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seemingly sex starved and thus sex obsessed straight guy pervert bastard<br />
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      <![CDATA[Charles needs to get TWO slutty girlfriends - seems his needs are still unmet<br />
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Dan, come to the rescue<br />
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Ziggy, you are a great writer, AND, you had me by using the word jizz, my big time very favorite ejaculate expression
        
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      <![CDATA[1. Always raise your arms -- the rest will follow.<br />
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      <![CDATA[You know, even when she was 19, she wasn't that hot.<br />
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She was just sexy.<br />
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It's all in the attitude.<br />
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      <![CDATA[I feel for you Helen. I am trying to figure out when my face went from cute to frightening.
        
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      <![CDATA[@17: Oh please. If you think people are too quick to condemn this post as sexist, look at it in the context of Charles' oeuvre of meditations on women. The man's idea of feminine sexuality is to giggle and point like a fucking 12-year-old. Just because he throws in some intellectual claptrap to make it easier for you to swallow doesn't excuse him from reducing sexual discourse to ogling at body parts (see again foreheads, pendulous breasts), girls behind bars,  and barely legal tennis players. It's not an interest in the outside world, but a glimpse at his own trite perversion of that world.
        
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      <![CDATA[@13, how long do you have to practice every day to be such a cynical asshole?  Of course it's not Gladwell, its a blog post, which requires an interest in the outside world, an ability to synthesize information, and the ability to write a few clever adhesive sentences.  <br />
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Its just disappointing when people dismiss it and start yapping their faces off because OMG he posted an unflattering picture of Helen Mirren sexist bastard!
        
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      <![CDATA[I don't think the two photos look mutually exclusive.  There's nothing wrong with her shape in the second pic; she just needed to adjust the suit (I've doubt she did precisely that moments after this was taken).<br />
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That said, we all fall apart a bit as we get old; the damage is supposed to be part of the charm, as anyone who spends his or her spare time championing the crackle of old LPs, the hum of vacuum tube amps, the musty waft of old books, and the squiggling grain of old film stock will gladly tell you.  That these sorts don't reflexively apply this logic to the human body says more about our fears of mortality, our confusion about sexuality, and not a little bit of ingrained misogyny than it does about the relative visual or erotic "value" of our aging flesh or the stories written thereon.<br />
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I don't know (or care) what Mudede's motives are; I'm sure it has something to do with Marx or Hegel, but anyone who can gather more than that from anything he writes is braver, stronger, smarter, or more patient than I.   <br />
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      <![CDATA[@12: Hahaha. "The ultimate mashing together." Priceless. You should be Charles' assistant. <br />
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How's this for motives: Charles wants to look at tits and celebrities and foreheads all day. Charles doesn't want to look like a shallow pervert. Charles makes up bullshit Marxish non sequiturs and suggests white kids will murder their adopted mixed-race siblings to cover up for having no better motive to his work than wanting to look at tits and foreheads all day. Charles gets away with objectifying women by "mashing up" some crap about how galaxies fart symphonies, or right angles are a fractal expression of the cages within which colonists trap minorities, or how if he could only fuck Amanda Knox just once, he would jizz pure architecture.<br />
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      <![CDATA[@2,3,4,7,8,9 glad to see everyone's knee-jerk reaction times are good and low.  This post is the ultimate mashing together of high- and low-brow, science and sociology; y'all are just too wrapped up in your preconceptions of what the Mudede's motives are.
        
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      <![CDATA[I still bet her ass looks much better than Charles'.
        
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