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I often fret about how impossible it feels to reach these people, to heal this divide. But lately I've been realizing that they have never thought the same about us. We don't owe them any more hands outstretched in friendship, not when all we get back is a fist and a gloating, hateful laugh.

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That was a tough read, Lyz, and thank you for your willingness to sit through something so demoralizing and hateful. Living in Colorado, I feel somewhat sheltered here, not that we don't have the right-wing fanatics here as well, but we also have a lot of middle-of-the-roaders (can there be such a thing in this day and age?) and solid progressives. And most everything you say about males in many of your postings I find to be true. Most of the circles I sit in are probably 80% female. "Where are the men?" I ask. Where indeed.

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