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I don't mind, really, that Heirdoug worries that my poor husband is neglected while I write shrill, hysterical screeds on Vision 2020. I cringe a little at this suggestion that I "go bonkers" over Jeff, but trust that our 23-year-long marriage will survive nicely without the matrimonial advice of Doug Farris. And I'm quite aware of my need to breathe deeply and relax, which explains, I think, why I haven't smacked him one.<br><br>(That was a joke, Dale).<br><br>But when Farris calls Tom Hansen "not a man," implies that Tom would ever be glad a woman might be injured in combat so that, maybe, he wouldn't be, and ends with how proud a mother should be when her kid fights someone, I have to object. Tom Hansen knows more about courage than most men I know, and I don't think Tom or any other sentient being with a nodding acquaintance of decency, much less a relationship with God, would be proud of their child beating up someone. Not in sarcasm, because the "someone" is a girl; not in sincerity, because the "someone" was another little future man. That Farris would offend specifically by calling Tom "not a man" is the worst part of what Farris wrote. That he would then gild the lilly by adding how mommies are only proud when their boys beat up other boys is just a parting shot guaranteed to leave us with a lingering stench in the air.<br><br>Farris' exegesis of the Deborah/Barach/Jael passage was lacking, but at least civil. The rest of his verbal spewing is obnoxious as hell, by which, sadly, almost no one is surprised.<br><br>keely<br><br><span style="font-style: italic;">"And these women that you spit on as they try to change their worlds/</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Are immune to your consultations . . . they're quite aware of what they're going through"</span><br>(With apologies to David Bowie)<br><br /><hr />Missed the show? Watch videos of the Live Earth Concert on MSN. <a href='http://liveearth.msn.com' target='_new'>See them now!</a></body>
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