[krb]

...in the Israeli Army for three years...He didn't offer me a penny for the taxi.

hmmmm...< scratches chin >

[paulsy]

"How bothered should I have been?"

I think you over reacted; and I'm glad I have only one date these days (my awesome wife). Okay... how about...communicating! Let the guy know you felt a little used, ask if he wouldn't mind going out again so that he can buy so you can dine and dash. See if he reacts by communicating back with you. Understand each others fears and needs. Blather blah. Hopefully it works out.

You sound pleasant enough but I think I'd be afraid to date someone like you. In fact, I never would have "dated" my wife because I would have flunked. We were friends first, without all that courting nonesense... why not forget dating/interviewing boys? Find some friends (male and female) in the "right" sorts of places, and I promise sparks will fly when the time is right.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

No, he assured me, adding that he thought Ariel Sharon was an ass. I liked him even more.

It's always just so darned tragic, whenever an anti-Semite and a self-loathing Jew get together... and yet, against all odds, they still can't hit it off.

[Chewbacca]

She should make a movie: "How to lose a man in one date".

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Later I tossed and turned in bed for hours, not knowing if I was being unreasonable. Yes, he'd had bad manners, but I knew this guy genuinely hadn't meant to be rude.

How bothered should I have been?

Very. This cad should have treated anyhow; he just let you walk all over him with that "research" B.S. Feminism has SOOOOOOOOO complicated life...

[N. Theknow]

No, he assured me, adding that he thought Ariel Sharon was an ass. I liked him even more.

Does this mean she and he think Arafat is peachy keen?

Rachel Corrie has been replaced

No wonder she was disappointed.

[Abynormal]

I suppose that if a date told me that he were picking up the tab.... expensing it for 'research', he could also expense the cab fare. Perhaps being used as a lab animal made him feel cheap!

[marshmallow]

Another confused '70s child, with no compass nor star to guide her. The three criteria which she set for her date amounted to absolutely nothing and could be satisfied by any one of the millions of smooth-talking, testosterone-filled jerks who presently inhabit the planet. Unfortunately, the good lady seems to believe that she is some sort of perceptive, highly selective, Y chromosome connoisseur.

The one critical word missing from her essay is "character". My experience of women like Ms Harrison is that they have little or none of it themselves and as a result value it little in others. They are thus extremely poor judges of it. Much more important is to meet someone "dashing", "handsome", "amusing" or some equally vacuous attribute, such as the ones she set (e.g. being able to rescue her from the Kalahari).

Ms. Harrison, before you splash out that amount of money on a guy, talk and listen to him and get a feeling for the sort of person he is, rather than spending the evening trying to impress him by acting hip and cool.

[Blood of Tyrants]

From the article I get this: she lies, she is not above petty theft from her company, and is probably Jewish but hates the idea of a strong Israel.

[pgkdan]

What a self obsessed and snobbish bore! She should grow up.

[Revolting cat!]

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[TheAngryClam]

I would be- this woman is into crap like old shoes?

F**K THAT (and I'm a born and raised Californian who lives by the beach in LA).

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Someday this liberal twerp will blunder into a real man, and then self implode.

[Interesting Times]

I should relish being confident enough not to waste time with people who don't make me feel great.

Perhaps the poor fellow was daunted by that awesome responsibility. Hard to blame him, really...

[UB355]

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[Porterville]

My girlfriend is a liberal, but she knows I won't ever accept anything liberal, ever.... that is the deal.... I am anti communist and absoulutely correct. She needs more evidence that liberalism is wrong.

[riri]

I told him he had to be able to party with me at a muddy music festival for three days

Here's a newsflash for ya, coolie. You are 32 years old--your Lollapalooza days are long since over.

My god, people really never think they are old anymore. It's down right weird.

[Check_Your_Premises]

"American woman, stay away from me!"

[Dan from Michigan]

A NOW type and a metroweenie? That should be a perfect match.

[nutmeg]

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