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6.22.04 @ 12:01AM

WOMEN AND WINNERS
Re: William Tucker's Spare the Women:

Fantastic article by W. Tucker today. I don't normally think along these lines, and it's great to have my noggin jostled like that.

Will you make sure readers know when his upcoming book "Monogamy and Its Discontents" becomes available? Putting interested readers on a special, one-time only mailing list would do the trick. Pity we have to wait 'till next year.
-- Dave Fobare

Talk about a male chauvinist! Yes they are still around. they cannot comprehend that women are truly intelligent people, even as intelligent as William Tucker thinks he is.
-- Jim Schrenker

I strongly disagree with you on "women just wait to see who the winner will be." That may be true in the animal kingdom and it may be true in a percentage of the human kingdom but it's not true in self-determined women who think more of themselves than "just a partner for a strong male."

And for your own good I hope you get to meet some of the latter. I think a lot of women are weak and want to be taken care of (the taken care of isn't a weakness as long as they contribute in other ways that are just as valuable). But there are a lot of women out here who truly DO NOT agree with your wife.

Mohammed Atta was brainwashed and probably on drugs when he committed this disgusting act. He was very weak-minded from the get-go. Strong ethical people do not do this kind of thing, only weak, unethical, criminals would so this kind of thing.
-- Joni Ramm

I speak with some authority about women, having been one myself for over forty years. If someone tried to hurt any member of my family, I would kill him if necessary, and wound him badly just to send a message. Biology has endowed women with emotional intelligence that years of political correctness and educational brainwashing have not yet erased. If there are any little Tuckers about the house, ask Mrs. Tucker what she would do to protect one of them from harm. I hope she knows the right answer.

As for Islam, I have no difficulty at all grasping the threat of Islam, which debases women beyond anything else that I can think of.
-- Julie McKinley

With all due respect, I am a 40-year-old woman and I do not believe as the writer's wife that these Islamic fanatics can be appeased. They want me dead unless I conform to their sick and twisted way of life. Which is exactly why I wonder where is the NOW on all of this? Where is the outrage with women in the 21st century wearing a blanket aka burkha over their entire body in 100 degree heat? Having to walk in town only escorted by a male regardless if the woman is a widower. People like me never get polled by the media but trust me -- there are a lot of bright women like me who understand what's at stake here. Women's freedoms in the U.S., in particular, are a stark minority to the rest of the world. The ignorant women who control the media and have the gall to claim they speak for all of us just don't get it. That's why they support sheep like John Kerry. I get it. And I'll vote with the rest of my friends this fall to ensure a second W term. Why the Jews vote Democratic today is beyond me too. W is the only one for Israel really. He's put our U.S. military behind his pledge. I don't want to get off message here, but many women understand what's at risk behind this Islamic jihad. The Islamic women in the U.S. are noticeably silent as well because their husbands would beat them for speaking out. I'm grateful for being born an American woman more than ever before and I support George W. Bush because he gets it too.
-- unsigned

ENGLAND TOO?
Re: Jed Babbin's Vague It Up:

Loved it, hit the nail on the head.

Bardot should be given a medal because Islam is BARBARIC. One only has to read "Hatred's Kingdom."

Keep up the good reporting and work.
-- Mike

P.S. Let us hope my email address is not being "monitored" or this will be the last one from here, having lived in Germany for almost 40 years, I can attest to a lot of the info from Jed.

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