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Women are “face-to-face” communicators, while men respond better in “side-by-side” talks.   Women like a lot more eye contact and anthropologists think it has a lot to do with the biological roots of nursing, cuddling and caring for infants, which requires prolonged eye contact.

Men, on the other hand, tend to see eye contact as  confrontational.  Helen Fisher, in what has to be one of the best sex books ever, Why We Love, explains it this way:

“For many millennia men faced their enemies; they sat or walked sat by side as they hunted game with their friends.”

In other words, if you’re going to talk, do it while you’re walking, cooking or doing some activity where you’ll be side-by-side, not face-to-face.

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She’s so bad you fall asleep halfway through her moans.

How do you bring up such sensitive topic without getting kicked to the curb?

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The event in Jamaica once again proves that the shortest distance between two points is a tight blouse. She is nothing short of amazing. Take a look.

The military, desperate for Arabic translators is about to discharge Dan Choi, an officer in the National Guard under the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy. This will make him the first minority to be publicly discriminated against under the Obama administration.

Obama has to put up or shut up. Does he smear everything he stands for by allowing systematic discrimination against gay men and women, or does he stop it? Now that he’s President, he’s not just allowing bigotry and discrimination, he’s encouraging it. He’s the Commander-in-Chief. He doesn’t get to say, “my hands are tied.” Yes, he inherited Don’t Ask, but he can just as well disinherit it.

For a great piece on what could be a watershed moment for ending Don’t Ask, read Aaron Belkin’s column in HuffPo.

As a candidate Obama railed against prejudice; as a leader he can end it. What’s he going to choose? How many people will his administration victimize before he acts? Does Obama, who speaks openly of the discrimination he suffered, turn around and inflict it on others? Will the Commander-in-Chief become the Discriminator-in-Chief? Or will he step up and show us the courage of his conviction?

I know his advisers are saying, “Now’s not the right time, we’ve too much on our plate with the economy and the war.”

Here’s what I say: There is never a wrong time to do the right thing.

This morning while listening to the “Today” show, they mentioned “Sex and the City Syndrome”, which is where groups of  women go out, get drunk, talk shit, and hopefully engage in sex with inappropriate strangers.

My entire late teens through twenties can be summed up by a fake disease named after an HBO show? Yes, and some of my thirties too dammit. I was a late bloomer into adulthood.

Didn’t everyone do this? So what do guys have, “Entourage Syndrome”?

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Gay men by nature are more judgmental than Christian Fundamentalists and the Taliban combined. Having spent over half of my life immersed within the culture, like an abused spouse with no real intentions of walking away, I’ve simply gotten used to it. You quickly adapt to what is acceptable dress and music choices. But the one aspect of gay life that still eludes me, leaving me as mesmerized as Jane Goodall observing a pack of wild monkeys, is the appropriateness of how often one goes to the gay bar.

It would appear that a line has been drawn in the sand. On one side are the gays that would rather vacation in liberal, free-thinking West Virginia before they’d step foot into a gay bar. On the other side are the gays that can tell you the drink specials at any bar on any night and which drag queen is hosting what and where. The two rarely cross paths, obviously, but when they do, who exactly has the upper hand in judging the other?

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from Metroweekly: ”That’s not a sensitive topic. I love my daughter…. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][Growing up,] everybody quoted me and told me what to say, and ‘You gotta do this, you gotta do that. I’m not doing that with my daughter. My daughter is 21, she can talk and speak her own mind, and express herself…. I think each of us has a right to choose who makes that medical decision for us. I think everyone has the right to share homes and finances with somebody that they care about. When it comes to marriage, I think that civil rights need to be for all…. My daughter understands my beliefs.

Marie Osmond, former teen singer and contestant on ”Dancing with the Stars,” and arguably the most famous Mormon celebrity in the world, discussing on air the coming out of her oldest daughter, Jessica, as a lesbian in the Globe tabloid newspaper. She did not say she supported same-sex marriage but did say she supported gay couples having civil rights to make important decisions.[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]