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Why some single women just need to shut up
www.cnn.com ^ | 4/28/09 | Wendy Atterberry

Posted on 05/10/2009 9:05:03 PM PDT by chasio649

In a recent column on the Huffington Post, "Why I'm Single," writer Lea Lane lists all the reasons that she's still single. Why? So she can send the URL to all the nosy, possibly well-meaning busy-bodies who keep asking her why she isn't in a relationship.

Lane presents a persuasive case; it almost made me wish for the days I, too, had the whole bed to myself. She's one of what I'll call the "Happies," women who are perfectly content with their single status.

They don't want for a companion; they love their solitude and have enough friends, hobbies, and passions to keep themselves busy.

Although, most Happies, like Lane, are "open to options, and do understand the beauty and wonder -- and blessing -- of a good relationship," they neither actively seek one nor passively hope and pray one comes their way. The Happies say they don't need a relationship to be content, and, by God, they mean it.

On the other side of the single lady spectrum, you've got the "Crappies." They're the single ladies with really crappy attitudes. Take, for example, Jezebel's Megan Carpentier, who responded to Lane's column with a list of her own, a list that not only doesn't make me a little nostalgic for my single days, it makes me sort of, well, sad -- for her.

I'm sad for the Crappies, because, as much as they say

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1 posted on 05/10/2009 9:05:03 PM PDT by chasio649
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To: JoJo Gunn

Why some single women just need to shut up


2 posted on 05/10/2009 9:05:58 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoJo Gunn

3 posted on 05/10/2009 9:08:06 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: chasio649

Duped out of motherhood

by KATE MULVEY, Daily Mail

Last updated at 10:22 24 February 2006

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-378163/Duped-motherhood.html


4 posted on 05/10/2009 9:09:51 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: chasio649
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5 posted on 05/10/2009 9:10:03 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: JoeProBono

Is that “Happies” or “Harpies”?


6 posted on 05/10/2009 9:10:27 PM PDT by elk ((A Member of the Silent 58)TM)
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To: elk

Probably “Fatties”.


7 posted on 05/10/2009 9:12:09 PM PDT by SIDENET (Hubba Hubba...)
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To: JoeProBono

I had a neighbor once who when asked why she wasn’t married answered that she had had so many husbands why in the world would she want one of her own.


8 posted on 05/10/2009 9:13:36 PM PDT by lonestar (Obama is turning Bush's "mess" into a catastrophe.)
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To: chasio649

They won’t be very happy when they are all alone on their deathbed, and wonder why there’s nobody there.


9 posted on 05/10/2009 9:13:38 PM PDT by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: elk

“Haggies” would be more like it.


10 posted on 05/10/2009 9:14:04 PM PDT by max americana
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To: dfwgator
You know, it's never that black and white. we all know married people who are so miserable they'd be better off alone. The bottom line is that relationships take a lot of work and most people don't realize that going in and pick the wrong person for all the wrong reasons.

Some people should stay single.

11 posted on 05/10/2009 9:15:50 PM PDT by Hildy (A man searching for God is like a fish searching for water....)
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To: Hildy

If you are happy being single...then people should stay that way...i agree..relationships are hard work but worth it imo...i didn’t like being single...i like to share.


12 posted on 05/10/2009 9:18:27 PM PDT by chasio649
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To: chasio649

1. What is the thinnest book in the world?

What Men Know About Women.

2. How many men does it take to screw in a light bulb?

One . . . men will screw anything.

3. How does a man take a bubble bath?

He eats beans for dinner.

4. What is a man’s idea of foreplay?

A half hour of begging.

5. How can you tell if a man is sexually excited?

He’s breathing.

6. What is the difference between men and government bonds?

Bonds mature.

7. What do men and beer bottles have in common?

They are both empty from the the neck up.

8. How can you tell if a man is happy?

Who cares?

9. How many men does it take to change a roll of toilet paper?

No one knows . . . It’s never been done.

10. How are men and parking spaces alike?

The good ones are already taken and the ones left are handicapped.

11. What is a man’s idea of helping you with housework?

Lifting his legs so you can vacuum.

12. What is the difference between men and E.T.?

E.T. called home.

13. What does a man consider a seven course meal?

A hot dog and a six-pack of beer.

14. How do you save a man from drowning?

Take your foot off his head.

15. How is a man like linoleum?

If you lay him right the first time, you can walk all over him for the next twenty years.


13 posted on 05/10/2009 9:19:01 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: chasio649
Why some single women just need to shut up

There, fixed.

14 posted on 05/10/2009 9:20:16 PM PDT by Old Sarge (There is no god)
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To: Old Sarge
Why some single women just need to shut up and stop voting.

Now you're in real trouble;)
15 posted on 05/10/2009 9:23:31 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Yonder stands your orphan with his gun)
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To: dfwgator
Memo to women: Thinking gives you wrinkles.


16 posted on 05/10/2009 9:24:16 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Old Sarge

hey, somebody had to do it ;-)


17 posted on 05/10/2009 9:26:40 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Old Sarge
Why, some single women just need to shut up!

I added a comma and an exclamation point.

It flows better now.

18 posted on 05/10/2009 9:27:13 PM PDT by SIDENET (Hubba Hubba...)
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To: chasio649

I’m a single male, I like women, and most certainly would not turn any decent lady away if she were to show interest in me.

I most certainly can relate to any straight female that would rather be alone. It all comes down to either being lonley or being in a bad relationship.

That’s the kind of person I’d like to know, these ladies need to know that there are plenty of guys like me that are much the same way, don’t go for games, stupidity, bad attitudes, Drug addiction, irreconcilable personal problems. etc..

Hey, more power to the cautious. First: lunch, then take it from there.


19 posted on 05/10/2009 9:27:44 PM PDT by ChetNavVet (Build It, and they won't come!)
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To: chasio649

the ironic thing is that, with the feminization of our society, men will become less desirable people for which you want to live your life. What you’re seeing in society, you’ve seen in liberal politics for decades. No wonder most lib chicks eventually become lesbians.


20 posted on 05/10/2009 9:31:11 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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