http://blogs.personallifemedia.com/sex-love-intimacy/2008/05/29/magic-words/ Chip August helps you enrich and enhance your most important relationship. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:33:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://blogs.personallifemedia.com/sex-love-intimacy/2008/05/29/magic-words/#comment-310 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:36:32 +0000 http://blogs.personallifemedia.com/sex-love-intimacy/2008/05/29/magic-words/#comment-310 Please explain how 'I'm sorry I hurt your feelings' doesn't excuse, disempower, and otherwise encourage a woman to not be responsible for her own feelings? Likewise the 'Hero' story; what you and Alison didn't mention was that this myth requires the 'helpless maiden'. A man can be a hero only so long as the woman remains helpless, and perhaps, sexually ignorant or unconscious. After a while she gets tired of being powerless; then who's fault is it that she experiences herself that way? Please explain how ‘I’m sorry I hurt your feelings’ doesn’t excuse, disempower, and otherwise encourage a woman to not be responsible for her own feelings? Likewise the ‘Hero’ story; what you and Alison didn’t mention was that this myth requires the ‘helpless maiden’. A man can be a hero only so long as the woman remains helpless, and perhaps, sexually ignorant or unconscious. After a while she gets tired of being powerless; then who’s fault is it that she experiences herself that way?

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