OnTheCusp's Comments (157)

“From your text: "What makes any child special is the love developed in the act of caring for -- and being cared for by -- someone."
You lost me on that one. Sounds like it makes it all about you....as if "Because I chose to love and care for this child, they are special. If I had not chosen to care, they would not be special." IMHO, what makes a child special is the fact that they EXIST, that there never has been nor ever will be another like them. EVER. Does this mean that only children who get "picked" and cared for are special? Does this mean that children whom no one cares about are somehow not special?
I have faith in you. Surely this was a mis-wording on your part and, hopefully, not actually how you feel.”

“Men and women have always had power, just different types of it. Men have traditionally had the monetary and political power, while women, (a la Betty Draper,) have had the power of emotions and whether or not to give/withhold affection. As women are finally being allowed into the arena of the money and policy making, men are learning that they don't have to put up with the manipulative power plays of the women, in fact, that they can play that card, too. In the case of the metrosexual men, they can play it as well as their mothers did. It is not that women cannot play "hard ball, they've just been relegated to softball all these years by men who did not want to pitch to their own sisters. All women are asking is to be allowed to have biceps without being called lesbian, to have guts and nerve without being called a man-basher, to have an effing brain without being called b*tch. Women still have hearts, and the all valuable "indoor plumbing," all they want is to be allowed to paly the game their brothers do without being told they "throw like a guurl!"”

“Thank you!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!”

“People can't run if they have no money. That's typically a "guy" thing. Ask your sister.”

“"They just kinda pout and go get Starbucks.­"
LMFAO!!!!!”

“Stupak is anti-female. The reaction to it is appropriate and NOT anti-male. Just because women want to run their own lives instead of being dictated to does not signal anti-male sentiments. It signals the end of being under thumbs, that's all. Men are still loved and valued, they just don't get to dictate the complete and total rules any longer. Really. Guys are not losing, they are just being taught where the bar really lies and exactly what a level playing field looks like. After all, their view of these things has been distorted for millenia.”

“Indeed! It is the world's largest organized crime syndicate.”

“Alas, it is tooooooo laaaaaaate.”

“You can't call her "ma'am!" She's a boomer! She'll take your head off for that!”

“So, are you "feeding off the hatred learned in a home where a family unit wasn't present?" That was your phrase, right?”

“Where are these wonder-fathers you speak of? Where?”

“The second shift has NOT been debunked, so get a grip. Women have always performed the vast majority of "unpaid" work, and still do.”

“That was hilarious! Thanks!
Unfortunately, I'll be spending "that day" with my (technical) family for the first time in over two decades. I'm going to remember these tips!”

“How many insurance company employees/­lobbyists?”

“Chickenhawks a la This Week In Texas?”

“When you say that Nora "won" the attention of a younger man, well, that's slipping into skinny jeans right there. Why not say she "attracted" or, better yet, "aroused" the attention?
BTW, Ma'am was a perfectly respectable and courteous thing to call a woman who is obviously no longer a "Miss," until boomer women decided it made them feel old. This is why we've gone back to being "chicks."
Exactly what are people supposed to call a woman older than 20? I'm not being snarky- I want to know.”

“Mr. Miller,
Thanks for your heartfelt and spot-on take of Betty Draper and especially for identifying the real reason behind the outpouring of emotion by so many viewers who are simultaneously intrigued and ticked off by her character. My mother is written all over this character, too. Growing up, I was often confounded by what I perceived as the pure manipulation of people by my mother, who was in turn amazed that her modern daughters refused to "dress like ladies" and furthermore, had "no idea the nuances of how to use one's womanhood to one's advantage.­" (Quote!) She was a master at using the only power allowed her. It truly was a different world then.
And as for us kids going (OUTSIDE, of all places!) to play until dark or dinner, whichever came first, and going out on Halloween without at least two adults within arms length, those times constitute my favorite childhood memories, too. You really got it right about the fact that adults, and children, had lives of their own in that era.
Thanks for the best Betty Draper commentary I've seen so far.”

“But you buckle your seatbelts, no? That, too, is "mandatory­." What are you going to "hack with a machete" because of this "state ordered mandate?"
BTW, stop with this notion of hacking off breasts with machetes. You're going to give the insurance industry ideas!! (I can't believe a woman would talk like that about her own body to begin with.)”

“Yeah, "a government panel" in the back pockets of the insurance industry.”

“Balanced, like on Two and Half Men?”

“They don't want to be men, they just want the public respect and that extra 25% per dollar that goes with it.”

“The girls have always been on their own.”

“You are right about that shaving crap the boys do today.”

“Yay! Someone else gets this!”

“Have fathers be PRESENT and we'll stop father blaming.”