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Pointedstick wrote: I think most of the bitterness comes from a small number of people with an overabundance of bitterness. Speaking for myself, I'm in a stable, happy long term relationship right now. Probably most of the other people in this situation don't feel the need to participate in these threads. But I do because I'm bored out of my mind in isolation with a nasty case of shingles so anything that involves moving around much is off limits.

PS,

My very best wishes for a speedy recovery.  Never had shingles but I hear it is really bad.  My doctor offered my wife and I the shingles vaccine a couple of years ago; he said we do not want to get shingles - we took his advice.  I'm currently suffering with a pinched nerve in my neck (getting old sucks) and maybe can somewhat identify with nerve issues such as shingles and the related intense pain.  Get well soon. 

... M

Thanks everyone. Sadly the vaccine isn't approved for people younger than 50 so I imagine there are a lot of younger folks who are going to be getting it as more and more people are vaccinated against chicken pox and people's natural immunity wanes from lack of continuous exposure. I found out that one of my friend had it at age 20.

Pointedstick wrote: Thanks everyone. Sadly the vaccine isn't approved for people younger than 50

Given at 1 year. And can be given again later if no evidence of immunity.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/h ... adult.html

My impression was that if you're an adult who got chicken pox before the varicella vaccine was invented, you're not offered it again to protect against shingles until age 50.

Pointedstick wrote: My impression was that if you're an adult who got chicken pox before the varicella vaccine was invented, you're not offered it again to protect against shingles until age 50.

You could always tell the Doc you are a Democrat where your role models approve of "slightly misstating facts" and tell him you are age 51.  Then go for absolution. 

... M

IDrinkBloodLOL wrote: There's an overabundance of marital problem & anti-marriage threads here.

Are a lot of you people bitter divorcees or stuck in horrible marriages or what?

There are three threads, and to my knowledge this is the first time we have discussed these issues here, so there may be some pent up points of view that are being expressed.

Out of thousands and thousands of threads, I wouldn't say that three threads on a given topic is an "overabundance."

It's ironic (and a little amusing) that when we get our first new female member in ages we are all suddenly talking about love, relationships, and sex. 

Pointedstick wrote: Thanks everyone. Sadly the vaccine isn't approved for people younger than 50 so I imagine there are a lot of younger folks who are going to be getting it as more and more people are vaccinated against chicken pox and people's natural immunity wanes from lack of continuous exposure. I found out that one of my friend had it at age 20.

Shingles is horrible. BTW, I had the vaccine, but I got shingles anyway.

My wife isn't going to get the vaccine because she got a good dose of my virus when taking care of me.

MediumTex wrote:

IDrinkBloodLOL wrote: There's an overabundance of marital problem & anti-marriage threads here.

Are a lot of you people bitter divorcees or stuck in horrible marriages or what?

There are three threads, and to my knowledge this is the first time we have discussed these issues here, so there may be some pent up points of view that are being expressed.

Out of thousands and thousands of threads, I wouldn't say that three threads on a given topic is an "overabundance."

It's ironic (and a little amusing) that when we get our first new female member in ages we are all suddenly talking about love, relationships, and sex. 

I was talking about the same issues on another forum specifically about love, relationships, and sex.  But there were some feminists on there who HATED my views and tore me apart.  So I found the thread here about the same issues and jumped right in. 

Michellebell wrote:

MediumTex wrote:

IDrinkBloodLOL wrote: There's an overabundance of marital problem & anti-marriage threads here.

Are a lot of you people bitter divorcees or stuck in horrible marriages or what?

There are three threads, and to my knowledge this is the first time we have discussed these issues here, so there may be some pent up points of view that are being expressed.

Out of thousands and thousands of threads, I wouldn't say that three threads on a given topic is an "overabundance."

It's ironic (and a little amusing) that when we get our first new female member in ages we are all suddenly talking about love, relationships, and sex. 

I was talking about the same issues on another forum specifically about love, relationships, and sex.  But there were some feminists on there who HATED my views and tore me apart.  So I found the thread here about the same issues and jumped right in.

There is a house rule here against tearing people apart.

BTW, how did you find us here?

MediumTex wrote:

Michellebell wrote:

MediumTex wrote: There are three threads, and to my knowledge this is the first time we have discussed these issues here, so there may be some pent up points of view that are being expressed.

Out of thousands and thousands of threads, I wouldn't say that three threads on a given topic is an "overabundance."

It's ironic (and a little amusing) that when we get our first new female member in ages we are all suddenly talking about love, relationships, and sex. 

I was talking about the same issues on another forum specifically about love, relationships, and sex.  But there were some feminists on there who HATED my views and tore me apart.  So I found the thread here about the same issues and jumped right in.

There is a house rule here against tearing people apart.

BTW, how did you find us here?

It's a pretty funny story now that it's after the fact. I am very new to forums.  I was a member of one twelve years ago and found one about relationships that I joined around the first of the year.  I never talk about issues regarding feminism IRL because usually if I start to bring it up, people react like there's either something wrong with me or they've just never noticed what I've noticed.

So I ended up getting into a really interesting conversation but it turned into this crazy battle of the sexes with the men and me arguing against the feminists.  Some of them ended up really insulting me (although they would say I really insulted them) but I ended up really getting my feelings hurt and realizing that the most outspoken women on there now REALLY don't like me.

So I took a little break and said I would leave, but I couldn't stay away!  The conversations were so fascinating.  I wanted to keep talking about it but didn't want to be attacked by some of the women for being a drama queen or anything.  There was no way for me to cancel my account, so I made a new one and continued posting but was MUCH more careful not to say anything that could offend a feminist. 

It didn't even occur to me that having multiple accounts was against the rules!  It was a dumb move on my part.  Someone figured out who I was and banned me permanently.  So I created a phantom email and joined again and contacted several members privately whom I had been conversing with in the threads. I told them I was banned and could be banned again any time now but enjoyed talking to them but can't talk anymore.  One of them wrote me back and told me about this forum as a place for social commentary and said I might want to check this place out if I want to keep talking about it.  So I joined.

You're certainly welcome here! Now that the Permanent Portfolio is more or less "settled science" most of us pretty much hang around just to talk about interesting things.

Pointedstick wrote: You're certainly welcome here! Now that the Permanent Portfolio is more or less "settled science" most of us pretty much hang around just to talk about interesting things.

Thanks.  I might learn something new if I stick around too.  The people here are all very nice.

You know what's funny?  Another woman from my other discussion was so inspired by what I said (she happens to agree with me) that she joined antimisandry.com and showed me her post where she asked if women are welcome there too.  I thought of joining there too but some of the responders told her to be prepared for some female-bashing from some of the responders.  I found the views here to be more balanced so I joined.  Since it seems all male, I didn't have to worry anymore about offending women.  I hope you all appreciate a female perspective here.

Michellebell wrote: You know what's funny?  Another woman from my other discussion was so inspired by what I said (she happens to agree with me) that she joined antimisandry.com and showed me her post where she asked if women are welcome there too.  I thought of joining there too but some of the responders told her that she was welcome but to be prepared for some female-bashing from some of the responders.  I found the responses here to be more balanced so I joined.  I hope you all appreciate a female perspective here.

Immensely.

Michellebell wrote: You know what's funny?  Another woman from my other discussion was so inspired by what I said (she happens to agree with me) that she joined antimisandry.com and showed me her post where she asked if women are welcome there too.  I thought of joining there too but some of the responders told her to be prepared for some female-bashing from some of the responders.  I found the views here to be more balanced so I joined.  Since it seems all male, I didn't have to worry anymore about offending women.  I hope you all appreciate a female perspective here.

I think you will find that we do. Welcome!

Michellebell wrote: You know what's funny?  Another woman from my other discussion was so inspired by what I said (she happens to agree with me) that she joined antimisandry.com and showed me her post where she asked if women are welcome there too.  I thought of joining there too but some of the responders told her to be prepared for some female-bashing from some of the responders.  I found the views here to be more balanced so I joined.  Since it seems all male, I didn't have to worry anymore about offending women.  I hope you all appreciate a female perspective here.

Absolutely!  Glad you are here. 

... M

Aww, thank you all.  This has been a good way to pass the time too.  I feel really guilty today and yesterday, even though I know I shouldn't.  My 10-month old son is sick with a fever and congestion and crankiness and I haven't been to work all week!  I had Monday off for the holiday so that was good, but he's had a fever and been incredibly clingy since Sunday night.  I took him to the doctor yesterday and he has no ear infections or anything, just a virus.  But I have missed soooo many days of work this school year.  I've used up all my sick time so at this point I'm not getting paid for days off and I fear I'm coming across as irresponsible.  But with three kids under the age of six all going to daycare our house is a germ-fest.  Between them getting sick and me getting sick, it's been a hard year.  I'm lucky my boss is really nice about it.