If you can't be happy, even if you have zero friends, then you have a self-esteem problem. That's why it's called self-esteem. I'm sorry you view young women as trophies for your small ego, but not everyone needs the sexual validation from other people to be happy.

There's nothing wrong with using sex as a means to feel better about yourself.

being chosen by a woman in that position - whether it's for a relationship, a fling, or just a night - is a pretty good ego boost.

I'm not dodging, I'm very directly telling you that your opinion-masquerading-as-argument is absurd and only worth ridiculing. I don't have to prove decades of historiological concenus to you; you however ought to back up your wild theory with at least one thing you didn't pull out of your ass.

It is very appealing to ridicule you, yes. You don't have an argument here, just an opinion, and if someone in my field were to produce a radical thesis that flies in the face of 50 years of scholarship, and then couldn't back it up, they'd be laughed out the door. Which is what I am doing to you. Ha ha ha ha ha.

What argument? You haven't made one worth taking seriously.

And talking about White people being the victims of racial stereotyping while basing an argument on a racial stereotype of Jews! Nothing goes better with chips and dip!

Such a multi-faceted personality. He must be great at parties.

You may not know the history of the Jewish people and that is okay.

Except Jews never had the privileges and power that they were portrayed as having, especially not in Central and Eastern Europe in from 1850-1933. White people do have such privilege and power, and until they can be convinced to relinquish some of the disproportionate advantages they have, those who are…

Wow, your feelings have been really hurt by this, haven't they? Is it because you want to hang onto your right as a white man to do whatever you want? Or because you can't stand women and POC contradicting you? Nothing you've said can be backed up with any research or sociological theory, so I think it is funny…

Jews were never actually made the "default" by the Nazis. They were made an ethnic "other" - culturally, biologically, and psychologically different from the "norm" of the Aryan race - and it was their "pollution" of German society that the Nazis considered responsible for the troubles of the Weimar years. Along…

Hear hear! That was my first thought when reading this article.

You on this thread = solid gold.

Wow.

Why are 90% of you comments needlessly dismissive and rude? You haven't demonstrated the knowledge, intelligence, or wisdom to justify your haughty attitude, yet you feel entitled to it.

That picture, now many many years removed from context, is just so funny to me. He looks like a character from the straight-to-DVD Top Gun sequel, and his crotch straps look very painful.

Can I just say that you are my hero/heroine? gck cherry-picked a study and then completely misinterpreted the results to argue against something that we have both correlative and causal evidence for, and the article you linked is a perfect summary.

And you completely misinterpreted the study you cited, so I fail to see how you are more adequate at reporting medical news than the Harvard Gazette.

And as for the curious suggestion that the 'Japanese culture' is in any way preferable to the American one, well, if one prefers outrageous racism, total denial of history, a healthy dose of barbarism and slavish devotion to authority, then for goodness sakes ask for Japanese citizenship.