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Updike! : Comments

By Peter Sellick, published 11/8/2014

Updike was a churchgoer all his life. He studied some divinity at Harvard and read Karl Barth. He said the Lord's Prayer with his children at bedtime. However, his Christianity did not seem to comfort him or rein in his adulterous behaviour.

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Bit of a long bow, Killarney :)

So ....... to be attracted to women, to enjoy being in their glorious presence, is actually to hate them, or hold them in contempt ? Peanut butter is actually strawberry jam ?

So how should one act if one actually likes women as friends, as companions, as work-mates ? Should one act as if one doesn't want anything to do with them ?

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, Freud wrote: you should take his advice.

Joe
Posted by Loudmouth, Monday, 11 August 2014 7:54:02 PM
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Killarney

I rejoiced in the term gynophiliac, suspecting I am one and applauded your smiting the god-botherers.

But I feel your theory is too exclusionist of us mere mortal men who like women for any number of reasons, usually complex and beyond dissembling.

Like Joe-Loudmouth I feel one can't be too doctrinaire because we 100% hunky-dory males would die out for lack of breeding.

Leaving only the knuckle-draggers like Sells and runner to populate the Earth, making it a Planet of the Apes.

And we wouldn't want that.

Regards

Pete
Posted by plantagenet, Monday, 11 August 2014 8:28:01 PM
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Plantagenet < "Leaving only the knuckle-draggers like Sells and runner to populate the Earth, making it a Planet of the Apes."

Oh my goodness NO! Save us girls from such a fate!

Killarney, I doubt Joe Loudmouth meant womenkind any harm, and I am sure many men do actually like women : )

As one of the OLO hated 'feminists', I can honestly say I really like men in general.
I just hate those who dislike all women....
Posted by Suseonline, Monday, 11 August 2014 11:29:52 PM
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Fear Not Susie

Being a cross between Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Flashheart* in my imagination - I'm at your service m'Lady.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Flashheart#Lord_Flashheart
Posted by plantagenet, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 12:07:29 AM
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Dear Sells,

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You wrote:

« As far as the sexual revolution is concerned do you really think that letting women practice their sexuality in the same way as men was really a step forward ? »

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That is what is called a revealing question.

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Posted by Banjo Paterson, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 6:39:59 AM
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loudmouth

Referring to women as God's 'perfect creations' and revelling in 'their glorious presence' does not indicate much respect for women as equals.

Putting women on a pedestal is just another form of sexism.

'Freud wrote: you should take his advice'

Thanks, but that guy was one helluva screwed-up dude when it came to women. He only ever had one word to describe them and that was 'hysterical'. He's the last person I would ever take advice from.
Posted by Killarney, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 9:13:35 AM
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