"eHarmony.com rules...match.com sucks. any questions ?"
Posted on 04/03/2005 12:08:34 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
Match.com's view on Pat Buchanan:
'This famously conservative political commentator married Nixon's secretary Shelley Ann Scarney in 1971, and we can only assume she's been doing the dishes for him ever since. In his 1990 memoir Right From The Beginning, Pat made it clear that he's not the least bit open to the idea of equal, loving partnerships, saying, "The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer." Clearly, he likes the little ladies at home with an apron and a bottle of Mr. Clean. But feeling liberated? Hardly.'
The audacity of suggesting that Shelley Buchanan has been trapped "doing the dishes" for Pat... it's an allegation that borders on libel and slander.
I've called Match.com on their bias before, and was accused of being *cough* "too th-en-th-itive"....
OK. So I am th-ingle and th-en-th-itive, ladie-ths!
The comparasion to what is quoted from the book and what they are tying it too is faily weak if not nonexistant.
Not that I would ever back Buchanan on anything really, but in this case, the attack is pointless and illogically written.....
WC or WGF
Buchanan has rendered himself irrelevant since 1996. I don't know why anyone would bother to attack him. Well, yes, I do. Clearly Amy Spencer needs to go back to the shop and get a few more brains. This is about the feeblest argument I have ever seen.
Waidaminnit! Match.com has a magazine, and they think their opinion on anything matters? Aren't they just for bringing couples together?
Well, I guess in some wierd little way they can write about something like this, but puh-leeze! I'm not a Pat Buchanan fan, but this is a stretch.
"The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer."
OF COURSE, he is 100% right about this. Liberators not only of women, but of men too. Who knows whether it is ultimately for the good or not. But some of these numbskulls that complain about things should read some old novels, find out how long it took, how much effort was involved just to cook dinner, just to wash clothes.
I've said this for years, if these things hadn't been invented there'd be no "working mothers" they'd all still be working at home, to make supper and do the darn laundry.
Which I should be doing right now, btw, but hey! I'm liberated. Just waiting for the robots to arrive. (Robots must be able to go up and down stairs in order to perform laundry functions!)
"eHarmony.com rules...match.com sucks. any questions ?"
Attack? This is nothing. Pat's been slandered far worse by certain goons on this forum.
eHarmony takes themselves too seriously. They pressure you for "relationships" with someone you just met a day ago on the internet... seems very forced to me.
But maybe that's what I need...(!)
I remember seeing an interview that Barbara Walters did with John Wayne before he died. He was making the point that it wasn't liberal politicians who were responsible for the advancement of women, but businessmen who were looking out for their own self-interest in the free market. Barbara was mortified!
Hmm... they also talk about Tony Soprano and Ralph Kramden....
Remember the response that the Dems gave Dan Quayle when he talked about Murphy Brown.... "It's only TV!"
don't forget.....eHarmony checks "29 dimensions of comaptibility".....LOL...these things are so ridiculous.
Yes, I've got a few questions. I question the very honesty of eHarmony. I never got a date out of them. I'm a highly-educated woman and they kept matching me up with guys who hadn't finished high school and had never opened a book subsequently. I'm a conservative and they kept pairing me with left-liberals. I'm a Christian and they tried to hook me up with agnostics. I'm a strong, slender, athletic outsdoorswoman and they matched me with men whose most strenuous exercise consisted of pointing the remote at the TV. None of them was interested in ANY of the myriad subjects I'm interested in--art, history, politics, science, religion, horses, hunting, guns, architecture, conservation, farming, writing, home improvement, music, skiing, anything! Meanwhile, all this was costing a fortune--I gave them several hundred bucks, $50 per month, before I realized I was being scammed. I like Neil Clark Warren's books but his software leaves something to be desired.
Match.com, on the other hand, has brought me some lovely men, men who do have some things in common with me and will be my friends for the rest of our lives. No, I haven't met my True Love yet, but beloved friends are good, too, and hope springs eternal.
I was being VERY sarcastic
Ditto
Perhaps what Pat was trying to suggest is that the advent of modern conveniences freed women from working from early morning until late at night caring for their families. It gave them time to pursue other interests. Instead of having to work for hours scrubbing clothes by hand in a washtub, they could throw a load of laundry in the washer and drive to the local college to take a class and then come home to cook food that they didn't have to grow themselves.
And how does Match.com know what goes on between Pat Buchanan and his wife?
This has to be one of the dumbest attacks on a public personality that I have ever read.
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