[MineralMan]

"Admittedly using ancedotal evidence isn't helpful on the face of things. However after college and work in the private sector accompanied by some W. Bennett works, they tend to justify such a view."

You will see whatever you want to see, I'm afraid. The point is that there are fine people all around you, people who have the potential to be a life-partner for you. Your prejudice against relationships and marriage is misplaced. I do not know who W. Bennett is, or what he/she writes, but if the bottom line of that writing is that all women and mean cheat on their spouses, or that all women are sluts, then he/she is quite wrong.

You will find whatever you are looking for in people. If you assume that all are evil, you will certainly find evil people. If you assume that many are good, you will encounter those. It's who you are and how you approach relationships that dictates what you find.

I encourage you to read more positive writings and to involve yourself with activities that will put you into contact with the type of woman you don't believe exists. Again, try your local churches.

[KantianBurke]

Sorry about that, Bill Bennett. He was Reagan's Secretary of Education and Drug Czar. He's written quite a bit in terms of the breakdown of society. Smart fellow and very eloquent.

I tend to disagree with regards to "what one chooses to see." If one lives in a violent neighborhood, one can notice how pretty some of the surrounding houses are. But that still doesn't displace the fact that you're living in gangland.