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Are Men Stupid?
CNN ^ | Mon April 23, 2012 | Frida Ghitis

Posted on 04/29/2012 6:18:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Are men stupid? How else can we explain the endless parade of otherwise successful individuals, who by all appearances seem intelligent and competent, and yet risk destroying their careers and their personal lives over the chance to have a sexual escapade?

John Edwards crashing from the heights of promise to infamy, from presidential candidate to defendant in a trial after a secret affair; Secret Service agents ending their careers in disgrace over dalliances with prostitutes in Colombia, all join that long procession of men who managed to self-destruct, pulling a pin on the grenade of their careers and perhaps their personal lives for the sake of a little fun.

The pageant of legacy-killing misjudgment includes a president, several might-have-been presidents, a few governors, a World Bank director, a former Dutch prime minister, an Israeli president and one of the top golfers of all time. And that is only a partial list.

How to explain it?

The question has baffled women, mostly, since biblical times.

Perhaps the Secret Service agents thought their behavior, if discovered, would raise no eyebrows. But the stupidity was in evidence when one of the agents, who had earlier "protected" Sarah Palin, posted on Facebook that he was "checking her out." Sounds like the claim of a 13-year-old boy. And the decision to post the comment displays the common sense of an 8-year-old.

But that level of maturity and judgment shines compared to the decision of, say President BillClinton, who risked his presidency to have an affair with Monica Lewinsky, and then lied about it repeatedly.

A brilliant man, everyone said about the president, but also one of only two presidents in American history impeached.

The Clinton experience almost numbed us to the epidemic scale of the problem. Over and over we hear stories that defy belief.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billlockyer; genderwars; men; nadialockyer; psychology
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To: bmwcyle

“Then she stood in front of Adam naked and talked him into falling.”

They were both already naked “and and were not ashamed” (Genesis 2:25). After Adam sinned, THEN the consequences of shame and distortion of the sex drive.


41 posted on 04/29/2012 6:54:07 PM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: nickcarraway

Think of an invention. Any invention. Who do you think invented it? Was it a feminist womyn’s studies major? Was it a professor of ethnic studies or Marxist philosophy? Or was it a white or Asian man?


42 posted on 04/29/2012 6:56:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Ich habe keinen Konig aber Gott)
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To: nickcarraway
Are Men Stupid?

What idiot asked that question?

43 posted on 04/29/2012 6:59:22 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Red Steel

The second one is worth checking out. :)


44 posted on 04/29/2012 7:02:06 PM PDT by xp38
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To: nickcarraway

“Are men stupid? How else can we explain the endless parade of otherwise successful individuals, who by all appearances seem intelligent and competent, and yet risk destroying their careers and their personal lives over the chance to have a sexual escapade?”

The article is written by a woman.

By her nature, she cannot understand.

Because she is not a male, she will -never- understand.

Such is the gender gap...


45 posted on 04/29/2012 7:03:17 PM PDT by Road Glide
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To: nickcarraway

Anybody that voted for Obama or Romney is dumb as a brick.


46 posted on 04/29/2012 7:04:02 PM PDT by Mozilla (Constitution Party 2012)
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To: nickcarraway

Takes two.
‘nuf said.


47 posted on 04/29/2012 7:04:09 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Albinos Of The World Unite! You Have Nothing To Lose But Your Brains
http://www.fredoneverything.net/AlbinosUnite.shtml


48 posted on 04/29/2012 7:05:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Ich habe keinen Konig aber Gott)
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To: nickcarraway

Certainly. Or the species would not continue.


49 posted on 04/29/2012 7:08:23 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: xp38

Frida appears, from the photo, to be a dyke. There’s probably some penis envy haunting her.


50 posted on 04/29/2012 7:09:15 PM PDT by mountaineer1997
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To: ClearCase_guy

Can you imagine what a different country this would be...


51 posted on 04/29/2012 7:19:30 PM PDT by BamaBlue
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To: central_va
Why do they want power? To get chicks

And before women readers get all outraged and look down their noses at us men, I'll even answer the next question:

Because it works!!! Yes, many of you fall for it!! If you didn't, we wouldn't do it, and would move on to something else that worked.

52 posted on 04/29/2012 7:22:30 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: JRandomFreeper
Men are often stupid.

But women were more likely to vote for Obama in 2008 than men were, and are more likely to vote for him again this year.

So the stupidity of men is not across-the-board.

53 posted on 04/29/2012 7:26:11 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: nickcarraway; a fool in paradise
Is there any other culture, so self-conscious, so guilt-ridden, self-ANALizing, self-doubtful as ours?
Italian men (and woman). Sure, it's an old picture, 1950s, I guess. A classic. I hope they haven't changed!


54 posted on 04/29/2012 7:27:06 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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Between Bill and Monica, one could easily argue she was the stupid one...he’s a Dem Party rockstar...she’ll be forever known as his disposable receptacle.


55 posted on 04/29/2012 7:34:23 PM PDT by Tex-Con-Man (T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII 2012 - "Together, I Shall Ride You To Victory")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hmmm. Apparently not a rhetorical question.

Think of an invention. Any invention. Who do you think invented it?

You mean like the circular saw, liquid paper (White-Out), COBOL, square-bottomed paper bags (well, the machine that produced them). zig-zag sewing machine, dishwasher, windshield washer, kevlar and a new broad spectrum navigation system, not to mention all kinds of things in the medical field? All invented by women, the nav system by actress Hedy Lamar.

56 posted on 04/29/2012 7:40:44 PM PDT by dorothy ( "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: nickcarraway

See my tag line.....


57 posted on 04/29/2012 7:41:02 PM PDT by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: nickcarraway
said the angry dyke...
58 posted on 04/29/2012 7:41:07 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: central_va
Why do they want power? To get chicks.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. -- Henry Kissinger

59 posted on 04/29/2012 7:45:18 PM PDT by dorothy ( "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: dorothy
and a new broad spectrum navigation system

Interesting. A system to navigate a spectrum of broads. Hmmmm... I want one!

60 posted on 04/29/2012 7:48:49 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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