I had a woman who seemed totally put together, great education, tons of her own money, and she turned out to be a mentally ill stalker.

Wellll, that is not life as “a conscientious modern man.” That is life as a moderately paranoid self-apologist. No offense intended.

It’s too bad you’re kinda awful, because I really like your screen name. And Starbuck herself.

This was actually a good comment.

Your tale is missing one important item: what did *you* want?!

You don’t blame her? She was extremely, extremely rude to someone who never did anything wrong to her.

I’ll take that as a concession about the content of my post.

I’m not a bro, babe. (See how that sucks?)

It sometimes seems like guys can’t win either.

He could use the sprinkles are for winners speech though.

Men are pretty much obligated to be covered entirely except for head and hands. Usually wool on the bottom half, and two layers of cotton on the top half. Plus full-covering shoes and socks.

That’s the key issue to you? Let me reframe this, correctly:

Really? That does NOT hit the nail on the head.

Love your screen name. My second choice for my screen name was the Frank Exchange of Views, which seems especially appropriate for a comments avatar on Gawker. Third was the Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall.

This Op-Ed in The Hill by a former Planned Parenthood clinic director might give you some insight about those who want to defund Planned Parenthood.

Edited out because what’s the point, y’know?

It was great to see the President use the word.

Well, there are many other kinds of Asians. And thanks for your anecdata; my own anecdata is that I know some modestly-successful Indians, and a few almost-poor ones. Pakistanis too. I know poor Vietnamese and Chinese in large numbers. Other poor immigrants include those from Mexico and Central America.

I’m interested in your reason(s).

I do not see why you took care to inject race into your comment. It seems to have no bearing on the issues at bar, nor even relevance to your own (otherwise valid) point.