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Men Just Want Mommy
New York Times ^ | January 13, 2005 | Maureen Dowd

Posted on 01/13/2005 4:53:28 AM PST by Jim Noble

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To: Politicalmom
My best friend (now deceased) said to me one time... "I think men go through life looking for woman that will love them as much as their mom did".

I think there's more than a grain of truth in that. ;o)

41 posted on 01/13/2005 5:33:00 AM PST by iconoclast (Conservative, not partisan.)
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To: capt. norm
"Mo is still looking for excuses as to why she got dumped."

Maybe it's because she's neither powerful nor beautiful? In my view, she's a washed up nonintellectual vainly trying surgery to achieve what was not given to her naturally. She achieved her position as a token; it was not earned, nor is it deserved. She is a fitting example of the Legacy Media - whiny and obsessed, with no basis in truth. Other than that, she's great.

42 posted on 01/13/2005 5:33:22 AM PST by norwaypinesavage
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To: Jim Noble
The wife, played by Téa Leoni, is repellent: a jangly, yakking, overachieving, overexercised, unfaithful, shallow she-monster who has just lost her job with a commercial design firm.

If the shoe fits, Maureen... ;)

It isn't an ethnic thing. Women who grow up on a steady diet of American television, with its horrible models to young women of anti-male perpetual dissatisfaction, frequently turn out like Leoni's character. That's why men who look for foreign wives are playing a fools game unless they plan to move overseas - six months of watching TV, and that beautiful Russian "princess" will transform into a Dowd-In-Training.

43 posted on 01/13/2005 5:33:27 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves
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To: Jim Noble
I think she's right. MOST men just want a MOMMY. Someone to cook, clean and take care of them. Is this a new idea?
44 posted on 01/13/2005 5:35:30 AM PST by zoobee (http://www.mycathatesyou.com)
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To: Jim Noble
So was the feminist movement some sort of cruel hoax?

Say, maybe she IS catching on after all.

Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?

Groan! Didn't see that one coming!

45 posted on 01/13/2005 5:35:54 AM PST by lafroste (gravity is not a force, dangit)
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To: Publius6961

LOL good answer ;-)


46 posted on 01/13/2005 5:38:05 AM PST by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: HMFIC

Thats right HMFIC Men dont want Mommies they want a real wife. a real woman.


47 posted on 01/13/2005 5:38:36 AM PST by sgtbono2002
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To: Liz
and, when running for the hills, remember, the key is NOT to run too fast, else the guy can't catch you..

Dow'd problem, FYI, in relationships..it's the post-coital conversation. She speaks of the witty repartee between Hepburn and Tracy ( whenever Tracy was sober, BTW)..here's my brief take on "l'affaire Dowd"

HE: Wow. that was awesome. Was it good for you?

DOWD: Are you sure you're not a Republican? Why do YOU always have the right side of the bed? I'm so mad. While we were doing "it" I was thinking about the Bush twins getting gowns for the inaugural ball, and then I was thinking about Dick Cheney's cummerbund, and I really couldn't enjoy "it"

48 posted on 01/13/2005 5:40:32 AM PST by ken5050
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To: Jim Noble
So was the feminist movement some sort of cruel hoax?

Yes!

49 posted on 01/13/2005 5:42:25 AM PST by CharacterCounts
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To: Politicalmom

Smart AND sweet sounds like the perfect woman to me. What I don't want is an angry, bitter, overly competitive woman who brings the day's battles home to refight them there.


50 posted on 01/13/2005 5:43:27 AM PST by GBA
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To: Jim Noble

I've done a 51 year study and the women who are "equals" or "supervisors" insist on attempting emotional castration to assert there position.
I say attempting, because it only works if you let them.
If you don't let them, they hate you.

Example:
They have millions of suggestions as to how you should spend your money, so that you'll be acceptable.
(not talking about spending it on them, just how to "improve your image.)


51 posted on 01/13/2005 5:43:29 AM PST by G Larry (Admiral James Woolsey as National Intelligence Director)
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To: glockmeister40
There are two kinds of women out there - sweet or smart. I'll take sweet over smart any day.

You left yourself wide open on this one...hahaha.. Bad experiences with smart woman eh? Read a book or take a class.

I am not silly, airheaded, giggly or cutesy......I guess I'll never be married. I'll never be able to cook or clean or do a guys wash, put down that toilet seat or clean up his beard in the sink.....bummer. Oh well...LOL!

52 posted on 01/13/2005 5:43:35 AM PST by zoobee (http://www.mycathatesyou.com)
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To: Jim Noble
A second study, which was by researchers at four British universities and reported last week, suggested that smart men with demanding jobs would rather have old-fashioned wives, like their mums, than equals

The very term EQUAL here is misleading... someone can be an EQUAL without being the same.

Feminists and their apologists are just insane.

There is a reason a man with a demanding job doesn't want to be with a woman with a demanding job, and it has nothing to do with the fact that he can't handle a strong woman. Simple fact is a marriage is about having a family.... Yes, some folks choose not to do this, but this is the KEY factor in the overwhelming majority of marriages.

If one wishes to have a nice home and raise children, one can far more effectively do this is there is a parent in the home.. not only does this allow the effective day to day running of the home, and better suppport of their children... It also allows the spouse that does work to be more focused on their work when working and studies have shown they are more successful and earn more in this environment as well.

This idea that men are just evil and don't like strong women is nonsense. There is a difference, as wide as the pacific ocean though between being a strong woman, and being a bitch. The first is never the second, and the second always thinks she's the first.

53 posted on 01/13/2005 5:44:08 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Jim Noble

Did anybody notice that the women interviewed only want a "sugar daddy"?


54 posted on 01/13/2005 5:45:30 AM PST by G Larry (Admiral James Woolsey as National Intelligence Director)
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To: glockmeister40

Awwwww, you're so sweet! :D


55 posted on 01/13/2005 5:46:08 AM PST by Quinotto (On matters of style,swim with the current,on matters of principle stand like a rock-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: iconoclast

My Mom loved me for 20 years and my wife has had 42.

I have the greatest woman in the world.


56 posted on 01/13/2005 5:48:23 AM PST by sgtbono2002
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To: Jim Noble
Men Just Want Mommy

You are almost there Ms. Dowd.

Men do just want a mommy... for their chldren. They don't want some self absorbed, me, me, me woman who couldn't possibly put the needs of her family before her career.

57 posted on 01/13/2005 5:48:27 AM PST by CharacterCounts
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To: sgtbono2002

Exactly. My wife has put up with a lot of crap, both from the Corps AND ME! haha! But she STUCK IT OUT and THAT is what men are looking for. A GUTSY WOMAN who is down for the LONG HAUL not one that looks for a divorce lawyer at the first rough patch that life throws at them.

Hitting our FIFTEEN YEAR ANNIV. this year.

Sucks being a shrill nag Mo.


58 posted on 01/13/2005 5:48:47 AM PST by HMFIC (The Peace Symbol is the FOOTPRINT of the American CHICKEN!)
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To: Jim Noble
If women would just follow the rules, everything would be just fine.


59 posted on 01/13/2005 5:51:55 AM PST by Delta 21 (MKC USCG -ret)
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To: Politicalmom

Mega dittos, I agree with you completely. According to some of these...men(and I use the term indulgently), when women have a good head on their shoulders, they automatically are bitches. A woman is kind and sweet only if she walks 3 feet behind them(barefoot and pregnant)! What a bunch of hog wash! This however doesn't excuse the feminists who look down on the women who chose to stay home and take care of their family. But then there are boobs on both sides of the gender and the political isle.


60 posted on 01/13/2005 5:52:41 AM PST by Quinotto (On matters of style,swim with the current,on matters of principle stand like a rock-Thomas Jefferson)
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