I hear you and have heard what others have said in the past. I have tried to be more diplomatic in my responses. And I felt that I has tolerating MrsNOP’s digging for much longer than I cared. I had no intention of trying to defend a leaky, partially valid, simplistic theory. I stated this several times. And yet she insisted on trying to expose one “fallacy” after the other. WTF!? So at some point I got fed up. That’s me.
Perhaps she should take a look at why she is so insistent one everyone posting only pre-researched, proof tested thoughts. This is an open discussion board. Who has time for that? On page 8 of this thread I told her the following:
I do not know what your point is here. The things you are arguing over have little to nothing to do with my main thesis. If you don’t agree with me then fine. Say so and go start your own thread. Your persistent picking is starting to feel a lot like harassment to me and I don’t like it one bit. You do not own this board. It is a public forum and I can state my thoughts as I wish. Start your own thread with your own points of view but quit harassing me.
And yet she comes back pointing out some inconsistency in my argument as it applies to beach sex. I was not trying to be “fair” in my theme toward women. Never said that. This topic was meant to be one-sided, from a man’s point of view. If women saw the logic in what men want, there would not even have been a book written on this matter. So it goes without saying many women will disagree with Schlessinger. So what? There’s plenty of men bashing counselors out there whom I disagree with. They cater to the female audience. Schlessinger caters to the male audience, of which I am a part. MrsNOP is obviously in the female audience. So maybe she needs to learn to just leave it at that.
Everyone one would like to make this argument out as all my fault. I will accept my part, but my part only. MrsNOP, and Corri in her follow-up post, imply that they have the right to push as hard as they want, and until you tell them to stop, they should feel no reason to back-off.
As an analogy, remember the presidential election when Bush I was running? Dan Rather interviewed him on TV and was pushing hard on Iran Contra or something. I saw the interview and Rather was not impolite or discourteous. But he was persistent, would not let the topic drop even though Bush tried to move past it several times. The press practically hung Rather, saying he was disrespectful, which I believe he was. He knew full well he was pushing too hard and that Bush was agitated. But Rather had and agenda and was trying to expose something, which he never did.
I felt the same way on the later parts of this thread. May I, like Bush, should stand up and say stop it, you are pushing too hard and it is getting offensive to me. But I though I said that. And I also think people should be courteous enough to know when THEY are pushing too much.
