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		<title>By: Paul H.</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2008/03/29/in-which-i-ramble-about-attraction/#comment-108879</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul H.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who think they speak for everyone are pathologically egocentric.  That this man believes he speaks for &quot;every straight man with a set of eyes&quot; indicates a level of delusion compatible with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.  From the &quot;closeted&quot; remark, it&#039;s obvious he&#039;s also struggling with unwanted homosexual desires.  I don&#039;t like that he insulted you, however, I can&#039;t help but feel sorry for the guy.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People who think they speak for everyone are pathologically egocentric.  That this man believes he speaks for &#8220;every straight man with a set of eyes&#8221; indicates a level of delusion compatible with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.  From the &#8220;closeted&#8221; remark, it&#8217;s obvious he&#8217;s also struggling with unwanted homosexual desires.  I don&#8217;t like that he insulted you, however, I can&#8217;t help but feel sorry for the guy.</p>
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		<title>By: Lunaestrella</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2008/03/29/in-which-i-ramble-about-attraction/#comment-108700</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lunaestrella]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whops sorry for the double post fellow shapelings. My computer was acting up and I thoought my first post didn&#039;t go through.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whops sorry for the double post fellow shapelings. My computer was acting up and I thoought my first post didn&#8217;t go through.</p>
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		<title>By: lunaestrella</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2008/03/29/in-which-i-ramble-about-attraction/#comment-108699</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like skinny women don&#039;t have relationship problems? Show me a hot supermodel  or actress and I&#039;ll show you a series of bad relationships and marriages. Being &quot;perfect&quot; certainly doesn&#039;t guarantee that your partner won&#039;t cheat on you.  

I think that the snot nose sewer dwelling troll needs a reality check because my husband gets women after him all the time.  They give me dirty looks &quot;What is HE doing with HER ?&quot; and they think I don&#039;t notice when they try to be all subtle and flirt with him right in front of me.  It used to piss me off but my hubby says he doesn&#039;t want anything to do with them and only wants me.  He tells me I&#039;m beautifull or sexy everyday.
But I  guess my hubby is just in denial. lol.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Like skinny women don&#8217;t have relationship problems? Show me a hot supermodel  or actress and I&#8217;ll show you a series of bad relationships and marriages. Being &#8220;perfect&#8221; certainly doesn&#8217;t guarantee that your partner won&#8217;t cheat on you.  </p>
<p>I think that the snot nose sewer dwelling troll needs a reality check because my husband gets women after him all the time.  They give me dirty looks &#8220;What is HE doing with HER ?&#8221; and they think I don&#8217;t notice when they try to be all subtle and flirt with him right in front of me.  It used to piss me off but my hubby says he doesn&#8217;t want anything to do with them and only wants me.  He tells me I&#8217;m beautifull or sexy everyday.<br />
But I  guess my hubby is just in denial. lol.</p>
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		<title>By: lunaestrella</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2008/03/29/in-which-i-ramble-about-attraction/#comment-108698</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[lunaestrella]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my opinion I think these snot nosed sewer dwellers need a reality check.  Since when have conventally attractive women been immune to the same relationship problems as us fatties? It is a rarity nowadays that you don&#039;t find a supermodel  who hasn&#039;t gone through a series of bad relationships and or marriages. Being skinny does not guarantee your spouse will not cheat on you.

Just because someone doesn&#039;t tickle your fancy doesn&#039;t give you the right to be an asshole.  Nor does it mean that eveyone else down the line is going to agree with your personal prefferences.  It is pretty darn narcissic and arrogant to assume that all of our partners are in denial and want other women.

As for my hubby, he gets women chasing after him and hitting on him all the time, sometimes right in feont of me.  I don&#039;t care because I know he only wants to be with me and he says I am sexy and beautifull every day.  And I don&#039;t have cottage cheese thighs either so the moron who thinks he knows everything can stuff it.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In my opinion I think these snot nosed sewer dwellers need a reality check.  Since when have conventally attractive women been immune to the same relationship problems as us fatties? It is a rarity nowadays that you don&#8217;t find a supermodel  who hasn&#8217;t gone through a series of bad relationships and or marriages. Being skinny does not guarantee your spouse will not cheat on you.</p>
<p>Just because someone doesn&#8217;t tickle your fancy doesn&#8217;t give you the right to be an asshole.  Nor does it mean that eveyone else down the line is going to agree with your personal prefferences.  It is pretty darn narcissic and arrogant to assume that all of our partners are in denial and want other women.</p>
<p>As for my hubby, he gets women chasing after him and hitting on him all the time, sometimes right in feont of me.  I don&#8217;t care because I know he only wants to be with me and he says I am sexy and beautifull every day.  And I don&#8217;t have cottage cheese thighs either so the moron who thinks he knows everything can stuff it.</p>
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		<title>By: Cheddar</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2008/03/29/in-which-i-ramble-about-attraction/#comment-108216</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cheddar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[*offers Kate one of her prizewinning home-made cookies that she only makes on special occasions and only gives to people she thinks are groovy*]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>*offers Kate one of her prizewinning home-made cookies that she only makes on special occasions and only gives to people she thinks are groovy*</p>
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		<title>By: peregrin8</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2008/03/29/in-which-i-ramble-about-attraction/#comment-108209</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am fairly skinny... and I have been a professional proofreader for over a decade... and I read that as &quot;unbelievably attractive.&quot;

Kate Harding, you are fabulous.

This blog makes me love the species way more than I usually do.  Even the me part of the species!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am fairly skinny&#8230; and I have been a professional proofreader for over a decade&#8230; and I read that as &#8220;unbelievably attractive.&#8221;</p>
<p>Kate Harding, you are fabulous.</p>
<p>This blog makes me love the species way more than I usually do.  Even the me part of the species!</p>
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		<title>By: Jessikanesis</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2008/03/29/in-which-i-ramble-about-attraction/#comment-108155</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessikanesis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I also initially read it as &quot;attractive&quot; rather than &quot;unattractive,&quot; and had to go back like twice to see why Kate was upset about the comment. Weird how our brains do that.

This reminds me of a friend of mine who was dating a really hot guy (i refer to him as hot because almost everyone in our group of friends saw thim that way. this doesn&#039;t mean he&#039;s everyone&#039;s cup of tea) who would often make her feel like crap by trying to figure out what was &quot;wrong&quot; with himself. Why did he think something was wrong? Because he was attracted to her. And his &quot;common sense&quot; told him he shouldn&#039;t be. Yes that&#039;s right: &quot;What is my psychological damage that I would actually enjoy sleeping with someone who looks like you?&quot; Ouch.

And it took her about two years of this before she could work up the confidence to break up with him, because she always said she was afraid she would never &quot;get anyone as hot as him&quot; again. The idea that someone who was both attractive AND nice could actually be interested in someone like her was a completely foreign concept to both of them, and it made me facepalm. Hard. Repeatedly.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I also initially read it as &#8220;attractive&#8221; rather than &#8220;unattractive,&#8221; and had to go back like twice to see why Kate was upset about the comment. Weird how our brains do that.</p>
<p>This reminds me of a friend of mine who was dating a really hot guy (i refer to him as hot because almost everyone in our group of friends saw thim that way. this doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;s everyone&#8217;s cup of tea) who would often make her feel like crap by trying to figure out what was &#8220;wrong&#8221; with himself. Why did he think something was wrong? Because he was attracted to her. And his &#8220;common sense&#8221; told him he shouldn&#8217;t be. Yes that&#8217;s right: &#8220;What is my psychological damage that I would actually enjoy sleeping with someone who looks like you?&#8221; Ouch.</p>
<p>And it took her about two years of this before she could work up the confidence to break up with him, because she always said she was afraid she would never &#8220;get anyone as hot as him&#8221; again. The idea that someone who was both attractive AND nice could actually be interested in someone like her was a completely foreign concept to both of them, and it made me facepalm. Hard. Repeatedly.</p>
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		<title>By: Ruth</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2008/03/29/in-which-i-ramble-about-attraction/#comment-106501</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOL i read the inital post as &quot;dear Kate you are an unbelivably attractive woman-signed every straight man with a pair of eyes&quot; 
now why might that be.. because my misreading is true?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LOL i read the inital post as &#8220;dear Kate you are an unbelivably attractive woman-signed every straight man with a pair of eyes&#8221;<br />
now why might that be.. because my misreading is true?</p>
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		<title>By: E</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2008/03/29/in-which-i-ramble-about-attraction/#comment-101526</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[E]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My It&#039;s Complicated and I were discussing the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWvlDtA_2CE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Doritos Check Out Girl&lt;/a&gt; commercial the other day:

Him: I think it&#039;s very fat-negative. It portrays her getting with an ugly guy.
Me: It portrays her as confident, natural, vibrant, sexual and free of societal confines. I also think he&#039;s very attractive.
Him: Our standards of attractiveness obviously vary greatly. I guess next time I want to seduce you I&#039;ll grow muttonchops.
Me: I don&#039;t think it&#039;s in your best interest to tease me for finding non-conventionally handsome men attractive.

That shut him up &lt;i&gt;but good&lt;/i&gt;.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My It&#8217;s Complicated and I were discussing the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWvlDtA_2CE" rel="nofollow">Doritos Check Out Girl</a> commercial the other day:</p>
<p>Him: I think it&#8217;s very fat-negative. It portrays her getting with an ugly guy.<br />
Me: It portrays her as confident, natural, vibrant, sexual and free of societal confines. I also think he&#8217;s very attractive.<br />
Him: Our standards of attractiveness obviously vary greatly. I guess next time I want to seduce you I&#8217;ll grow muttonchops.<br />
Me: I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s in your best interest to tease me for finding non-conventionally handsome men attractive.</p>
<p>That shut him up <i>but good</i>.</p>
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		<title>By: Terra</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2008/03/29/in-which-i-ramble-about-attraction/#comment-100414</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Terra]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This kind of behavior always amazes me.  The people who spend their days cutting others down.

That and the myths about fat women being sad and single.

Not to toot my own horn but I&#039;m pretty much &quot;obese&quot; and I&#039;m never had trouble getting a date.  I&#039;m dating someone closer to my weight at the moment but I often end up dating more fit men.

I&#039;m got a list many women would drool over I thing.  A 6&#039;4&quot; life gaurd, Guy getting a PhD in Mathematics, Biology Masters student who was a forest firefighter in the summers.  

I get approached pretty often for dates by the type of people I actually want to date.  I will occasionally meet someone who likes me but thinks I&#039;d &quot;be a lot cuter skinny&quot;.  I rarely deal with rude men and I&#039;ll give them a piece of my mind when I do.

I wasn&#039;t always so happy but changing the way I look at myself has changed my life.  I&#039;m healthier and more confident even if I&#039;m fat.  I exercise more than most fo my skinny friends and it&#039;s easy because i want to.  Not to look a certain way for someone else but to feel healthy for me.  Its a good feeling and I have to admit it is fun being the at girl on a bicycle that passes the guy in the lycra.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This kind of behavior always amazes me.  The people who spend their days cutting others down.</p>
<p>That and the myths about fat women being sad and single.</p>
<p>Not to toot my own horn but I&#8217;m pretty much &#8220;obese&#8221; and I&#8217;m never had trouble getting a date.  I&#8217;m dating someone closer to my weight at the moment but I often end up dating more fit men.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m got a list many women would drool over I thing.  A 6&#8217;4&#8243; life gaurd, Guy getting a PhD in Mathematics, Biology Masters student who was a forest firefighter in the summers.  </p>
<p>I get approached pretty often for dates by the type of people I actually want to date.  I will occasionally meet someone who likes me but thinks I&#8217;d &#8220;be a lot cuter skinny&#8221;.  I rarely deal with rude men and I&#8217;ll give them a piece of my mind when I do.</p>
<p>I wasn&#8217;t always so happy but changing the way I look at myself has changed my life.  I&#8217;m healthier and more confident even if I&#8217;m fat.  I exercise more than most fo my skinny friends and it&#8217;s easy because i want to.  Not to look a certain way for someone else but to feel healthy for me.  Its a good feeling and I have to admit it is fun being the at girl on a bicycle that passes the guy in the lycra.</p>
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