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The maligned and disparaged former Prime Minister Freundel Stuart spoke recently at a DLP St. Lucy branch meeting. His intervention unleashed a torrent of public debate about whether it was a prudent decision for him to speak. Equally, if it made sense for the branch to have invited him to speak. One has to assume the invitation was approved by the hierarchy of the party. We should recall the ‘challenge’ when the St. Peter branch wanted Caswell Franklyn to speak at a branch meeting during the brief Ronnie Yearwood ‘era’.

It is no secret the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) suffered a humiliating defeat with Stuart at the helm in 2018. Many pundits, including the blogmaster opined that Stuart did Verla Depeiza no favour in 2022 by providing minimal political capital for her to draw on – she also suffered a 30-0 drubbing. It is 2025 and the DLP remains politically stunned and shows little sign of revival in the near term. It is against the foregoing that Stuart attracted a volley of criticism for accepting the invitation to speak at the St. Lucy branch meeting last month.

For those who suggested Stuart should return to his comfort position by courting silence, how should this be interpreted? Unlike those who demonstrate a naiveté by stating the obvious, that is, he has a democratic right to speak – the more politically mature and insightful approach is to add context. Stuart is not a popular politician, he was the Prime Minister who was in charge during a difficult period for the country. What sensible reason could anyone in the DLP offer for injecting Stuart into the affairs of the party in a public way at this time? He could have shared his personal views at a private meeting if the objective was to give insight into the so-called ‘Lost Decade’ to party members. Although a political party in Barbados is nothing more than a private club in Barbados, any internal wrangling will have national implications. It is the government in waiting?

There is no need to be prolix on the matter of Stuart being invited to address party faithful in the glare of the public, it was dealt with exhaustively in this space on other occasions. An interesting wrinkle to the story was former minister Donville Inniss’ strident defence of Stuart’s ‘right’ to speak. Things that make some go hmmmm.

Freundel Stuart to SPEAK!

If the DLP wants to be taken seriously there must be a course correction. Good luck!

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29 responses to “Stuart’s unwelcome return”

  1. Terence Blackett Avatar
    Terence Blackett

    THE LIP SERVICE MERCHANTS WOULD DO WELL 2 ACCEPT THE ERROR OF THEIR WAYZ & SEEK HIGHER GROUND WHEN IT COMES TO THIS WHOLE ISSUE OF GOVERNANCE & THIS INSATIABLE DESIRE 2 GRAB POWER BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY

    Due to genealogical aberrations in our DNA* ( our “DAMN NASTY ANCESTORS” ) had 2 compromise “PRINCIPLE” by selling-OUT* each other for a morsel of stale bread; putrefied offal; a “PIG’s TAIL” with the “ENTRAIL OF THE SAID HOG” ( thought of as a king’s ransom ) when your “ARSE” is hungry!!!

    #NothingHasChanged

    Time may have moved on but the metastasis remains!!!

    We changed clothes but the “FIG LEAF” still exposes our “CORRUPTIBLE NATURE”!!!

    We are of the belief ( BASED ON SPIRITUAL, MENTAL, EMOTIONAL & PHYSIOLOGICAL COLONIZATION* ) that we have somehow escaped the ardours of “GENERATIONAL CURSES” & that past-modernity has given us a “HAND-UP” where we can now compete with our 21st century “SLAVE-MASTERS”, who continue to “HOGTIE” us with such deceptive subterfuge, that frankly, if you believe anything that #PoLIEticians #ReLIEgious & #eCONomic leaders tell you ( COURTING THE NECROTIC PSYCHOLOGY OF GOOD FAITH ) – then insalubriously, the “MASSES” are being “SOLD A PIG IN A BAG”!!!

    MONEY IS NOT THE GREAT LEVELLER – DEATH IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    All men are exactly the same “CARDBOARD BOX” when the “ANGEL OF DEATH” says: #ItsYourTime & “DARE ANY BASTERD” argue that he needs more time “UNLESS”, he has the “PULLING POWER” OF #KingHezekiah!!!

    The so-called “BRIGHT LIGHTS” in our societies believe they have the answers, but when confronted with “CLANDESTINE CHALLENGES BEYOND THEIR CONTROL” – they winch in abject frustration – knowing that they are “MERE MORTALS” & their “SHYTE DOES REALLY STINK”!!!

    CUNTRIES* in the Caribbean now believe that because they are finding so-called natural resources which can literally be unearthed everywhere across the planet – that somehow it will make their lives “RICHER” & more meaningful, ( YET THEY CARE PRECIOUS LITTLE FOR THE POOR & NEEDY ) – offering the “CRUMBS” that fall from their tables of “CORRUPTION, AVARICE & VICE”!!!

    First, we heard that good ‘ole Guyana has hit “BLACK GOLD”, which for all intents & purposes will NOT* make a shred of difference 2 the average poor person in that vast cuntry – now followed by “JAM_TOWN” which is being reported has also struck “B-GOLD” as well…

    I am sure that BIM* will be soon making their own announcement as to what they have found offshore as well, but then the “FIGHT” begins for who will “CONTROL” the larva flow…

    LET THE NASTY BASTERDS FIGHT AMONGST THEMSELVES – FOR WHERE THEY ARE ALL GOING, NO ONE TAKES ANYTHING WITH ‘EM ( EXCEPT THEY BE PHAROAHS )

    #FightOnGUYS*

    #SilenceOfTheLambs

  2. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Terrence Blackett “…FOR WHERE THEY ARE ALL GOING…”

    CORRECTION: For where WE are all going, including Terrence Blackett

  3. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    Even though Stuart has the right to speak, he is still a public figure, and even while speaking at a branch meeting may be seen as an inner meeting, the media will of course report on it, especially so as he speaks so infrequently in public. Donville’s decision to jump in did not make things any better.

    What the DLP. not only Stuart should have done a long time ago was to apologize to the rank and file of the party and to the electorate of Barbados for their poor performance while they were the governing party. If an apology has been made perhaps I have forgotten it, and I would be thankful if someone would remind me.

    After the apology the DLP MUST settled their internal wrangling, and come to the people with a clear leader and some programs and policies attractive, NOT to the DLP leadership and party members, but to the electorate of Barbados.

    And Donville should really sit down and shut up.

    I am as usual:

    Never a B.
    Never a D.

  4. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Steupsss!
    Leave Stuart and the DLP alone DO!!

    They have NO MORE role in local politics than BU or the PDP.

    Thorne is just a disgruntled BLP who refused to walk away like Payne, Bostic, Clarke, Browne, King, Hinkson, and Maria did… presumably having shown the guts to tell the Empress about her missing dress.
    It is now OBVIOUS that he was UNDERUTILIZED in the damn BLP…

    Froon, Stinkliar, Dumbville and the other DLP dummies were judged and found wanting MANY TIME OVER now, by the electorate, …and yet some seem to expect them to step up to some performance plate….

    They should ALL follow the example of Kellman, Boyce and the others who seem to have moved to underground addresses…. and BU should STOP focusing on the DLP any more than we focus on the Adamson fellow who sell socks.

    SPOT THE LIGHT ON THE CURRENT JOKERS who are actually driving the Titanic.

    Bushie is CONVINCED that it is the BLP’s PR machinery that keeps bringing up the DLP’s incompetence – in their efforts to DISTRACT US from the present IDIOCIES that clearly have NOT benefited from the DLP’s incompetence.

    Froon shiite!!!
    What the Hell is going on with the BL&P rate case? Why are we still paying interim rates?
    Where is the Energy policy after 6 years of the 10 year period?
    Where is the damn CONSTITUTION?
    Where are the promised REPORTS… on HOPE, NIS, Four Seasons, BAMC?
    What is the plan for CRIME? …for the judiciary …for education …for water ?
    Where is agriculture headed?

    What DLP what??!!
    What a damned place!

  5. AirBourne Avatar
    AirBourne

    If the DLP is to regain any credibility, it cannot be with the usual suspects. They have made it clear they accept no blame nor responsibility for creating the vacuum to allow a repeated RedWash. Right now is the best time for a genuine Minority Opposition to come forward and offer cohesive strategies why they deserve a chance. Freundel needs to leave out public speaking and perhaps avoid any memoirs, his delusion is classic Dunning-Kruger (essentially Cognitive Dissonance)!

    Ryan Walters can do better than he is now if he would look to acquire new candidates, preferably full Barbadian. Even if it was Dipper who created the gap for Commonwealth or CARICOM parliamentarians.

    Unwillingness to change by DLP or any potential new Opposition will prove why some people are contemplating a Third term despite saying the reverse from 2010

    https://is.gd/246WhatsApp

  6. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Hark! The political ghosts still roam the earth!

    “Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters!”

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  7. David Avatar
    David

    @Bush Tea

    Unfortunately you will not be able to compartmentalize the issues as you suggest. We can be as strident as you want about missteps of the BLP, we cannot neglect the political opposition. Who wants to vote for the DLP in its current state? Unfortunately because of a lack of citizen participation in the system of government we practice, a strong opposition is an imperative.

  8. David Avatar
    David

    A good comment @simplesimon.

  9. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    David

    It’s obvious Froon’s re-emergence increased the DLP’s problems rather than reviving its fortunes.

    Seems as though the DEMS do not have any feasible, coherent political strategy and are perhaps associating themselves with, and taking advice from the wrong individuals.

    We’re complaining about Froon and Donville from the ‘old guard,’ talking. Yet there is a YouTube channel featuring Glyne Murray (a disgruntled BEE), Marcia Weekes and other ‘old guard’ members, including Maxine McClean and Haynesley Benn.

    Apparently, their only strategy seems to be marching every other week.

    Some time during August 2024, Thorne announced his ‘shadow Cabinet,’ which I understand was subsequently replaced with a Research and Policy Teams to speak on national matters.
    Unless I missed them if reported by the media, I’m yet to hear any alternative, progressive, innovative policy initiatives from its members.

    Their criticisms aren’t even convincing.

    After every annual conference since the 2018 general elections, we’re told about the overwhelming number of enthusiastic Barbadians who joined the party….. numbers that did not correspond with votes their candidates received during the 2020 St. George North by-election; 2022 general election, and as evidenced by the 468 votes Felicia Dujon received in the recent St. James North by-election.

    Even the political scientists whose analyses usually favour the party, have now become critical of them.

    The DLP needs a political strategist with Hartley Henry’s experience.

  10. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @SS
    Apology yes. Admission of ‘poor performance’ nevah.
    Look at the age of the audience? Older, true blue Dems. They were ‘glorious years’.

  11. David Avatar
    David

    @Artax

    We can agree the party needs a reboot to be sure. In the meantime- in the land of the blind a one eye woman can be queen.

  12. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    If the BLP has the support of the “Rich” they will continue to win.

    Money buys fridges. 26 to 4 next election.

  13. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Artax June 11, 2025 at 9:59 am “…there is a YouTube channel featuring Glyne Murray (a disgruntled BEE), Marcia Weekes and other ‘old guard’ members, including Maxine McClean and Haynesley Benn.

    Them old people [some of them old, old] need to sit down and shut up too.

  14. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Hants June 11, 2025 at 12:25 pm “If the BLP has the support of the “Rich” they will continue to win. Money buys fridges. 26 to 4 next election.”

    How does one go about getting goodies from a political party? None of them ever offer me anything. What am I doing wrong?

    How can I do better?

  15. David Avatar
    David

    @Hants

    Your last comment has nothing to do with an incompetent political opposition fueled by citizens of integrity unwilling to serve.

  16. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @NorthernObserver June 11, 2025 at 11:56 am “@SSApology yes. Admission of ‘poor performance’ nevah. Look at the age of the audience? Older, true blue Dems. They were ‘glorious years’.”

    It would have been “glorious” for me too, if I lived in a government housing unit [Ilaro Court] transportation and housekeeping and security provided, and a nice, nice pension for the rest of my life, and a state funeral paid for by the over burdened taxpayers when the time comes for me to go the other side.

    So of course it was glorious for Freundel, the rest of us scrunted.

  17. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    David

    There are so many issues the DLP could exploit to their advantage…… other than reports on various government entities…… many, if not ALL, of which SPAN SUCCESSIVE BLP and DLP administrations.

    The reality is, there aren’t any significant political, philosophical or ideological differences between the BLP and DLP.

    As it relates to housing, for example, the DEMS can’t, in all seriousness criticise HOPE, when similar financial shenanigans were also uncovered in their version, HELP (Housing Every Last Person).

    The BEES criticised the DEMS for partnering with Maloney on the Villages at Coverley housing project, and when elected to office, they went into a SIMILAR partnership with him in a housing project called, Atlantic Breeze.
    Ironically, people expressed similar complaints about the houses they purchased from BOTH projects.

    Both political parties have struggled to address the crime situation, whether in office or conceptualise alternative plans whilst in opposition.
    The only solution from both sides is demanding their opponent’s Attorney General to resign.

    They give a new meaning to the term, ‘government is a continuum.’ In other words, ‘the more the government changes, the more things remain the same.’

  18. David Avatar
    David

    A big issue for the DEMS is that Thorne won the mantle of leadership due to him being the only sitting member once accepted into the party. His standing was not achieved organically. The mistake the party made was not understanding that once he was given membership they had to accept he was the man. All of the issues being experienced now stem from bad handling of his membership to the party. There has been irreparable harm done.

  19. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    “This means that even if he had taken Bushie’s foolish advice”

    Do you know him personally / i.e. to give him this advice

    or do you think he might be swayed by comments from the underground

    Stuart had the unpleasant job of speaking at DLP’s by-election loss post mortem
    and pronounced that they were alive and not dead despite all the rumours

    .. so according to him they are not gone and not forgotten
    despite underground saying they were gone and forgotten,
    which is as bad as saying they are not gone and forgotten

    Bum Ball

  20. David Avatar
    David

    @Bush Tea

    Thorne doesn’t have the brand or body of work to have successfully achieved what you suggested. Mottley post OSA has crowded out the political space. It’s looking like for the foreseeable future.

  21. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    Mia may have “crowded out the political space”.
    However, I hope she will revise her ambition, and study carefully the ramifications of turning Barbados into a multicultural society.

    I also would ask her to be cautious when dealing with those racist Latino countries. Some of you may have noticed that they are entering Barbados as construction workers. Do we really want these people living amongst us?

    Go and study there attitudes towards their Afro populations within South America.

    https://www.npr.org/2022/10/14/1129001659/la-city-council-scandal-highlights-the-racial-fault-lines-of-a-very-diverse-city

  22. David Avatar
    David

    62-0: the electoral challenge

    FOLLOWING THE EXPECTED VICTORY by the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) in the May 21 St James North by-election, attention has refocused on the future prospects of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP).

    In popular consciousness, “success” or “relevance” of political parties is measured in electoral terms. Thus, given the successive 2018 and 2022 30-0 General Election defeats of the DLP as well as in by-elections in St George North and St James North, the DLP appears to be fighting for its life. To the voter, the score is now 62-0.

    In this scenario, the BLP leader Mia Amor Mottley appears to be fully aware that one possible way of permanently defeating the DLP is by “death by a thousand small electoral cuts”, and so she is milking by-elections in key BLP safe seats to reinforce public perceptions of the DLP as unelectable.

    It is clear, therefore, that the immediate existential threat facing the DLP is an electoral one. Ordinarily, elections are welcomed by oppositions since they offer opportunities for political resurgence. When however, elections loom like death sentences, destructive tendencies take root inclusive of leadership challenges, factionalism, disillusionment, withdrawals and eventual collapse.

    What then is the solution for an entrenched party like the DLP? The good news is that an existential crisis rooted in electoral defeats is not difficult to overcome. The solution is to win a seat.

    Leadership contests

    Ironically, however, such a conclusion may compound the problem since “winning elections” becomes everything. This tendency gives rise to senseless leadership contests and internal fragmentation. The current leadership of the DLP might be aware of this since the June 6 edition of the DLP’s party organ spent much time excoriating the “Barbadian oxymoron” of the “political scientists” and the local media who “have concentrated on a DLP that has limited feet in the halls of power while allowing the BLP to act with impunity”. Electoral defeat is merely an external symptom of an internal disease. The DLP’s electoral relevance will emerge when it is able to fashion a viable alternative programme of change, growth and advancement for Barbados, relevant to the 21st Century but consistent with its founding social-democratic principles. This programme must eclipse the BLP’s rather than offering small technical responses to it. This calls for clear sighted and philosophically grounded political leadership, that can negate any claims to superior leadership by Mottley. Without this, the DLP continues to falter.

    An example may suffice: Mottley has positioned herself as a global third world champion. Her efforts in that regard bore recent fruit by attracting the regional headquarters of the Afreximbank, through a land grant. Some misguided citizens protested. Instead of outshining Mottley’s pan-Africanism, the Opposition Leader issued a tepid comment sympathetic to the protesters. Ball dropped in slips.

    The DLP should not put the electoral carriage, before the philosophical horse.

    Tennyson Joseph is Associate Professor of Political Science at North Carolina Central University. Email tjoe2008@live.com

    Source: Nation

  23. David Avatar
    David

    @Raw Bake

    A strong opposition is one that nurtures credibility with the public and is accepted as a strong option as a government in waiting.

  24. Raw Bake Avatar
    Raw Bake

    @David

    Fair enough.
    Therefore, as I have said earlier, the DLP and the other parties should not waste their time contesting elections in the near future. At the moment, none of them meet the aforementioned requirements.

    We have a government that saw it fit to write off debt owed to the workers/pensioners of Barbados. This same government then increased the pensionable age while also increasing the number of contributions needed to qualify for a pension.

    Do we know the DLP’s or any of the other so-called 3rd parties position with regards to that NIS write-off and reforms? That is an issue that would have been exploited by every other opposition party on the planet except those in Barbados.

    Now if the masses are as happy and contented after that assault as the influencers say they are, then the opposition parties can be excused for not trying to change the narrative.

    BTW,
    Not every good opposition voice need to be in parliament.

  25. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Well said @ Raw Bake

  26. Lorenzo Avatar
    Lorenzo

    Lorenzo
    David Bu,the problem with the gems is the they do not listen.All they do is criticize without any workable solutions. The other major problem is the current leader Mr Thorne.He comes over in my view as arrogant without any great political accomplishment a la Mr Thompson.Remember his bus fare and lunch money talk.Mr Thorne lost twice as a dem.In fact he only won 8n my view on the coat tails of Ms Mottley.I am of the view he will lose wherever he turns up and will bury the gems with him.His ten hour speeches and locking out of disgruntled gems will not help him in my view.Mr Thorne needs to cut out the arrogance.

  27. David Avatar
    David

    @Lorenzo

    We do not often agree but as Richie opined, perception in politics is everything. It is also unfortunate Thorne is struggling with stamping his authority on a constituency as LOO. The residents of CHS are not convinced he will be returning, the doubt being created is not helping the party.

  28. David Avatar
    David

    Time to fix the bigger problems

    by SIR ERROL R. WALROND THE ANNOUNCEMENT that the Prime Minister will seek a third term in office, brought to mind the extraordinary benefits that members of parliament receive in terms of full pension rights after two terms in parliament.

    This of course does not apply to our Prime Minister who has long met that qualification and who is entitled to the pension of the prime minister after day one in that office. It does apply however, to a substantial number of MPs shepherded into office with the first “clean sweep”. It is hard to contemplate any other employment where once gained any time after the age of 18 years, one can achieve full pension status after eight years on the job irrespective of any objective achievement.

    The recent by-election in which a candidate for a party which took the country into independence, and had been in power for at least half of that time since then, lost her deposit should be cause for some introspection. This followed a campaign which on reading the press can best be described as pothole and empty pot politics.

    Whilst one recognises the daily threat to life and limb of potholes which appear to be now built into the contract for new roads, surely major parties should be expressing a philosophy for the country going forward. A philosophy that seeks to have both short-term and preventive ideas dealing with the fundamental problems facing the country. A stance that it should be my turn again soon is not a way forward, it is the stand of self-satisfied persons who have good pensions behind them or those hoping to board that gravy train.

    Lack of recognition

    The problems are not difficult to identify, the resort to crime by those left behind in our schooling and economic system; the overcrowded roads fuelled by successive governments’ gluttony on taxes gained by the unrestricted import of vehicles and no means of disposal of those beyond repair; a wilful lack of recognition of demographic trends in the country and the advancement of unrealistic band-aids when these stare them in the face; and last but not least that the wealth gained in the country not being retained in part for the sustainable development of the country, a pattern akin to the worse periods of our history.

    Barring acts of ‘God’ the Prime Minister will have her third term in just over a year’s time when the “pensionable age” would have been met for all those who sat in parliament for the two terms; but there is no need to despair lest she becomes the autocrat that some justifiably fear.

    The Prime Minister has demonstrated on the world stage that she knows the dangers of autocracy both historically and contemporaneously, surely she would not want to spoil that image at home. What she is unlikely to overcome is the inability at succession planning that has been the hallmark of every Caribbean political leader living or dead. Political parties and their leaders need to articulate a political philosophy that can be debated outside the cut and thrust of political campaigns. The revolution of freesecondary education was one such philosophy which was transformative, in spite of being initially opposed as “we can’t afford it”, the proper answer to that was of course “how can any self-respecting country not afford it”.

    Overcrowded roads

    In my opinion, the philosophical questions that should be raised at this time is how we can ensure that no one is left behind to feel that their only resort is to crime; and how can we maintain an island attractive to tourists if the tranquility of the island is overcome by overcrowded roads and an inability to dispose of derelict vehicles and other larger items of household garbage.

    Leaving the solution of those two fundamental issues to “market” solutions has and will be a disaster, for not every problem can be solved by a for profit venture, such “ventures” will undoubtedly come after Government has built the basic infrastructure on which for-profits thrive.

    Our overcrowded roads have not come about by happen stance; indeed, a previous Government had pronounced a campaign slogan of a “graduate in every household, and a car for every house”.

    One a most laudable objective, the other a most disastrous stance borne out of successive governments’ gluttony for import taxes on vehicles. No doubt the economists had pointed out that every graduate in a household came at a cost that had to be balanced by increased tax revenue.

    What a convenient popular way of raising taxes indirectly “a car for every household”; not a thought for traffic jams and lost productivity, not a thought for what to do with the increased number of vehicles that would become beyond repair, not a thought for the impossibility of emergency vehicles reaching households on fire, or sick persons in narrow gaps that were only designed for foot traffic, or indeed the collection of household garbage from those homes.

    We now have a situation where public transport cannot be effective as they become part of the vehicles on the road contributing to the traffic chaos so easily created by poor policy. We have a situation where some households dispose of large household items in the dead of night in our gullies for they know they will never have them collected from their neighbourhood.

    The people themselves have to rise above only begging a MP for a job and for the potholes to be fixed, and demand that political aspirants address the other fundamental issues they face, such as comprehensive garbage collection, the frustrations and risks of overcrowded roads and last but not least the supervision of young children who would otherwise have to go to unsupervised homes after school.

    Source: Nation

  29. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    I hesitate to “join the discussion” as it is not clear if my silly feminine contribution will “make a difference”.

    Just Sunday before last, we enthused over “cultural practitioner” Adrian Green’s column, in which he offered his opinions as to why we are where we are in this former slave colony.

    Culture, he is always at pains to point out, is not just dancing and singing, drawing and painting, writing, acting, photographing and filming, crafting and cooking – creating works of art. Culture, he reminds, is a way of life. A way of life is derived from our roots, our outside influences, our history. And the history of the majority of us one of the unique chattel slavery experience, its mass transportation, its deliberate disconnect from our roots etc. Logic suggests to me that there must have been a great impact on the evolution of our culture, our thinking, our way of life.

    And yet, fewer than seven days after proclaiming Adrian’s offering a “great” job, the same commenter decried “silly explanations” as to why we are where we are. Strange, when all that was being discussed emanated from the “great” job Adrian had done within the confines of a column. This commenter now wants to skip to the main event – the orgasmic solutions.

    Ah! The differences between the typical male and the typical female of the species! Women tend to talk things through, while men are wont to “skip to the solutions”, without the tedious process of listening to her coming to her own conclusions. But mental health therapists and psychologists would use the feminine approach!

    It is well-documented that the frustrations of women with the typical impatience of men extend beyond the bedroom. For chrissake, we were meant to complement each other! Let us look for short-term alleviation of symptoms, yes, but let us also look to long-term “curing” of the disease! And who would dispute that it is a disease of the mind?

    How the hell are we to get the general populace to a place of thinking in the long-term with long-term solutions without talking through the problems together? Discovering the root of the problem is the first step to the cure.

    “Arm the police!” sang one cultural “ambassadoric” male of the species, many decades ago. “Violence will cease.” 🤔
    Ppl
    Ahem!

    I’m going with Adrian. And for longer than six days. That is one man who has the patience for the process. 😉

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