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BC_chick I have very fond memories of my dad - he still tops my list of heroes. Dads have so much strength to shoulder for all their children. I recalled the many times my dad took my little hands into his big calloused ones as we head off gleefully to our various journeys and escapades. I am in awe of the strength that was there. Almost superpowers, well, kids are impressionable of their dads. I mean dads indulge their kids in all sorts of glory, and they also know their kids think they are the best. My dad always had a beautiful smile. I think all dads are special even the deadbeat ones.

I don't believe there is a positive role model for the kids. The areas are depressed, and the communities are very poor. The feeling is that communities practice their own cultures, with their own adaptation of what it means to be Canadian. This is because they are unable to integrate into mainstream wealth. With poor communities always come problems, social problems: drinking to ease misery, drugs to make quick money, single parent family that take 3 jobs and neglect the many children, guns because it is a model to follow, seen on TV , and the music culture... hardly room for advancement but mostly some vicious cycles of struggles and despair. I sometimes think the folks have nothing to loose, they become irrational and loose their cool but really it is about giving up their personal battles.

My dad passed away when I was a teen - so my mom sees her kids on both mother's day and father's day. Well, retailers certainly appreciate these gifted special days. I mean they capitalise and seem to lead the direction where their interest lay .. in big business Do you feel appreciated, significant, and relish in your special day. Have your say!

It's women like these that give the rest of us (serious, levelheaded businesswomen) a bad name and make me sick. Ladies, no matter how young you look, once you are over 35 you should NOT be wearing itty bitty miniskirts. And I look damn good in 'em but I'd rather die than wear one to work at my age. Can you imagine walking into a client's dressed like that? LOL I'd get in the door for sure -- but it's unlikely any clients would trust me to manage their marketing for the long term. My advise for women at this time would be whatever makes it easier with out compromising your morals such as: sleeping your way to the top - NEVER DO THIS If you look good, and a short skirt makes it edgy, go for it...also make sure you have contingencies in place, some competencies, and lots of education, in fact twice as much as the darn men.... even then you probably won't make the same amounts of quids but at least you can have some fun

The preferred business attire would have been ideal. For those who willingly participate, the truth is that those short skirts can accomplish many things faster/easier in any environment even if the trade-off is being considered dumb and not taken seriously.

It's a shame, the standard set for women to look a certain way and what constitutes to being successful - gasp, but the "chicks" look hot, a real eye-opener and it sells. It certainly rules out a whole lot of women who can never access those jobs. I mean we keep pushing limits to the dress code for women, they are also now undressing in the naked news.

What! there must be some liberals around! I mean they are always so self-satisfied and plus they support incoherent messages.

Well, here is what comes to mind for a real man. My sense currently, is that folks need to start with some basis of higher accomplishments. Sometimes I feel the distinction of a real man and a woman is the antagonism of being rich in the tough world. That women feel that the riches gain from labor of one man should be procured with the same not their heir. Like the reproduction of power the men practice is disdainful, resenting and immoral. My assessment of this whole women wanting equality is that women want a basis for everyone to start, that everyone is given the same tools e.g. you take a spade into the garden and either start now to dig a bed, later, or be a lazy ass. Symbolically, you can dig as fast as you wish, it also means that you are in good shape, not embarrass yourself, learn from experience to go faster, also you did not defraud yourself from this narcissistic recognition that someone else did this work for you, and you are exhilarated because this is the labor of your own hands so now you can watch over your bed so that you don’t lose sight of the usage of the bed. And when the gods send the rains of sparkles down you are there to be a forerunner of the makings of a rich man. Also, everyone, real man and woman who digs can declare I did it. I of course disagree with this imagery and digging theory. We can take for granted though: 1) the lives we lead are mean; e.g. helpless women, gullible men 2) we also wish the patriarchy be kept as history in books, that we have walked this old tradition before, and it is now history to read about I feel that real men do not need to be wimps, timid, beautiful or perfect to have intercourse with what is truth, wrong, progressive, intelligent and considering women their alliances. Both men and women need to be free first. They need to be more helpful with each other. I mean why do men have to apologize for the number of opportunity that knocks? I mean we all need to recognize and accept that men have unearned privileges instead of lashing out, being mean and punishing as the ugly sisters in Cinderella. And, I can say that some women have truly fit perfectly into the role of ugly. A man needs to be brave. I meant, look, if a man has the head start, then he is the first to experience chance. Give a man credit when he deserves it. He is brave, he is upright, can establish himself and finds a way to excellence, and he cuts though these turmoil issues quickly in a straight line from A to B. He really gives it a go. He makes things to go his way, because he goes first. Now, then, respect him, encourage him. This honorable man, will also permit others to go the same route, have the same benefits, and everything is much easier. Sounds brave to me, and what a real man would do. This, I believe is what it means for women to access the way to excellence and access benefits of equality. Give me some women who have stepped forward and paved the way for both men and women to follow, those are also real women. Currently women want a man to escape his head start, his unearned privileges with nimbleness, branding him evil, pointing the accusing finger and all the while we rush to judge and the sentence “a kept man”. The fools’ men become. It is not a happy scenario. It really dissemble hope for a good man, as women are content to him slip though the fingers. Well as expected, the man falls in place, flat on the ground. And you wonder where have all the good men gone. They are your doormats, to kick around, for you and your guests wipe your feet on and throw out at some inconvenience. If I imply that women have this huge burden of payback and an extravagantly driven aim in their unconscious abuses of men, they wish to put men out of sight, so now it certainly clears the air that women have driven men to the opposite extreme of where we wish men to be. In defence of a man, if a man did not create an abuse, he certainly cannot alter it. I don’t need to be patronizing on the good the feminist movement have accomplish, they did good. But, also I wish to say that the movement fly into ideas, and by their very facts the men they care about now grow unreal and fantastic into a some surreal metaphor. Hello! now men are no good, and they are certainly up to no good. In scholarship I would more likely say that “smart” women flies for refuge in a “world of ideas”. Others take these ideas recruit, replenish and swayed into the pubic eye. Now that I think about it, if there is a fair legitimize outcome, the “others” gladly become your lovers – wow, I have stumbled on my own theory that perhaps this is a literal translation of how women in the feminist movement become dykes, or lesbians. And I cannot apologize if an oops is expected in that discovery. Well, I also wish to say that each man has two pairs of eyes. He can permanently close them and blindly follow the directives of women. Or use his faculties to decide whether being in a feminine culture is crippling his own duties to his vows to be a man. A real man does not need to be told 1) I cannot be bought, I have my life 2) I have pride and wear it proudly 3) I am poor but I won’t accept basics from a man 4) I have my respect and my dignity in tack A real man should feel rich in the presence of women wanting to be helpful to the women, each encouraging the other to strive for their best. Even a best orgasm. A woman currently dismisses a man even though it alters both of their lives and they both live miserable. I don’t need to bring this news to women - that I told you love creeps up into unwanted and hidden places, well, more of the those are coming out of the closet.

In what way? Please, be specific -- I think we all need to "learn" how the "female" are ruining the "men". Well. Look at the list of female requirements of men: 1) You want your men to be sensitive 2) You wish your men to cry though the chick flicks 3) You want men to give, give, give Look at their culture today for men 1) They are wimps 2) Embarrassed around women 3) They are sensitive 4) They cry 5) They are “pussy” beaten into proposal say of marriage, relationships – and they have to sport their money on the women’s glittering tangibles e.g. a huge diamond rock; this connotes public declaration, and professes and equates the amounts of love that is demanded 6) Men are mismatch for women currently. The girls and their power have now overpowered the men. A girl is ambitious, confident, and successful. On the other hand, the men are docile, shy, overweight, shrinking diffident who surrender to being ruin. Did I mention, women and their upheavals – they are irrational when ready to strike out at men. The men are silent; please let this thing go away…they want to be “strong” as defined by the women. Recall, the women culture is to stay into submissive relations, I think the men are experiencing such a relation. There is a terrible backlash of feminism on men. The truth 1) Men are terrified of women. What gives, what don’t give. 2) They are scared of being the sexist and misrepresented even in their careful choice words and actions 3) They constantly second-guess the women to avoid the offence 4) They suppress their masculinity with beauty products, preening and looking good routine 5) They present themselves as Mr Nice Guy for the fear of being rejected by women 6) This equality business has men turned into women. I am a promoter of the career first, the wardrobe, the cars, the number of kids etc next. I now realize it is an agenda that “no man” will get in the way of these accomplishments, yes? The sad thing is that men choose to take a passenger ride, and remain feeble while they facilitate the women’s quest. Well, now she has control, she is an elitist and how do I say emasculated while she uses also her lips, tits, and hips – well it is the truth. The second absolute truth. Women simply don’t like wimps. What woman want a man who cries for what he wants?. Today, the starved men come home and told to feed the cats. They are much more lonely and feel incapacitated. A struggle really, and the tables have truly turned from when unruly girls could be tamed by just "one good fuck." These women are sophisticates, educated, wise and beyond the reach of men. Men, you know all a women really wants in her life is a real man. It's strange, men are on the rise to declaring love for men instead of women I also now wonder whether those bunny clubs, gentlment clubs are on the rise - there might be some strange co-relation in the workings of the women & the ruin men.

Looks like August1991 doesn't have a monopoly on sexist crap. Huh? I think that the female are ruining the men. Look, I think the men look hot in their pink shirts, and pink tie but also I see a next generation of the worst kind of men to surface. They are really shaken up these men. I mean I can say I am also shocked at the number of gays on the rise, because of this gay gene detail. Man, I tell you the outlook for men are poor. Poor in quality. Poor in quantity.

Well, first I can point to the obvious, like you don't have to be a mathematician to add 1+1=3. Well, I can also say that I am also of the belief that it is much more important to set a good moral example than going out of my way to try for smokes, weed, booze. You also get these items at special places and hideouts. Sounds very dangerous and compromising to me already. But for the record, I am not repeating what I heard or read from someplace - some of my siblings are medical doctors. Well, I had these conversations since I was kid, so you understand now that I grilled up to the yin yang with mental notes on what is good. Now, I'd like to practice what I feel is right and also abide by laws that govern this land. I would also like to know I am not the only person left to follow the rules, so I would vote to keep this law in check. I suppose in mentioning "tobacco" you mean cigar or Cuban cigar. Well, I am dead set against cigars also. First, it smells badly, please, for your own sake, you'll go faster than the law requires you to leave this place. I like your choice of words, "booze" indicates substance abuse, links it to drunks and point to issues. Drunks are also treated with a disease. Perhaps we can make a go for treatment of marijuana as a disease, yes. The weed folks also act like drunks. Pollution I agree is probably worst in the city e.g. Toronto vs. countryside - I don't have information how fast one dies because of pollution. But I can say this, in economics if we take the cost of fixing your health because you screwed your brain using weed, and a cost savings of letting you go buy weed yourself without restrictions. The cost of fixing your health now far outweighs those little joints to relax. So, the law stays to ban the product. Same with the pollution...it is probably more cost efficient and better to shift the entire population of Toronto outside of the city, give the city of pollution a name..."Toronto, the financial district of Canada" than repair all your damaged lungs. Different scenarios, different solutions. Runningdog, you indicated you stop using marijuana, did you recognize it does nothing for you? Well, it also does nothing for the economy. This is because black market for weed has long been established and is part of the economy. Whether, we legalize it or not, folks know where and how to get their stuff. Nothing changes.

In 2009 more like 2010 now, 5 of us (then doctors) head for mt. everest - some of us are helpers to the various camps, the lot of the folks want to attempt the summit. folks don't make it back is a reality. I think its the little things you do that makes a difference. You are also more appreciative of life and the things and people around you. It might sound selfish but most of a good is also for yourself, even though you convince yourself its for others. There is lots of a soul giving, the goody two shoes you become - for example I grew my hair for a little girl - stuff like that, you are also on some big routine with time. Everything else is Mac, just enjoy life, it feels good to listen to people and their various stories of life. How do you say, things are quite a bit more important than driving around in a 17 year old swift

I won't hold my breath that women will become rulers of this world, they have to become manipulators of men first. Men are natural selectors to be on top. However, I imagine if women were to gain power they would push their agendas into the forefront, and that we will have a peaceful, compassionate, economically poor society with cooperative living.

Well, if you participate in doing the dishes, cleaning the floors, nodding your head a lot, lots of cuddling and romance, looking after the kids, a break is at the spa, you discover some inaccuracy of every bathroom scale, exercising to look good, on the phone a lot, try for lots more hair, have fun shopping-well, buying "nice" clothes, look at the cover of Cosmo because the girl looks pretty and a reflection of youth - you want to try for the youth, watch girly movies, stay in Friday nights to watch girly movies, cry on cue, cry when you have a hard day at work, remember its matching socks and fresh underwear, think your female spouse should mow the lawn and handiwork, think you are doing enough around the house, ain’t gettin ANY unless you say I Love You, is divorce more often - and finally you check out your reflection in any shiny surface: mirrors, spoons, store windows, Howie Mandel's head. I think you are participating in a feminine culture

It's an optimistic site, I mean to know that I will last and last and last is something i simply do as i please everyday

It seems to me a huge stretch to assign the equivlent work of a stay-at-home mom to that of psychologist among other positions. In addition, is not the value of one's work worth exactly what someone would be willing to pay? Would anyone pay $134,121 to a stay-at-home mom? Reality check sisters!! I think we better send these folks off to earn some real wages. My thinking is that they would not make greater that 25K per year or $12/hour

Please list all the folks that have died as a result of ingesting this drug. And then compare your 0 list to the deaths directly relating to smoking and drinking alchohol. My proof should be conclusive in the amounts of efforts put in to stall an overturned on a ban on marijuana, and to legalize it and the amounts of government funds put into credibility to allow those like myself to believe marijuana is not good for you, while it still remains illegal. The conclusion I have, that there is no currently accepted medical use for marijuana except for those research projects - the one mentioned in the beginning of this discussion, medical marijuana availability to seriously ill patients to ease pains, probably doing good for memory loss, distorted perception, forget things, don't need to think about much and some occasional teaser for you regular whiners with your crying pains that you cannot bear. I can only concede up to this point folks, that almost everyone is going to get hurt however it may, and eventually everyone dies. It’s up to you to reduce your own risk, and look after your health - you wish to stick around a bit no?. Why can't you generate your own high by climbing flights of stairs everyday, instead of opting for an easy draw on pot? Even the Olympics support the ban on marijuana

Drea? Poly? Wendy? hahaha Stirring up some troubles are you. I sincerely hope you do know the folks or must have been in some discussion with them to print their handle names without contributing to the discussion on hand. Cheers

A drug is a drug is a drug. Look at the side effects of your marijuna: Memory loss Distorted perception Trouble with thinking and problem solving Loss of motor skills Decrease in muscle strength Increased heart rate Anxiety White blood cells decrease, hence immune systems are susceptible to infection http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/evidence99/ma...a/Health_1.html http://www.growing-marijuana-seeds.com/leg...-marijuana.html http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/ongoing/marijuana.html http://www.usask.ca/education/ideas/tplan/...es/legmarij.htm http://www.swlearning.com/economics/policy.../marijuana.html don't look for me in your campaigns to make it legal

Nope I never saw the stuff, why? don't know . Well, I also never tried a cigar yet, so it never enters into my world to feed my brain with tar, or hydroponic pot - and if you didn't keep repeating you had good memory I could almost understand unless there is some bona fide research done that can prove this is a good thing for you, there is no intense social pressure to change my opinion in the least

a man comes armed into your home without an intent to shoot is more protected by the law than your inpulse to shoot him. Anyway my thoughts are the female collusion for change is filled with conventional ways to keep old structures in place which makes a lot of things confusing, for both men and women. Look, men accepted and shoulder the blame very quickly of the inequality and injustices created between the men and women. I mean now we have effeminate leadings. Like it is not so terrible for a men who are mocked and mar to merely look in the mirror, and who also sees medusa and did not turned to stone. We actually encourage compassion. I posit that also men have the means to change in an instant. Men, still do not acknowledge inherent gifts that they bring to this world. Look, women started up being a feminist many years ago and is still vouching for equal this, that. I wonder how quickly can a man denounce a feminine culture, and replace it with the likes of patriarchy. I am still of the believe that men have the power to damage and heal, to play and win, to continue with old ways, to dismantle structures and practices. In the end whatever they do simply legitimize their practices as normal. For now it is an culture some are not happy with.

what is good grief is that men are indulging in a cult of weakness. the women have change the way men operate, think and look at themselves - indulge in weakness is actually seen as strengh. cry if you may, show emotions, i love you for this, stay safe. k - got to go but will respond here later

I'll have to agree that the culture is becoming more "effeminate" First, women have redefined their priorities, in work, education and the home. I have to agree though that nothing has change for the women in terms of wanting to dress smart, to look and be beautiful - however it happens. I mean there is more awareness now that we can appreciate ourselves for a price. Look, there is technology to modified the nose, called nose job, boob job, joe job, blow... There is a co-relation of being pretty and the changing or shifting the priorities. Women still have to appeal to men whether it is on their way in an upward mobility climb, sharing the house chores, jumping into bed etc. Well, you can quote me as saying that the "prettier" the female, while being "female" it is easier to get things done by the males. Perhaps this is the manipulation bit of the beauty. Well, maybe not quite what they desire to do, but a likely motivation is obfuscation. Look, women would subscribe to the beauty and wear it in all its mighty and glorious ways. They can subscribe to the power of beauty - perhaps they are the smart ones also. The males noticing a burden of trivial chores shifting to them, faces the demand of a successful woman making headway to the top. The man is anxious and uneasy about their roles, but is somehow compelled and mesmerize with their beauties. It would be abnormal not to imitate the success of women - so our men simply set-off to purchase perfumes, take in a spa, manicure etc., metro sexual is the word And it seems all right for the males to get in touch with the "female" traits. From a female perspective they look very pleasing to the eye. So, why the males did not react in the V Tech shooting? Look, we try our darnest to negotiate a war and settle it verbally (send Carter, and Clinton). Perhaps this negotiation logic played a role. The verbal is feminine traits (women communicate verbally best). Anyway, the bigger point I wanted to make is that there is no need for "men" to be "MEN" like put on an armor and head off to war, to hunt, and to struggle, be manly and look after women. Things are not rough and tumble when men had to be "men". Negotiate and be nice, feel something. Women are still irrational. Well, since we are creating the feminine culture, the more latitude you give the female the more expressive she becomes and the more capricious her nature will be. My feeling is if men are walking around like these fickle minded folks they imitate, that they are bound to become insecure. Which brings me on how to define men now. They are quiet in their ways all the while wishing to be social, follow the female. The problem is that the male in all its glory and intent do NOT induce neurosis in the female as yet .... to make them susceptible to manipulation (for example change an entire culture to be a "man" instead of carrying on with the ideal of being beautiful). The women can always deny her intent towards the males, and they still follow her around, mate with her and love her. I mean the same is not true of males, if they lie, they are held accountable. I am yet to decide how males can reconcile iniquities, which is why the folks did nothing to protect themselves and others against one lone-armed gunman. Anyway, the other point I wanted to make that is not so plain as an effeminate culture --- I observed the humongous generosity of giving. This is a very primitive form of female likeness. Look, a woman is kicked out of the house, now expects gift and medicine, the women have to survive. The transference coincidently was from the male hard earned labor, as in the male wealth to the female to make them fell better. There is much of this happening, parallel, as in the war in Iraq. Government are encouraged to large-scale operation to free the people of Iraq to make it a better place, is a policy feminine in nature. Yes? the big sister theory. Well that’s it for now

Only those with power: economic, social, political power can discriminate It is absurd to think that blacks and arabs can discriminate as a group, they face the blunts of racism, and isolation easily - they are powerless and basically don't do very well in school, jobs or their lives in general

The article says it is bad for lung. There is a reason why marijuana is illegal - it is not good for you. I never had the opportunity to see the stuff much less smoke it, but maybe you can shed some light on the short-term memory loss you would have experienced. Contrary to thinking that marijuana acts as the perfect aphrodisiacs for your encounters, the only thing that gets screwed is your own head. There are numerous studies out to show that marijuana reduces testosterone and folks can become prone to erectile dysfunction. a waste don't you think