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leadership527 -> RE: Weight and Master/Dom control (12/1/2010 3:18:12 PM)
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ORIGINAL: AquaticSub
That's an opinion I just don't share. It depends on the level of their weight and what their doctor says about their health. I know first hand it's entirely possible to be overweight and healthy.
*nods* And, actually, I know this to be true also. I'm mindful of the woman I watched on TV who was clearly overweight.. maybe even obese by the medical standards... counting either body fat OR BMI. Yet even so, her cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar and insulin levels, etc. were all very positive. The extra fat didn't stop her from running marathons either. Of course, it's also true that 66% of the people who smoke don't die of cigarettes. I'm still not calling cigarettes a good thing. It's also true that a relatively small percentage of us just plain have really resilient genes. These are the "lived hard and fast till the age of 103" folks. But for most of us, doing unhealthy things carries a price tag with it. I'm going to stop this particular line of reasoning here. I had no patience for people arguing that cigarette smoking was not a health problem (back when I smoked) and I have the same lack of patience for this argument.
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...Which is all gravy
to YOU. To ME, it is a core part of the responsibility I signed up for... .responsibility, I might add, that I'd truly prefer not to have. I am here to tell you that it is WAY more fun to command Carol to blow me than it is to command her to reshape her relationship with food, exercise, and alcohol. So it's not like I'm doing this because I don't have better things to do. I'm pretty OK with deciding for myself what is and is not gravy to me. Does it help you to know that your attitude is just as mystifying to me as mine is to yours? I am baffled how anyone could call the physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual health of someone... "gravy". What the hell is the meat then?
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Interesting. The last studies I read (admittedly a few years ago) showed that men cheated more. Could you link to your studies please?
No. I wouldn't give you links to studies showing that 1+1 <> 3. Why on earth would I link this? Both the mathematics and the studies are trivial to find.
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I'm retracting the mathematics part for now... I'm suddenly a bit unclear on the exact nature of the things being studied AND on the details of the math involved. I want to check my work on the mathematics. It is certainly true that men and women have similar numbers of lifetime partners. There are definite relationships between that and fidelity and marriage rates but I'm suddenly wanting to double check my work on that.
If you really care, search for real studies, not magazine polls. And search post 2005-ish. Be CAREFUL what you read. There are radical differences between the following statements:
~15% of women admit to cheating when asked face to face.
~40% of women admit to cheating when asked anonymously.
~50% of women admit to cheating when they believe they are hooked to a polygraph (no real polygraph needed)
~?? of women actually cheated.
For bonus points, let's play guess how many babies are actually the biological product of their alleged father. (Nobody knows right now, but as the data starts to trickle in, if you're thinking anything higher than 85%, you're almost certainly wrong. As the cost of DNA testing continues to drop though, we are bound to find out given that every single one of these instances represents theft in the amount of 200k - 1.5m). The bottom line is that we are just now starting to study ACTUAL human mating habits (and we are struggling to do so.. we HATE looking at that). And the data that is coming out flies in the face of conventional wisdom some categories... supports it in other.
Just for the record, I'm not saying women are bad. I happen to really, really like women.. more than men as a matter of fact. Most of my friends are female. What is emerging though is the real clear understanding that women are not any more pure or faithful or virtuous than men. In fact, they're about the same but they lie more (due to a higher social cost for telling the truth).
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