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"Chelsea Handler announced her breakup with fellow comedian Jo Koy by claiming, “This is not an ending but another beginning. It is a comfort to know that I am still in love and love this man the way the sun loves the moon and the moon loves the sun.” https://www.thecut.com/2023/06/celebrity-divorces-breakups-in-2023.html

Good analogy. The sun regularly heats half the moon to boiling heat (if the moon had any atmosphere) and the other half to subfreezing cold, showers it with hard x-rays, gamma rays, solar wind, and other radiation - which the Van Allen belts protect the earth from, and the moon just sits there and takes it. I'm sure she did a good job in thinking this out, lol.

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Aw,that’s really really good. Anyway, did you know women football players don’t get paid the same as their male counterparts,that’s coming up after the break. 🐇🐇🐇🐇

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Re: suicide, we all know men take their lives more often, tragically, but fewer people know there are sex differences here, too. Women are more likely to self-harm, than men, and 90% of anorexics are female, of whom 1/3 die, either frron the effects of the illness or by suicide. Also, women are far more likely to “fail”; when they attempt suicide. Wonder if Caitlin writes about all this, but J won’t find out: having slogged through the extracts in The Times, I know I won’t be buying the book.

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Good points Anna

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Both highly annoying women in my view - and I’m just a woman. My dad didn’t talk for years. We loved him. He lived in a family of 8 women, so he couldn’t get a word in for his whole life, obvs. But not one of us would condone the use of the word ‘willy’. Good one to debate on my ‘Sisters’ WhatsApp group though...

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A family of 8 women? He can't have had a man cave. He must have had a man bomb shelter.

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4 sisters, 4 daughters. He had a laundry cupboard and a banjo and a dog. He was a very happy man.

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Talk is for the kitchen.

Hunting is not for talking

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Women do not understand how men process emotions. Stop forcing men to talk. Let them be with other men doing things that give them mastery and agency.

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Excellent.

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Thanks Gregory!

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A banger

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Thanks Rob!

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The dog reference reminded me of the old joke, that women want a man like a Golden Retriever: good looking, attentive and obedient, and always happy to see you. Not entirely true obviously, but the impression you get from watching sitcoms.

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Ps - they are actually my ‘Sisters’

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Thanks Søren!

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We've all been there, king

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