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Showing Original Post only (View all)Look. He's lonely and here's a good-looking lady throwing herself at him. [View all]
What was he supposed to do?
>> "The man's off in a foreign land and he's lonely and here's a good looking lady throwing herself at him. I mean, he's a man," Robertson said in an interview.
He continued describing Paula Broadwell:
"She is an extremely good looking woman. She is a marathon runner. She runs Iron Man triathlons. So she's out running with him and writing a biography."
"I think the term is 'propinquity.'"<<
http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/11/pat-robertson-on-david-petraeus-affair-hes-a-man-shes-hot/
Yes, I'm being sarcastic. This story actually almost made me spit up my coffee this morning.
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Look. He's lonely and here's a good-looking lady throwing herself at him. [View all]
closeupready
Nov 2012
OP
The worst of men like to hide behind the idea that their behavior is "hard wired"
treestar
Nov 2012
#17
reality, women have affairs almost as much as men. both minority groups. men wired for it. women?
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#32
Judging from what happened to about every other family on my block when I was a kid...
Arugula Latte
Nov 2012
#34
it is pretty consistent with various studies. cheaters like to pretend it is majority or all
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#39
there are actually a couple interesting studies on that also. i read a year or two ago....
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#68
"around 20 percent for men, bit over 15 percent for women""women much better keeping affairs secret"
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#70
I could say the same about beating women. Hey it is the Andrew Dice defense. n/t
Jumping John
Nov 2012
#10
Apes and humans have the same 'problem'. Most other animals do it mainly for procreation,
lumpy
Nov 2012
#15
Then if you are arguing "most of us do think with our dicks" as you say, then you are likewise
hlthe2b
Nov 2012
#19
i get it. all your identity, masculinity is wrapped up in this story. keep telling it...
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#66
turn it around to. the wife was so far away. a good looking man, 6 pack. hey... she is a woman.
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#31
lol. had to throw something in about the looks, cause robertson said something about her ironman
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#40
are you kidding? married 18 yrs and incredibly easy for hubby and i. it really is. for so many
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#41
Yes... women do it, but the difference is they don't blame it on their uncontrollable genitals
hlthe2b
Nov 2012
#75
and there you go. that would be the difference. yes. that is the joke of all this crap. nt
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#76
As I said in another thread, men have been blaming women for their infidelities,
Arkansas Granny
Nov 2012
#14