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		<title>By: jon</title>
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		<dc:creator>jon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a man who has stopped dating,and sees not point in it because I have assets,and there is no way I am getting married in this country where woman leave marriage 70 percent of the time,getting alimony,child support,bankrupting the men and that good ol maternal presumption in divorce courts??Uh no....

  Most if not every woman I have ever met is only interested in one thing,not what I even look like,my personality,anything...just what do you do and how much do you make,some woman even point blank ask you that-

  Some woman have tried to find out what people in my family,or even friends have???

  Womans attitudes are so horrible nowadays,why even talk to someone who&#039;s head is big,with such a sense of entitlement.
 
  I am not even interested in sex with the modern day woman with std levels.

  Woman arent getting it today,maybe the reason your single is because of you-

  All I want in a woman is someone who is honest,in shape and fun to be with who if I did marry,wouldnt someday rape me in divorce court,and american men cant even find that,and after seeing all of our friends divorced and bankrupted by woman,with the woman in a lot of cases making the kids hate the man,whats the point.

  To much liability,to much drama.Woman are like crazy rich men,fical with to many options,woman thinking they can have it all because they think every man in the whole world will throw themselves at a set of boobies,there are men like that,they are called losers.

  We are real men though,honesty and big accomplishments trump fake boobs anyday.Men are evolving,old school tough real rich men are tired of old school tramps-spread the word ladies,we are getting tired.

 
  

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a man who has stopped dating,and sees not point in it because I have assets,and there is no way I am getting married in this country where woman leave marriage 70 percent of the time,getting alimony,child support,bankrupting the men and that good ol maternal presumption in divorce courts??Uh no&#8230;.</p>
<p>  Most if not every woman I have ever met is only interested in one thing,not what I even look like,my personality,anything&#8230;just what do you do and how much do you make,some woman even point blank ask you that-</p>
<p>  Some woman have tried to find out what people in my family,or even friends have???</p>
<p>  Womans attitudes are so horrible nowadays,why even talk to someone who&#8217;s head is big,with such a sense of entitlement.<br />
 <br />
  I am not even interested in sex with the modern day woman with std levels.</p>
<p>  Woman arent getting it today,maybe the reason your single is because of you-</p>
<p>  All I want in a woman is someone who is honest,in shape and fun to be with who if I did marry,wouldnt someday rape me in divorce court,and american men cant even find that,and after seeing all of our friends divorced and bankrupted by woman,with the woman in a lot of cases making the kids hate the man,whats the point.</p>
<p>  To much liability,to much drama.Woman are like crazy rich men,fical with to many options,woman thinking they can have it all because they think every man in the whole world will throw themselves at a set of boobies,there are men like that,they are called losers.</p>
<p>  We are real men though,honesty and big accomplishments trump fake boobs anyday.Men are evolving,old school tough real rich men are tired of old school tramps-spread the word ladies,we are getting tired.</p>
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		<title>By: InsertPseudonymHere</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 02:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My situation is related to the posters...yet different.  She talks about feeling &quot;hopeless.&quot;  Clearly she WANTS to be in love with someone. Me, (I am male)  am just plain not interested for the first time in my life.
I posted a profile and began dating just because that is what I have always done after being alone for a while. Over a month and a half I filtered through many profiles, communicated with a few dozen and went out on first dates with maybe 7-8, and  second  dates with 3-4, and a couple of  third dates, one fourth and fifth. . . For the first time I did not find myself falling for anyone , at any level. Usually I will at least be a little interested in some. I got along well with the ones I saw more than once. I  enjoyed talking to them and with and a couple of them I felt very compatible regarding values, life outlook etc.  I never felt the desire to kiss anyone, except at the end of one of the first dates (it just felt right in that one moment). I kept seeing one of the more interesting women a few times more waiting to want to become romantic, but in the end I decided I am just not interested. I told my remaining contacts how I felt and that I did not want to waste any more of their time and pulled down my profile.
Yet, I know I am happier when I am in a relationship. I know I miss  having someone to hold, and yes I still have the &quot;urge.&quot; My whole life I have wanted to be in a happy relationship, and now no one, including some rather attractive (both physically and mentally and socially) women leave me uninterested.
I plan on just living my life, and waiting until I start feeling a desire to hit on someone. That will be when I know that maybe I am ready, but right now I don&#039;t think that will ever come. I think I may be done with that part of life.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My situation is related to the posters&#8230;yet different.  She talks about feeling &#8220;hopeless.&#8221;  Clearly she WANTS to be in love with someone. Me, (I am male)  am just plain not interested for the first time in my life.<br />
I posted a profile and began dating just because that is what I have always done after being alone for a while. Over a month and a half I filtered through many profiles, communicated with a few dozen and went out on first dates with maybe 7-8, and  second  dates with 3-4, and a couple of  third dates, one fourth and fifth. . . For the first time I did not find myself falling for anyone , at any level. Usually I will at least be a little interested in some. I got along well with the ones I saw more than once. I  enjoyed talking to them and with and a couple of them I felt very compatible regarding values, life outlook etc.  I never felt the desire to kiss anyone, except at the end of one of the first dates (it just felt right in that one moment). I kept seeing one of the more interesting women a few times more waiting to want to become romantic, but in the end I decided I am just not interested. I told my remaining contacts how I felt and that I did not want to waste any more of their time and pulled down my profile.<br />
Yet, I know I am happier when I am in a relationship. I know I miss  having someone to hold, and yes I still have the &#8220;urge.&#8221; My whole life I have wanted to be in a happy relationship, and now no one, including some rather attractive (both physically and mentally and socially) women leave me uninterested.<br />
I plan on just living my life, and waiting until I start feeling a desire to hit on someone. That will be when I know that maybe I am ready, but right now I don&#8217;t think that will ever come. I think I may be done with that part of life.  </p>
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		<title>By: Jordan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jordan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@ Rose #46
You think that the playing field is going to &quot;even out&quot; with technologies such as egg freezing?
What do you think is going to happen when sex robots are invented?  Sure it may not happen for another 50 years, but what guy is going to want to ask a live girl to dinner, when he can bang &quot;Angelina Jolie&quot; for the night, over and over, and not have to deal with any compromises of a relationship?
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ Rose #46<br />
You think that the playing field is going to &#8220;even out&#8221; with technologies such as egg freezing?<br />
What do you think is going to happen when sex robots are invented?  Sure it may not happen for another 50 years, but what guy is going to want to ask a live girl to dinner, when he can bang &#8220;Angelina Jolie&#8221; for the night, over and over, and not have to deal with any compromises of a relationship?<br />
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		<title>By: JerseyGirl</title>
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		<dc:creator>JerseyGirl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
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&lt;cite&gt;Evan M&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.evanmarckatz.com/blog&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;arc Katz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;Nov 22nd 2009 at 07:17 pm &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-51302&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;37&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;

Please allow me to remind you that the ONLY person who said that women were worthless was JerseyGirl. Sigh.
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That&#039;s not what I said at all. Lets agree that neither one of us likes being misqouted.
And I certainly never said that you should be telling us we are perfect. Infact, I find it a little insulting that you persist in using this arguement when it&#039;s so far from the subject. It&#039;s not a matter of you blowing sunshine up our you know what. It&#039;s a discussion.
It doesn&#039;t depress me that &quot;you can&#039;t change men&quot;. What depresses me are the comments that men are selifsh, fickel...etc etc etc. And that you just want women to accept it so they can get a few scraps of affection. Men don&#039;t stop being selfish or fickle just because you get inrelationships, at least by your very own reasoning. It seems that women are expect to give more and keep give more of themselves then men are expected to. That&#039;s not motiviation. And telling women &quot;hey you are too old but you MIGHT get a man to throw you a bone&quot; isn&#039;t motivation either.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><cite>Evan M<a href="http://www.evanmarckatz.com/blog" rel="nofollow">arc Katz</a></cite>Nov 22nd 2009 at 07:17 pm <em><a href="#comment-51302" rel="nofollow">37</a></em></p>
<p>Please allow me to remind you that the ONLY person who said that women were worthless was JerseyGirl. Sigh.<br />
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br />
That&#8217;s not what I said at all. Lets agree that neither one of us likes being misqouted.<br />
And I certainly never said that you should be telling us we are perfect. Infact, I find it a little insulting that you persist in using this arguement when it&#8217;s so far from the subject. It&#8217;s not a matter of you blowing sunshine up our you know what. It&#8217;s a discussion.<br />
It doesn&#8217;t depress me that &#8220;you can&#8217;t change men&#8221;. What depresses me are the comments that men are selifsh, fickel&#8230;etc etc etc. And that you just want women to accept it so they can get a few scraps of affection. Men don&#8217;t stop being selfish or fickle just because you get inrelationships, at least by your very own reasoning. It seems that women are expect to give more and keep give more of themselves then men are expected to. That&#8217;s not motiviation. And telling women &#8220;hey you are too old but you MIGHT get a man to throw you a bone&#8221; isn&#8217;t motivation either.</p>
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		<title>By: Jennifer</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jennifer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@Rose #46
I sympathize with your situation. I wonder if you&#039;ve considered a couple of things though:

-when do you, or when do you plan to, reveal your real age to your dates? Do you disclose your real age in teh written section of your profile? The pyschologically healthy men you were referring to a few posts ago would most likely not appreciate being lied to, even if you consider it to be a minor one
-Say you began corresponding with a man that said he wanted children. At some point after you&#039;ve been dating and developing feelings, what if  he says he didn&#039;t mean it, he only said it because he knew a lot of women wanted kids. You&#039;d likely feel deceived and angry- you don&#039;t want to cause that feeling in someone else.
-Based on my (admittedly limited) knowledge of egg donation, there are no gurantees. I&#039;m guessing you&#039;d want someone who is just as dedicated to seeing the effort through as you are. I believe you have a better shot of finding that guy if you are honest from the beginning.

Are you on any other website besides POF? eHarmony is somewhat known for having family-oriented clientele, over a large age-range. 
Regardless, i wish you the best.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Rose #46<br />
I sympathize with your situation. I wonder if you&#8217;ve considered a couple of things though:</p>
<p>-when do you, or when do you plan to, reveal your real age to your dates? Do you disclose your real age in teh written section of your profile? The pyschologically healthy men you were referring to a few posts ago would most likely not appreciate being lied to, even if you consider it to be a minor one<br />
-Say you began corresponding with a man that said he wanted children. At some point after you&#8217;ve been dating and developing feelings, what if  he says he didn&#8217;t mean it, he only said it because he knew a lot of women wanted kids. You&#8217;d likely feel deceived and angry- you don&#8217;t want to cause that feeling in someone else.<br />
-Based on my (admittedly limited) knowledge of egg donation, there are no gurantees. I&#8217;m guessing you&#8217;d want someone who is just as dedicated to seeing the effort through as you are. I believe you have a better shot of finding that guy if you are honest from the beginning.</p>
<p>Are you on any other website besides POF? eHarmony is somewhat known for having family-oriented clientele, over a large age-range.<br />
Regardless, i wish you the best.</p>
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		<title>By: Jennifer</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jennifer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@Kenley #48
I absolutely love these lines from your post:
*holding on to what happened in the past only serves to make you feel bad and does nothing to help you adjust to what&#039;s happening now.*
It applies to so many things.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Kenley #48<br />
I absolutely love these lines from your post:<br />
*holding on to what happened in the past only serves to make you feel bad and does nothing to help you adjust to what&#8217;s happening now.*<br />
It applies to so many things.</p>
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		<title>By: Kenley</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kenley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for all the typos in my previous post. I openly admit that I not the best proof reader -- especially when I&#039;m not wearing my eye glasses!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry for all the typos in my previous post. I openly admit that I not the best proof reader &#8212; especially when I&#8217;m not wearing my eye glasses!</p>
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		<title>By: Kenley</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kenley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find it so interesting that women complain that men seek younger women when women are also seeking younger men -- not men who are younger than they are per se, but men who are younger than the men who contact them. Either way, both types of preferences are placing a higher value on someone younger. For me, a guy who is only 5 years older than I am IS my age. If the acceptable age range for a woman is plus or minus 2 years, she could be eliminating a whole bunch of good men. When I was in my 20&#039;s, my long term boyfriend was 10 years older. When I started dating again in my 40&#039;s, my long term boyfriend is also 10 years older than I am. We both are active, young at heart, and always up for an adventure.  There are lots of people in their 50&#039;s and 60&#039;s who are vibrant and full of life. I don&#039;t think people should date anyone for whom they don&#039;t feel some kind of attraction, but giving someone who is 5 to 10 years older might not be such a bad thing.
It&#039;s been noted once or twice on this blog, but the parallels between finding a job and finding a mate or so similar. I have a friend looking for work who complains that when he is was seeking a job 15 years ago, he got multiple overs within 3 weeks of beginning his search. Now he is been searching for over a year without any offers from his field. While I greatly empathize with him (I&#039;m looking for work myself), holding on to what happened in the past only serves to make you feel bad and does nothing to help you adjust to what&#039;s happening now.
I think the same holds true for dating. Holding on to the men or women you could get in the past -- who are ignoring you now -- only serves to make you feel bad. You just need to focus on what can you do right now to get a good partner.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I find it so interesting that women complain that men seek younger women when women are also seeking younger men &#8212; not men who are younger than they are per se, but men who are younger than the men who contact them. Either way, both types of preferences are placing a higher value on someone younger. For me, a guy who is only 5 years older than I am IS my age. If the acceptable age range for a woman is plus or minus 2 years, she could be eliminating a whole bunch of good men. When I was in my 20&#8242;s, my long term boyfriend was 10 years older. When I started dating again in my 40&#8242;s, my long term boyfriend is also 10 years older than I am. We both are active, young at heart, and always up for an adventure.  There are lots of people in their 50&#8242;s and 60&#8242;s who are vibrant and full of life. I don&#8217;t think people should date anyone for whom they don&#8217;t feel some kind of attraction, but giving someone who is 5 to 10 years older might not be such a bad thing.<br />
It&#8217;s been noted once or twice on this blog, but the parallels between finding a job and finding a mate or so similar. I have a friend looking for work who complains that when he is was seeking a job 15 years ago, he got multiple overs within 3 weeks of beginning his search. Now he is been searching for over a year without any offers from his field. While I greatly empathize with him (I&#8217;m looking for work myself), holding on to what happened in the past only serves to make you feel bad and does nothing to help you adjust to what&#8217;s happening now.<br />
I think the same holds true for dating. Holding on to the men or women you could get in the past &#8212; who are ignoring you now &#8212; only serves to make you feel bad. You just need to focus on what can you do right now to get a good partner.</p>
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		<title>By: Sayanta</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sayanta</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heather

do the Dita Von Teese thing and you &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; get Marilyn Manson. lol- 

btw- if that&#039;s what you like, you should just come to New York, and hang out at the Bat Cave or something. :-)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Heather</p>
<p>do the Dita Von Teese thing and you <em>will</em> get Marilyn Manson. lol- </p>
<p>btw- if that&#8217;s what you like, you should just come to New York, and hang out at the Bat Cave or something. <img src='http://www.evanmarckatz.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Rose</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rose</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for the reply, Even; I feel honored. I know, I shouldn&#039;t jump to conclusions... just that in your quoted statistics for the month there were no successes over 45, but you&#039;re right that it&#039;s important not to generalize and that was just the past month. Bravo for the 73-year-old... I will have to check that post!

One more point I wanted to make is that I personally feel that the playing field between men and women will begin to even out to some degree when technologies like egg freezing are perfected (too late for me) and perhaps even artifical gametes are developed... but I know that latter one is very much in the future and is at present still rather in the &quot;science fiction&quot; category. I really believe it is largely a man&#039;s ability to reproduce that gives him the bargaining chip where age is concerned.

My problem is that I still want a child, but it would have to be by egg donation, at this point, which I prefer to adoption. So, I find myself lying about my age on dating web sites, just to have the chance to hear back from men who want kids. Tonight, for example, on plentyoffish where I&#039;ve listed myself as 42 (I am 47), I have a message from a handsome 58-year-old who wants to have a child (he thinks he&#039;s writing to a woman 16 years his junior, whereas even at 47, I am still 11 years his junior!). Now, what do I do, and when do I come clean? I hate being dishonest and I shouldn&#039;t do it, but I&#039;m in the delicate position of still very much wanting to give birth to a child in a country where egg donation still isn&#039;t mainstream (and in my case, it needs to happen fairly soon!). I would be interested in your view on this or even a blog post on it, because I don&#039;t believe you have dealt specifically with the issue of egg donation and men&#039;s views on it. This would be huge for me as a blog post, and I bet for many other women as well.

Really appreciate your honesty on this site regarding your own life, dating experiences, and marriage. I think it&#039;s why I read your blog.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the reply, Even; I feel honored. I know, I shouldn&#8217;t jump to conclusions&#8230; just that in your quoted statistics for the month there were no successes over 45, but you&#8217;re right that it&#8217;s important not to generalize and that was just the past month. Bravo for the 73-year-old&#8230; I will have to check that post!</p>
<p>One more point I wanted to make is that I personally feel that the playing field between men and women will begin to even out to some degree when technologies like egg freezing are perfected (too late for me) and perhaps even artifical gametes are developed&#8230; but I know that latter one is very much in the future and is at present still rather in the &#8220;science fiction&#8221; category. I really believe it is largely a man&#8217;s ability to reproduce that gives him the bargaining chip where age is concerned.</p>
<p>My problem is that I still want a child, but it would have to be by egg donation, at this point, which I prefer to adoption. So, I find myself lying about my age on dating web sites, just to have the chance to hear back from men who want kids. Tonight, for example, on plentyoffish where I&#8217;ve listed myself as 42 (I am 47), I have a message from a handsome 58-year-old who wants to have a child (he thinks he&#8217;s writing to a woman 16 years his junior, whereas even at 47, I am still 11 years his junior!). Now, what do I do, and when do I come clean? I hate being dishonest and I shouldn&#8217;t do it, but I&#8217;m in the delicate position of still very much wanting to give birth to a child in a country where egg donation still isn&#8217;t mainstream (and in my case, it needs to happen fairly soon!). I would be interested in your view on this or even a blog post on it, because I don&#8217;t believe you have dealt specifically with the issue of egg donation and men&#8217;s views on it. This would be huge for me as a blog post, and I bet for many other women as well.</p>
<p>Really appreciate your honesty on this site regarding your own life, dating experiences, and marriage. I think it&#8217;s why I read your blog.</p>
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