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DEAR MARGO: I am a 38-year-old successful female who is emotionally and financially secure. I have been told that I am very attractive and intimidate men. I would like to get married but am thought to be too independent.

In the past, I just thought that these men were needy. However, I was having a group discussion in mixed company where a man said it seems like women don't need men anymore.

I feel as though women were forced to become independent and support themselves. Now, men seem to be threatened by our success. Do I need to act like I "need" men to find my soulmate? I abhor needy females, yet I do want to share my life with someone with the ultimate goal of getting married and perhaps having children.

What is ironic is that I would walk away from my career for the right man and situation. In many ways, I feel like I would rather be alone than have to acquiesce to a man's ego. -- MS. INDEPENDENT

DEAR MS.: As to your question of whether women need men, some do . . . some don't. I will tell you this: You, me and countless other women have been considered "intimidating," but only to a certain kind of man.

As for putting on the persona of someone who "needs" a man, don't try to act the part of a submissive, subordinate cupcake; it is too hard, and you would become disgusted with yourself.

Believe it or not, there are many men who cannot function with a clinging vine. Trust me, there are men out there whose personalities are complementary to yours. -- Margo, autonomously

1 posted on 07/04/2006 7:39:37 AM PDT by Enterprise
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Dear phony letter writer and phony letter answer babe - you both need to stay out of the gene pool. Thank you - the management.


2 posted on 07/04/2006 7:40:37 AM PDT by Enterprise (Let's not enforce laws that are already on the books, let's just write new laws we won't enforce.)
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Maybe she is a -itch.


3 posted on 07/04/2006 7:41:09 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Taglines for sale or rent. Good "one liners", 50 cents.)
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If she is anything like any of those women on the ABC show last night, she's going to stay single forever.


4 posted on 07/04/2006 7:42:07 AM PDT by Perdogg
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Another "position paper" from DNC Headquarters?


6 posted on 07/04/2006 7:43:12 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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What is ironic is that I would walk away from my career for the right man and situation. In many ways, I feel like I would rather be alone than have to acquiesce to a man's ego.

Doesn't she contradict herself in these lines? She's thirty-eight and wants to get married and have a family? Better get moving on that!

8 posted on 07/04/2006 7:43:42 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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In many ways, I feel like I would rather be alone than have to acquiesce to a man's ego.

And therein lies her problem. Marriage isn't supposed to be a competition between two egos - if she sees it that way it's no wonder men avoid marrying her. I suspect the men in her life know her by a certain 5-letter word.

9 posted on 07/04/2006 7:43:54 AM PDT by NittanyLion
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I am going to get in soooooooooo much trouble for this:

EVERY woman on earth is psychotic, it is just a matter of extent. If you can find one whose psychosis is tolerable then more power to you.

10 posted on 07/04/2006 7:44:24 AM PDT by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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Not for very long.


11 posted on 07/04/2006 7:45:57 AM PDT by cripplecreek (I'm trying to think but nothing happens)
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That's Margo, Maureen Dowd's much younger sister.
12 posted on 07/04/2006 7:46:53 AM PDT by Doctor Raoul (New York Times? Get a rope!)
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Believe it or not, there are many men who cannot function with a clinging vine.

I went through a Venus Flytrap phase in my youth.

14 posted on 07/04/2006 7:47:41 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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I have been told that I am very attractive and intimidate men. I would like to get married but am thought to be too independent.

It's a good guess that anybody who feels compelled to write this tripe in some lame attempt to inflate their own ego is probably a total loser pig.

That said, how about some pics?

17 posted on 07/04/2006 7:49:33 AM PDT by Recovering Hermit (Apparently, most who protest for peace do so at the expense of hygiene.)
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This is a "Needy" woman:

She "Needs" ME!

20 posted on 07/04/2006 7:51:04 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Let them die of thirst in the dark.)
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Any man who's been married once and in the market for a second wife is probably looking for someone who can change a fuse or balance a checkbook. Believe me. Being able to drive a stick shift or plumb a utility sink would just be lagniappe. Being completely indifferent to his sister's wardrobe or his mother's opinions is more than could be hoped for.


21 posted on 07/04/2006 7:51:53 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake But Accurate, Experts Say.')
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...it seems like women don't need men anymore. ...

And men don't need women anymore.

In my opinion, that's why the divorce rate is so high.

In the old days, women needed men to build the house, plow the field, plant the crops, chop firewood, hunt and trap, etc.

And men needed women to cook, make candles, sew clothes, raise the kids.

Basically, this was division of labor. Each one needed the other to survive.

Now, men don't need women to cook, we have Burger King and microwaves. Men don't need women for their clothes, we have Wal-Mart.

Conversely, women don't need men for housing, they can rent apartments or buy their own. They don't need men for food gathering, they can go to the grocery store.

27 posted on 07/04/2006 8:03:26 AM PDT by FReepaholic (Why aren't lawyers ever accused of price gouging?)
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who is emotionally and financially secure. I have been told that I am very attractive and intimidate men

Right there you know she's a nut who needs attention anywhere she can get it.

28 posted on 07/04/2006 8:10:12 AM PDT by fml
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DEAR MARGO:
I am a 38-year-old successful employed female, who - according to my psychoanalyst is emotionally secure. I'm also financially secure - thanks to grannies $2,000,000 inheritance. I have been told by my mother that I am very attractive and but since I wear nothing but leather, spikes and chains, I apparently intimidate normal men. I would like to get married but am thought to be too independent my psychiatrist says I'm a potential serial killer.

DEAR MS. INDEPENDENT:
The Marques De Sade is dead so your prospects of marriage appear dim. And please have someone remove all sharp objects from your house ASAP.


31 posted on 07/04/2006 8:12:31 AM PDT by Condor51 (Better to fight for something than live for nothing - Gen. George S. Patton)
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Dear Ms Independent. I have never read a more bloodless letter. Ice cubes would not melt in your lap. Get a cat. No, get three.


61 posted on 07/04/2006 9:08:00 AM PDT by wizardoz ("Let them eat Hamas." - Luke Skyfreeper)
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Get over yourself...you are not that important...


67 posted on 07/04/2006 9:20:35 AM PDT by dakine
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"Are men attracted to needy women?"


Some undoubtedly are. Those are the ones that need to be thrown back. They are "needy" too. They need to marry someone that is a black hole of need so that they can bitch about it, be martyrs and have an excuse to schtupp their secretaries.
81 posted on 07/04/2006 9:42:26 AM PDT by WolfRunnerWoman (Communism isn't dead, it's just regrouping)
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A man needs a Femichick like a Bicycle needs a Fish!

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters


89 posted on 07/04/2006 10:02:53 AM PDT by bray (Hey Zaqueeri, say hello to Hitler, Stalin and Mohamhead)
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