Sweet merciful crap!!What ever happened to “How to become an early riser”? Can we get back to helping people with their problems? Is that too much to ask from my local personal development blogger?

The love and support are much appreciated, but there were also lots of immature reactions to our announcement. For example, a few bloggers tried to capitalize on it by writing ridiculous posts to play up the drama in order to garner more attention for their blogs. We really don’t want to feed the drama addicts. [...]

-SpaceGeek

hehe. Looks like we hit a nerve.

On his most recent Nov 2 blog, he posted more about how amiable their friendship still is.
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2009/11/a-few-updates/

I don’t think you can compare him to any unpleasant divorce experiences you personally have had. He had this to say about the reaction to his separation announcement:

The love and support are much appreciated, but there were also lots of immature reactions to our announcement. For example, a few bloggers tried to capitalize on it by writing ridiculous posts to play up the drama in order to garner more attention for their blogs. We really don’t want to feed the drama addicts. Many people also projected their own relationship and divorce issues onto us and our children, asserting all sorts of false assumptions about the nature of our relationship and our reasons for separating. These people’s personal issues have nothing to do with the reality of our situation, and a high volume of low-quality feedback and advice from people who’ve never even met us really isn’t helpful to us, so I don’t want to encourage more of that silliness.

I’m not sure what you mean by your question about the media, but I believe it is quite inappropriate to sexualize young girls. Having worked in a home for boys and with the boy scouts, I think the sexualization of young boys in the media also appeals to a distressingly large segment of homosexual pedophiles (look up NAMBLA).

I’m also against sexualization of young boys and girls. Anyway here is the part that I was asking about:

I don’t think that everytime a woman has her shirt off on tv or the movies that it has to be in a sexual context. What about medical shows where they’re patients? I mean, what’s the big deal about two mounds of fat and glands anyway? Yeah guys are turned on by them, but should that be the basis of always covering women’s breasts in the media or having this societal “Oh noes” or almost repulsive attitude about them?

When you say use them do you mean just by simply having cleavage or by actually putting them in your face? Because I can’t imagine wearing a turtleneck in a hot club, party, etc.

What’s your opinion in regards to the media and everything else in my comment if you don’t mind?

I work with a couple of women, one of whom is married and one isn’t, who are quite endowed, always wear low-cut tops, and never seem to pass up an opportunity to lean over something when they are talking to me, and quite literally “shove them in my face.” It gets quite tiresome because it is a fundamentally different way of interacting than any male co-worker engages in.

That being said, it is quite easy to ignore them, look elsewhere, or even look at them without reacting. I know quite well that the normal implied meaning of the gesture is nowhere to be found.

Those habits carry over outside work as well. I have had many occasions over the years when I thought it was pretty obvious that a woman was angling for my attention and to get me to ask for her phone number, and I just do as my habit suggests and go elsewhere, or completely ignore them. I have seen women get so agitated by my refusal to give them any attention at all that they almost seemed on the edge of pulling a “Hildegard Hamhocker” and clobbering me up side the head with something.

I’m not sure what you mean by your question about the media, but I believe it is quite inappropriate to sexualize young girls. Having worked in a home for boys and with the boy scouts, I think the sexualization of young boys in the media also appeals to a distressingly large segment of homosexual pedophiles (look up NAMBLA).

Personally, I have no problem if women want to walk around topless all the time. I think eventually it would desensitize men to the sight and decrease women’s power to play sexual games. I remember the old days when the joke about National Geographic Magazine was how many boys bought it because it showed pictures of tribal women with bare breasts.

What I object to is women who obviously do everything they can to put their breasts in a man’s line of vision, and then bitch about men looking. If they want to bare their boobs, and will shut up about men looking, I say go for it.