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Old 09-16-2016, 07:40 AM
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This is interesting and a little annoying.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...graves/277931/
Yet it took me a whole year to get them to admit that my Florence in effect gave her life for her country, but they won't even pay for her urn.
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Old 09-16-2016, 12:00 PM
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http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...sident/497564/

Read it and weep fellas.
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When have you heard anyone here object to Clinton on the basis of gender?
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Old 09-16-2016, 12:36 PM
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When have you heard anyone here object to Clinton on the basis of gender?
The gender stuff, even if unrecognized and denied, can be why a person objects too much.
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Old 09-16-2016, 12:42 PM
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The gender stuff, even if unrecognized and denied, can be why a person objects too much.
I suppose it's possible that my strong aversion to the idea of a Trump presidency is he fact that he's a man.
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Old 09-16-2016, 02:02 PM
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When have you heard anyone here object to Clinton on the basis of gender?
John, John surely you are not that naive. Of course no one will say it, some psychologists call it involuntary misogyny, as long as she stays at home ,has the meals on time and looks after the kids it is fine. but let her get ambitious and it hits the proverbial fan.
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Old 09-16-2016, 02:04 PM
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I suppose it's possible that my strong aversion to the idea of a Trump presidency is he fact that he's a man.
You are being generous in calling him a man.

Very, very generous.
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Just thought I would hold up the mirror Bob.
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John, John surely you are not that naive. Of course no one will say it, some psychologists call it involuntary misogyny, as long as she stays at home ,has the meals on time and looks after the kids it is fine. but let her get ambitious and it hits the proverbial fan.
In other words if a male doesn't like the thought of Hillary Clinton as President he is, Ipso facto, a misogynist. Got it.
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