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Companionship implies an ongoing, long-term, one-on-one relationship. I would think that the incapacitated spouse might find that hurtful. And hiding such a relationship from them would hurt even worse. But if by ‘companionship’ you mean ‘sexual relief’, I should think that most people would find the occasional prostitute or one night stand easier to accept than they would their mate building an intimate relationship with a possible replacement. But whatever arrangement the couple decides on for themselves is THEIR business and no one elses.
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Name : Mara, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 40, City : Atlanta, State : GA, Country : United States, Occupation : data entry, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Middle class,maybe the reason that these people are so ill-informed about minorities is BECAUSE they aren’t exposed to them. It’s natural to be wary of something or someone outside of your experience. They look different, they talk different, they act different…therefore they threaten our values and our society. Protecting the family and the tribe is part of our survival instict. Sometimes that suspicion translates as fear or contempt. The more diverse the nation becomes, the less these views will resonate.
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Name : Mara, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 40, City : Atlanta, State : GA, Country : United States, Occupation : data entry, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Middle class,it’s been well documented in blind studies that assigning gender affects perception. In one particular study, subjects are shown a report. Half are told it was written by a man and the other half that it was written by a woman. Without exception, the report by the female received a lower score for professionalism, quality of work, and subject knowlege than the report written by the man. The thing is…it was the SAME report.
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Name : Mara, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 40, City : Atlanta, State : GA, Country : United States, Occupation : data entry, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Middle class,I thought this forum was for asking all those questions that wouldn’t normally be socially acceptable. Julie asked a question that she’d probably be embarrassed to ask of any black person she knew and it’s unfair for her to be scolded for it.
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Name : Mara, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 40, City : Atlanta, State : GA, Country : United States, Occupation : data entry, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Middle class,it wasn’t always like that. Until abortion was legalized, only the murder of the woman counted. The pro-fetus lobby pushed the through a change in the law so they could use it to ‘illustrate’ the ‘life’ of a fetus. IMO it should never have been changed. A woman can exist without a fetus, but a fetus cannot exist without that one particular woman.
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Name : Mara, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 40, City : Atlanta, State : GA, Country : United States, Occupation : data entry, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Middle class,everything she said plus Target has never been sued for gender discrimination or forcing their employees to work through their legally mandated breaks and lunches, nor done them out of overtime pay they were owed. For these reasons and more, I prefer Costco or Target. Same stuff, better companies.
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Name : Mara, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 40, City : Atlanta, State : GA, Country : United States, Occupation : data entry, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Middle class,I’ve never actually HEARD a joke ribbing a white man. I’ve heard redneck jokes, farmer jokes, hillbilly jokes etc. but never one that explicitly uses race as a punchline. At least not one that was worth telling – How many times have you heard “A white guy, a black guy, and a Mexican walk into a bar…” that ends up with the white guy being the ‘butt’ of the joke?
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Name : Mara, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 40, City : Atlanta, State : GA, Country : United States, Occupation : data entry, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Middle class,we’re affluent enough to pay people to drive the street sweepers around and pick up garbage at the parks. Not to mention the scofflaws doing community service on the side of the highways. Maybe impoverished areas don’t have the resources to spend cleaning up after everyone, like wealthier places do.
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Name : Mara, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 40, City : Atlanta, State : GA, Country : United States, Occupation : data entry, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Middle class,what context are you using for the ‘coward’ charge? I text my 60-something parents every day, I twitter, I.M., and e-mail my friends. I don’t do it because I’m a ‘coward’ who avoids personal interaction, I do it because I seldom have TIME in my day for a twenty-minute conversation about, basically, nothing. Technology enables me to keep up with what the people I care about are doing and lets them know that I’m thinking of them even when I’m juggling three projects and am running ten minutes late for the train!
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Name : Mara, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 40, City : Atlanta, State : GA, Country : United States, Occupation : data entry, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Middle class,“tooth” brushing? LOL! What are you implying? How do you know he doesn’t have more than just the one tooth 😀
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Name : Mara, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 40, City : Atlanta, State : GA, Country : United States, Occupation : data entry, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Middle class,some women have such low self-esteem that they think no man would ever want them, so when one does show interest, they’d rather take the abuse than be alone. Some women think they can change the man, if only they show him how much they love him. And, as sick as it sounds, some women believe that jealousy and abuse prove that the man cares about them.
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Name : Mara, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 40, City : Atlanta, State : GA, Country : United States, Occupation : data entry, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Middle class,horses, white rail fences, and mist-covered emerald pastures? Of course I think the same thing when i hear the words Western Kentucky, Northern Kentucky, Southern Kentucky, and just plain ol’ Kentucky…LOL!
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Name : Mara, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 40, City : Atlanta, State : GA, Country : United States, Occupation : data entry, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Middle class,but I would certainly acknowlege that the chemical component exists, even if I might not subscribe to the idea that it is the ONLY component of love. The religious won’t even give that much respect to science. And I have to dispute your assertion that “It is easy enough for science to prove that spiritual love does not exist.” No, it isn’t. Since, by definition, ‘spiritual love’ is not part of the PHYSICAL world, at this time it cannot be proven nor disproven to exist.
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Name : Mara, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 40, City : Atlanta, State : GA, Country : United States, Occupation : data entry, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Middle class,I dunno about “deserve to die” but deserved or not, every one of us will do so eventually.
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Name : Mara, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 40, City : Atlanta, State : GA, Country : United States, Occupation : data entry, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Middle class,there hasn’t been a negative stereo-type about long hairs since metal went mainstream. The real killer of the “hippie” myth though, was Billy Ray Cyrus’ mullet.
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Name : Mara, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 40, City : Atlanta, State : GA, Country : United States, Occupation : data entry, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Middle class,
