Posted on 09/18/2005 3:05:48 AM PDT by Caipirabob
Over a casual dinner, Rachel Kaplan turned to her boyfriend and asked, "You're open for a prenup, right?"
Darren Waldohlz, 38, a partner in a successful speed-dating business, admits he was caught off guard. But he said he realized a prenuptial agreement would protect the house he owns, too.
"It's not that I plan to get divorced," says Kaplan, 23, a single mom from Fort Lauderdale, who has a sizable inheritance. "I have to protect myself and my daughter."
While men are still more likely to seek a prenup, "women are becoming a more dominant force," said attorney Alan Braverman, who has offices in Fort Lauderdale and Boynton Beach.
Experts attribute the change to women marrying later or more than once.
"It's not uncommon in today's world that women are entering marriages with assets and stock options," said matrimonial attorney Jacqueline Valdespino, in Coral Gables. "Now both sides have equal bargaining power."
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
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So I post for the lurkers and to insure that FR is not taken for a madhouse, filled to the brim with the insane, the moronic, nor the uneducated.
But it's also a lot of fun to whack the idjits to a bloody pulp. LOL
Thank you wardaddy.
But how tragic for this country that someone of my traditional views--who alone seems to have resisted decades of sexual revolution liberal brainwashing--might ever be considered for banning from a "conservative" forum.
Because I dare to speak what the majority of those who lived since the beginning of the world have practiced: the difference between men and women.
I think AOR is a libertarian...
Not in the least.
I am no libertarian.
So, do you forgive your mother for making bad choices...or will you continue to condemn her for your father's transgressions?
I am old enough to remember that the first definition of the word, virgin, is as a noun to be used for women only.
It is derived from the Latin word, virginem, meaning "young girl."
I quote from the oldest dictionary I have ready to hand--"Webster's New World Dictionary," second college edition copyright 1984:
1. a) a woman, esp. a young woman who has never had sexual intercourse b) an unmarried girl or woman "
2. less commonly, a man, esp. a youth who has never had sexual intercourse.
And that was in 1984, the earliest dictionary I have handy.
But I do remember that before the 1960s the use of the noun, virgin, to describe a man was highly unusual: calling a man a virgin would have been like calling a man a maiden.
Only since the liberal trashing of our culture with the sexual revolution--
And the ensuing feminization of America, has the first definition of virgin been changed from "woman" to "person." in most or all American dictionaries.
And just as I adhere to traditional values, so i adhere to traditional definitions.
And so the word, virgin, to me will always refer to a woman--never to a man.
Feh. You have latched onto the very thing that makes me damn sure that humans are little more than monkeys in slacks. :-)
Bloody hell, FReepers more often than not, seem to reinforce my cynicism about human nature. There are good men and good women out there. If we didn't exist, this country would not have gotten where it is today. Honestly, I am disappointed with FReeper men; I know about the bullshit, but I neither take it personally nor project it upon my world view. How the hell is anything going to improve unless we stay strong and step up to the plate.
Feh. I'm going to bed. :-)
Preach it brother.
If conservative men genuinely over-performed on average, this would be a wildly different country. No doubt about it. Feh.
So, since you like more modern dictionaries, I pulled out a Webster's from 1960 and low and behold, under virgin, the sixth entry/definition reads as follows: "a youth or man who has not had sexual intercourse."
I sit here with WEBSTER'S ENCYCLOPEDIC UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, from 1989 opened to the word "virgin" and guess what it says in the sixth entry?
"a boy or man who has never never had sexual intercourse", which uses the word "boy" instead of "youth", but is, for all intents and purposes the same definition, given in the same place, as the one given in the same dictionary printed 29 earlier, before the "Sexual Revolution" was even whispered about, in the USA; let alone burgeoned into full bloom.
You wanna play silly, childish, easily refuted games? YOU CHOSE THE WRONG PERSON TO GO UP AGAINST !
Most words have more than one definition, in every dictionary ever printed. The first definition does NOT preclude the fact that there ARE, indeed, other uses/definition of that very word.
I took Latin for four years, sweetums and still remember a very great deal of it, all these decades later. So don't play play at that, with me, either.
And FYI...the use of the word "virgin", when applied to Mary, did NOT, at the time it was used, mean that her hymen was intact, but rather, that she was not yet gone through the marriage ceremony. Though, in the eyes of the Jews of the time and religiously, since she was betrothed to Joseph and the Kutubah (sp?) had been signed and witnessed by at least one Rabbi, they were wed in fact, though not formally.
And I remember in the 1950s, that the word "virgin" was used to connote those of either sex, who had never engaged in sexual intercourse. If my recollections aren't good enough for you, then how about we go back even further, to well before I was born, to the Broadway season of 1926/27 when the play "THE VIRGIN MAN" was running on in New York? It was about the seduction of a Yalie,by an older woman;BTW.
You aren't old enough to remember what America was like before the 1960s ( probably the 1970s too, for all that); just admit it. Because if you are actually older than we all suppose you are, then you are even sicker than all of us think that you are!
It is, no matter WHAT twisted belief you have, TRADITINAL, that boys/youths and men, who have never had sexual intercourse be called virgins!
What's the problem, don't like being called a VIRGIN because you think that makes you sound effeminate ?
YIKES....now where og where did the O go? LOL
TRADITIONAL
YIKES....now where oh where did the O go? LOL
TRADITIONAL
good grief!
right on!
"And making me seem like a predator only reinforces my assumption that you have many issues."
I don't make you seem like anything. You come across as a big headed ass when you practically brag that MOST women find you irresistable. "No, sadly it's my experience that it's not hard to loosen up most women."
That tells me that you are partaking in the loosening up of these women and that makes you look like a predator. You brought that image upon yourself brother.
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