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Ruth34611 Joined Sat 08/02/08 Posts: 32402	Wed 02/08/12 02:34 PM
I don't know if this Pic is the best example but I understand you're point.(Rhett was an @zz to her and Scarlet was a Biotch to him) LOL Yes, I was trying to convey a feeling I was having a hard time putting into words.

Spidercmb Joined Fri 04/27/07 Posts: 13137	Wed 02/08/12 02:35 PM
Thanks for saying that but I don't think there is anyone out there for me. I have accepted that and I am okay with it. I understand how you feel, but it's been my experience that it's never too late to change and it's always too soon to give up hope.

Spidercmb Joined Fri 04/27/07 Posts: 13137	Wed 02/08/12 02:36 PM Edited by Spidercmb on Wed 02/08/12 02:47 PM
I don't know if this Pic is the best example but I understand you're point.(Rhett was an @zz to her and Scarlet was a Biotch to him) LOL Yes, I was trying to convey a feeling I was having a hard time putting into words. A man who will grab you firmly, hold you gently, kiss you passionately and love you fondly, while respecting you completely? EDIT: Added ", hold you gently", I left that out the first time around.

Ruth34611 Joined Sat 08/02/08 Posts: 32402	Wed 02/08/12 02:36 PM
I don't think there are many (any?) positive male role models on TV or in the movies...I'm not even sure about the internet. Now that I think about it, the same is true about women. Andy Griffith. Can't think of one for women. Unfortunately, most kids don't watch re-runs. Kids learn what a father is from "American Dad", "Family Guy" and "The Simpsons". There just aren't many positive role models on TV for men or women. Very true.

Ruth34611 Joined Sat 08/02/08 Posts: 32402	Wed 02/08/12 02:38 PM
I don't know if this Pic is the best example but I understand you're point.(Rhett was an @zz to her and Scarlet was a Biotch to him) LOL Yes, I was trying to convey a feeling I was having a hard time putting into words. A man who will grab you firmly, kiss you passionately and love you fondly, while respecting you completely? Sigh. Yes. You get it.

Leigh2154 Joined Sun 10/02/11 Posts: 16479	Wed 02/08/12 02:39 PM
Even as the lines blur, as male/female roles become more and more interchangeable due to more single parent homes with the majority of those being run by the women, the mothers, I don't think you can pigeonhole loss of masculinity or femininity on the gender of the custodial parent....For all the role modeling a young boy or girl might sacrifice when one or the other parent raises them, they gain it back in spades through exposure to media via internet and TV...also peers provide a powerful influence on children....Today, their role models come from many more sources than that of the person raising them...A single mother raising a boy can insure that he is exposed to the things a father would expose him to...and of course vice versa.....Here's to good parenting skills... I don't think there are many (any?) positive male role models on TV or in the movies...I'm not even sure about the internet. Now that I think about it, the same is true about women. I was not necessarily talking about movies or sitcoms although some are good role models for children, I was talking about the enormous access to information we now have....good information.....Your pigeonholing me....

Torgo70 Joined Fri 06/27/08 Posts: 27387	Wed 02/08/12 02:49 PM
I don't think there are many (any?) positive male role models on TV or in the movies...I'm not even sure about the internet. Now that I think about it, the same is true about women. Andy Griffith. Can't think of one for women. The best TV dad.

Ruth34611 Joined Sat 08/02/08 Posts: 32402	Wed 02/08/12 03:11 PM
I don't think there are many (any?) positive male role models on TV or in the movies...I'm not even sure about the internet. Now that I think about it, the same is true about women. Andy Griffith. Can't think of one for women. The best TV dad. He was a great boyfriend to Opie's teacher too.

Torgo70 Joined Fri 06/27/08 Posts: 27387	Wed 02/08/12 03:12 PM
I don't think there are many (any?) positive male role models on TV or in the movies...I'm not even sure about the internet. Now that I think about it, the same is true about women. Andy Griffith. Can't think of one for women. The best TV dad. He was a great boyfriend to Opie's teacher too. And a damned good lawyer...oh wait.

Ruth34611 Joined Sat 08/02/08 Posts: 32402	Wed 02/08/12 03:12 PM
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bhernandez Joined Sun 03/21/10 Posts: 14901	Wed 02/08/12 04:11 PM
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Ruth34611 Joined Sat 08/02/08 Posts: 32402	Wed 02/08/12 04:19 PM
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krupa Joined Thu 07/03/08 Posts: 18651	Wed 02/08/12 04:57 PM
I got no problem with thinking of some women as equal, same as I think of some men as equal. Not all of them. There are all sortsa women out there......I ain't a big fan of the mousey helpless ones or the drama queens. I gotta admit I give women more advantages than I give men. They can persuade me easier and two of them have stepped up to me physically (druuuuunk) trying to pick a fight. (I would whip the crap out of any man stupid enough to step up to me)...the chicks I just pinned to try not to hurt them.

sweetestgirl11 Joined Fri 09/12/08 Posts: 30087	Wed 02/08/12 06:29 PM
That says a lot about your mother and very little about mothers in general. That is true, I am speaking from personal experience.. exactly the wisdom of one who has never raised children on child rearing? nothing like experience as the best teacher family dynamics are very complicated and not a good place for too many generalizations a person's femininity or masculinity as an adult is partly or little to do with either parent unless there is some extreme circumstance and mothers can do right well to teach their sons to be good men by teaching them to be good people

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chazzc Joined Fri 01/27/12 Posts: 9	Fri 02/10/12 10:01 AM
I want that, or something like that. Too bad that my SO does not agree.

singmesweet Joined Mon 07/28/08 Posts: 26661	Fri 02/10/12 10:14 AM
Why do we always throw the baby out with the bathwater? I am all for gender equality in society and the workplace. And, no, I don't want my husband to own me like a piece of property. But, in changing some things for the better, have we made some things worse? Where did the men go? And, my guess is the men are wondering where all the ladies are? Who doesn't want this and why can't we have it back? What exactly do you think is missing? And why do you think you can't have it? Sure, there are some men out there who aren't very manly, but there are also those who are manly. Just as I'm sure there are women who are more lady like than others. So, I guess I don't really understand what's missing.

Ruth34611 Joined Sat 08/02/08 Posts: 32402	Fri 02/10/12 12:45 PM
What exactly do you think is missing? And why do you think you can't have it? Sure, there are some men out there who aren't very manly, but there are also those who are manly. Just as I'm sure there are women who are more lady like than others. So, I guess I don't really understand what's missing. Nothing. I think it's just me.

Spidercmb Joined Fri 04/27/07 Posts: 13137	Fri 02/10/12 01:05 PM
Have you read the "Little House on the Prairie" books? I think anyone who has read them can tell that men and women have changed, for the worse.