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When I first began reading this thread, about two posts in, I thought "Awesome, an intellectual debate on an interesting topic!!!" but then the third post on out, things got WAY too emotional. When making valid arguments, oh my intellectual ladies, please remember that AGE and SPELLING/GRAMMAR really are irrelevant to the conversation. Just bringing those points about "you must be under 20 years old" or laughing at someone's grammar just disgusts me. It is completely immature and, more importantly, IRRELEVANT... not to mention that there were grammar errors in the posts in some of those who were laughing about the poor grammar of another post. Unless you are the queen or lord of grammar, you really have no right to talk... unless of course you are speaking from an emotional level, which it is clear happened throughout this thread. How old someone is, how they talk, and/or write is very irrelevant to what they know, as much as you'd like to think it is. My brother has a speech impediment and my brother, mother, and father (yes, I am surrounded!) could not spell even if their lives depended on it. But my mother is so intelligent on the topic of health, and my father and brother are AMAZING engineers, brilliant people leading projects at their workplaces.

Just remember that people have the right to present opposing opinions, and, in your rebuttal, you SHOULD NOT get defensive. You take the logic right out of the debate when you do so. Present your opinions non-emotionally, please, as I know you intelligent women are fully capable of doing.

And EricaB it is not all about "winning" (although with the emotions volleyed in the thread it did come off that way), but rather it is an intellectual debate. Doesn't anyone appreciate these discussions anymore? I LOVE them!

I'm just... disappointed that there was an opportunity for an intellectual debate and you estrogen-hot ladies blew it. But I guess it makes sense, most of us are on extra hormones here