<HTML>In a message dated 10/21/2003 10:17:22 AM Pacific Daylight Time, dperrin@comcast.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> DoreneC "And while I am at it, what is is about men who think the most demeaning thing they can say about other men is to equate them with women??????" Jock culture and the Fear of seeming Passive. 'Course, this is all hysteria, as there are plenty of women who defy such lax characterizations. But it's a male thang and at times cannot be helped. I prefer "wimps" and "cowards" to "pussies," for I, like Dorene, have too much respect for that lovely area on a woman's body to sully it with the likes of O'R and Limbaugh.  DP </BLOCKQUOTE> That and I find men are as terrified of women laughing at them as they are of other men calling them pussies. And I would much rather laugh... DC </HTML>