Jesse's right, I am suddenly all full of rage. Of course I've been a bit ragey about the health care stuff for at least a week or so. This is the first I've heard of the PUA movement. I have to say, I find it puzzling in the same way I found The Rules puzzling.

Oh and while the conversation has moved on from Empowered eating, my guess as to the reason it's "toast" and not toast is that it's a raw food restaurant. So it's not really bread, much less bread that's been toasted. Which brings me to another thing I find puzzling, which is the need to call vegan and vegetarian food things that it's not, like vegetarian chicken.

PUA is just recycling the same old shit: [link]

But if a stranger walked up and said something like that, I'd think, who the fuck are you, and why do you think it's okay to talk to me in a manner that assumes a pre-existing intimate relationship with me, and also fuck right the hell off.

see, y'all lost me at "a stranger walked up and said somthing". My dislike of people I don't know pretty much ensures that anyone doing the above will get cut off before completing a sentence with "please leave me alone", "go away", and/or repulsion face. If not in an enclosed space I most likely will just walk quickly away without even committing to uttering a word myself. And I test extreme extrovert.

What freaks me out and annoys the crap out of me is that my EMPLOYER sent me postcards already written and signed by "ME" and addressed to those same senators and MY representative explaining how "I" feel that we should keep our employer based healthcare. And urged me to send in these postcards, etc etc. I was like "OH FUCK NO"

That doesn't even make any sense! Oh man, i've got a rage headache now.

And I think the problem with the PUA business is the same as any system of belief -- there are people who take it the right way and get some benefit, and crazy people who distort it and use it for evil.

Of course there are men who need concrete tips about how to start a conversation with a woman, and take that knowledge to build actual relationships. And then there are men who think they can learn how to trick women into having sex with them.

Oh man, i've got a rage headache now.

I don't think those are covered under your current plan.

I also yell at the people who say that we have choice under the current system. If your employer provides health insurance, you have whatever insurance company your employer has chosen and that insurer's customer is your company, not you. The odds are that's an HMO or PPO, so you're limited in what doctors you can choose. If you're self-employed and not aren't under 30 and in perfect health, here you essentially have the choice of two insurance companies. If you've also had cancer, you have the choice of exactly one insurance company: the one you're with.

see, y'all lost me at "a stranger walked up and said somthing". My dislike of people I don't know pretty much ensures that anyone doing the above will get cut off before completing a sentence with "please leave me alone", "go away", and/or repulsion face.

Well, you have a point. I'm so misanthropic that I give off huge "Don't even LOOK at me" vibes. So it's a moot point for me, but *if* someone were fool enough to try it, I'd be angling for a cockpunch.

meara, isn't your employer a pharamceutical company?

What Jesse said.

Also I am so rage-filled about the fear-mongering being done on the right regarding healthcare that I can hardly see. It's immoral to lie just further a political agenda--and then to lie about something so needed and so basic just makes it 1,000 times worse.