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