alive and polly -- you know, I sorta "get" how a person could feel defensive in situations like those we're all in, but I don't know that we want to go straight from "younger women tend on average to not be as interested in Hunter S. Thompson as older men, many of whom remember the Bill Murray movie about him from the '80s and many of whom also saw him speak when he was on his college speaking circuit" to "women are stupid."
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro," was one of HST's many little drug-fueled aphorisms, for which there is no "real" interpretation but which I've always taken to mean (since 1979) that when times in your life seem all wacky, you should just embrace that and bring the wacky 100%.
My wife's side of the story, Polly, goes something like this: You weren't there for me when my mother died; I wanted you to go to counseling and you wouldn't; and I earn half-a-million dollars a year and you don't and I'm sorta tired of that. Any other questions?
