--- In [email protected], "L B Shriver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Are you referring to Tom Pall? > > > > > > Yes. Tom was never by any stretch of the imagination rich. But he > > > managed all his life to make a good income, spent most of his life > > > single and often cared more about giving to others than keeping for > > > himself. He grew up in a thrify household which didn't even > > > believe in > > > buying a house on credit until one had saved enough to buy one > > > outright. He was, when all the ladies came back from Governor > > > Training talked up as a "good catch" and is till considered to be > > > one today. You'd probably have to be a woman to understand their > > > way of thinking. > > > > I don't know about anyone else, but I find the > > concept of women thinking of a man as a "good > > catch" because of his income more offensive than > > any of the racist epithets attributed here to Tom. > > > ******** > > Why would you be offended by this? It's a simple fact of life, affirmed to be so by many > intelligent women in private conversation and also by normal observations. > > A fairly smart guy with some expertise in this area told me once that men who want to be > loved "for themselves", and not for their incomes, basically want mother love from their > spouses, and are not confident about their abilities to be a "provider". >
Which means that the multi-millionaire in the Doris Day story (I think it was) who pretended to be destitute in order to find "true love" was insecure about his ability to provide? And of course, the sorta-remake with Eddie Murphy, "Coming to America," was all about how insecure the prince was financially... > I am not pointing a finger here, nor making an accusation. This is just what came up in > repsonsive to your remarks above regarding what you found "offensive". > > L B S > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Dying to be thin? Anorexia. Narrated by Julianne Moore. http://us.click.yahoo.com/abEMxA/sbOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
