HRS? Telling lies and misrepresenting the opinions of others? Well who woulda thunk it?

Talking about false allegations, on the other thread Pelican is referring to, you claimed the situation in 30-50% of marriages is that the wife "will have one or more children and seek a divorce. Then [she] will get most of the assets and allow [the ex-husband] to see the children every second weekend, as long as [he] pays [her] money. [She] will also call [him] a deadbeat dad and an absent father."

You say you've never seen a middle-aged man with a younger wife. Well, I've honestly only seen one situation even remotely like this. (Except in that situation the ex-husband has successfully avoided paying most of the child-support he owes, and fails to turn up to scheduled visits.) Most couples I know are still together, and those that aren't seem to have nutted out - through much compromise and generosity - equitable and mutually satisfying arrangements to care for their children. While I know situations are you describe them happen, it seems unlikely that 30-50% of all marriages end this way. So could we have a source of this statistic please? I don't mean how many marriages end in divorce, I mean the stats for the situation you've outlined.

Vanilla,
I’m not that well equated with VFL, but exactly how many VFL players rape women?

Is it the same number as the number of divorced fathers who drive around in a red sports car with a young blond half their age (or basically 0.0%).

Without being able to quote any actual statistics - anectdotal evidence would suggest that there are probably more divorced men driving around with women half their age than VFL players that have raped women.

Well that we know about anyway.

Pelica,
Well in that case, VFL players who rape women must be extremely rare (perhaps less than 0.01%).

So that clears up that feminist attempt to villify men.

Vanilla and pelican, meet HRS/Timkins - one of OLO's most long-serving misogynist trolls. There's no point in trying to reason with this sock puppet.

If you look at not only HRS's posting history, but also at his erstwhile incarnation as "Timkins" before he was banned (http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/user.asp?id=6333), I'm sure you'll realise that there's little point in taking him seriously.

Clearly the poor bugger feels aggrieved at his post-marital situation, but if you read the crap that he posts here it's hardly a wonder that he finds himself in it.

One of my sisters was in a relationship which was well on the skids. In desperation she concocted a plan which involved offering herself to be "designated driver" for a function thus allowing him, as usual, to drink himself almost catatonic. They had sex after that event, an activity he has no recollection of. She achieved her desired end, which was pregnancy, in the knowledge that his very traditional family would insist he marry her. She brags about this to this day, even in his presence.

Now class, can you say "power and control"? Can you spell "rape"?

For the whacker who called this form of rape "statutory" buy a dictionary. Statutory rape involves those below the age of consent.

Speaking as somebody who has lived in a similar spotlighted situation to footballers and other celebrities I can assure all that there is no shortage of drunken women who will quite aggressively make their interests known. Many of them don't much like being knocked back either. I was once sexually assaulted by one of these women in retribution for turning her down. Why would footballers need to rape when their are literally dozens lining up and begging for an opportunity? I am always extremely sceptical of rape claims I hear surrounding any well known individual.