Re: Oefelein Reassigned

jacob navia <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:Jim Davis wrote:
:> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18871486/
:>
:> Did anyone see this coming? :-)
:>
:> Jim Davis
:
:This person started a relationship with a married woman
:when he also was married.
:

And that doesn't happen unless both marriages are already in trouble.

:
:He made the woman ask for divorce, and leave her family
:that was the center of her emotional life for 15 years.
:

Uh, he didn't 'make' her do anything.

:
:After she did that, he tells her he has found a better
:one and leaves her hanging.
:
:She overreacts, with the known consequences. Instead of
:realizing the rubbish the guy is, she starts a fight for
:him.
:

I don't think plotting murder can quite be characterized by
'overreacts'.

:
:Epilogue:
:
:She is now in some back office, her career destroyed,
:and facing criminal charges.
:

Through her own actions.

:
:Why would the guy get over it without any problems?
:

Perhaps because HE didn't flip out and start breaking laws and
threatening people?

:
:That would be unfair.
:

I'd bet you'd have a whole different spin if things were reversed and
he'd STILL be scum, right?

When did having two X chromosomes become a mitigating factor?

Let's try a slightly different story with the same facts, shall we?

Two people who work together are both having problems in their
marriage. They start talking and it soon blossoms into a
relationship. He ends his troubled marriage. He soon realizes what a
neurotic and codependent lunatic he's currently involved with and
breaks it off. She flips and plots a murder.

Seems to fit the facts better, to me.


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