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ForrestGump Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-16-06 01:24 PM
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2. Oops. Might I suggest that you copy "many" from your
second paragraph and paste it in place of "most" in your subject line? You're still going to get some contention, but I'd say it's more accurate and perhaps more what you're really saying here.

Certainly here in Las Vegas what you're saying resonates very, very strongly -- this place was built on and is still today obsessed with fast money and many of the women here allegedly are opportunistic predators (I know men often claim such, in general, but in Vegas they may actually have more of a point...and, to be fair, in this town many of the men are predators of another sort). And in my perusals of various personal ads -- not shopping (at least not yet), just idly curious as to who exactly is out there -- I've certainly seen a lot of stuff that reinforces certain 'traditional' gender-role expectations regarding breadwinning (and in this I do not count the many ads that blatantly ask for sugardaddies).

Overall, though, with the women that I really know on a personal level -- even though my wife utterly destroyed me, financially -- I can't say I support that thesis. Maybe it's that I am attracted to (and here I mean not just sexual/romantic attraction) women who aren't likely to be that way, or maybe it's just that if there's to some degree a statistically significant tendency for women to want some fiscal sugar from their 'daddy' it's more than offset by the behavior and attitudes of the misogynistic bastards who seem to comprise a good deal of the male population and who only want babes with physical perfection far, far beyond their own.
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