<p>Wow! I know we all end up falling into Cobrat’s trap, but I wish you’d see that you give him his raison d’être by answering his continuous attempts to irritate. You are offering the yin he needs for his yang. </p>
<p>He is incorrigible. </p>
<p>Yup - “we” ! A card-carrying member of the “its so hard to resist” club. </p>
<p>I have to agree. I can’t even count how many threads I have participated in that have eventually dissolved into bickering with or poking fun at Cobrat. It’s getting old. Can’t we just ignore the posters that get under our skin? </p>
<p>Its like a pesky gnat flying around your head… its annoying and hard not to swat at at times.</p>
<p>Happy Chanukah!</p>
<p>You all know about the ignore function, right?</p>
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YES! to all three of the above quotes. There are two posters in particular who immediately jump on cobrat just about every time he posts. It’s as if they are on the lookout for his posts to do just that. The rest of us notice, so I wish they would cut it out. Maybe someone with psychological training could help these posters understand a bit about why they might be continuing to do this bullying?</p>
<p>For the record, xiggi is as active at cobrat commenting as the others. And then we can count on the scolders who hypocritically enter to critically wag their fingers and lecture to comment on a poster or posters rather than to follow their own advice and ignore. Its no different. And so it goes. So again, we all allow one poster to affect the rest and derail the thread. What say we get back to topic?</p>
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There is also what I call the “eyeglide.”</p>
<p>But yes, we should return to the vital topic of a person who dates a dummy.</p>
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that’s a whole other thread!</p>
<p>I dated a lot of dummies in my day. Sadly, they were made of flesh and blood.</p>
<p>John is quite the Sugar Daddy to Jackie!</p>
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<p>Welcome to the club…</p>
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Mom2colleges makes some very good points in this statement. “Acting like something is normal does not make it normal”. Exactly. This isn’t someone who has a fetish or a preference. To me, this is someone who has some deep issues that are impacting him greatly. Just because nobody is hurt or maimed from it, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t warrant intervention. IMO anyway.</p>
<p>If it is “a fetish or a preference” I would think it is way weirder than if it is a coping response to some mental illness or developmental difference that make successful conventional relationships unlikely. I guess I’m just assuming that it is the latter. At any rate, to intervene might be like pulling the plug on a guy who’s been living in the matrix. He might see reality but he might not be able to handle reality. </p>
<p>Do we know what he does for a living? I’m trying to picture what kind of career this person has and whether he’s a stable employee with a long work-history.</p>
<p>What he does in his private life isnt really anyones business if its not affecting or hurting anyone else</p>
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<p>Bit of a slippery slope isn’t it? Guy engages in some abnormal behavior, isn’t looking to harm anyone else, and somebody must stop him for his own sake? </p>
<p>I guess I wasn’t suggesting that someone stop him. I was really just thinking out loud (or in type, I guess) and I understand that unless someone is getting hurt it isn’t anyone’s business but it just occurs to me that he makes it people’s business when he goes on national TV or goes out in public demonstrating all kinds of PDA with a plastic woman. Does he even recognize that this is abnormal?
If he was your brother or your child and he had this “relationship” would you want to intervene? Would you shrug it off and say it’s none of my business? </p>
<p>Intervene how? Take it away? </p>