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Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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My Shadow wrote: | Don't you consider men to be persons just like you are ? |
Do you consider perverts to be persons just like you are? What about maniacs? What about homicidal hermaphrodites? Are they persons just like you are? And what about fetuses?
a.) Are they people?
b.) Are they just like perverted, maniacal, homicidal, hermaphroditic you? |
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Penelope
Joined: 23 Nov 2003 Posts: 143
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Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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Guest - don't be so contrary. I feel like I've entered into a - how many angels on the head of a pin - debate. _________________ Blockades built, by the ages, can't keep Tigers in their cages. |
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Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 11:31 pm Post subject: Feel free, isn't that the idea? |
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Penelope wrote: | Guest - don't be so contrary. I feel like I've entered into a - how many angels on the head of a pin - debate. |
I can be as "Mary, Mary quite contrary, Michael Jackson is a fairy" as I like. I'm just speaking my mind; should I mind my speech? |
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Penelope
Joined: 23 Nov 2003 Posts: 143
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Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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- back atcha!
_________________ Blockades built, by the ages, can't keep Tigers in their cages. |
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Sue
Joined: 14 Oct 2003 Posts: 200 Location: London England
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 12:57 am Post subject: |
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it's a feminist myth to consider men different persons from women
we are different as individuals and gender disparity is superficial but is what makes the male/female relationships interesting
this is what I find |
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Penelope
Joined: 23 Nov 2003 Posts: 143
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 1:16 am Post subject: |
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Well, I'm not a feminist. My opinions on the differences are based on forty years of working and living with men. We don't think the same way as far as I can tell. I'm not knocking it and it's a generalization but I don't reach conclusions in the same manner as they do. I believe it's more about ancient things than modern day trappings. _________________ Blockades built, by the ages, can't keep Tigers in their cages. |
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Sue
Joined: 14 Oct 2003 Posts: 200 Location: London England
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 2:11 am Post subject: |
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interesting
but I was brought up lived and worked in very male environments too and I would judge we are of similar age and yes I agree there are gender differences but these are superficial - isn't that what keeps men and women interested in each ?
perhaps our differing views are more to do with are own different personalities as individuals than the great male /female divide
anyway I'm off to work now (this is the an experience that both both men and women have to face and I suspect with similar feelings )
have a good day |
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Penelope
Joined: 23 Nov 2003 Posts: 143
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 2:28 am Post subject: |
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Could be Sue. I don't know. I'm 53 by the way. What had the most impact on me was my upbringing. Being the only girl after my sister drowned and being the youngest did have some perks for sure. My parents were free thinking socialists who took pains on promoting equality which altered radically when I reached my teens. It was too late for them to impose restrictions on me then.
When I lived in the wilderness, I had to learn skills which make urban living seem boring.
When I worked as a camp cook in a logging camp I learned more about improvising.
Later in life, I spent five years as a Union leader which opened the door to a tremendous barrage of sexism from management and the membership. None of them knew that I'd worked as the only woman at a sawmill where one of the male workers tried to kill me by violating safety practices. Anything they tossed at me paled in comparison.
I've spent most of my life taking care of not only my own affairs but family ones too. My choice but only because I wanted to be sure it got done.
Anyways, enough about that. I find that everyone has their weaknesses and strengths. Just different ways of putting their ideas forward and resolving problems. We all have to keep going down the road and only the lucky ones have it easy. _________________ Blockades built, by the ages, can't keep Tigers in their cages. |
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Sue
Joined: 14 Oct 2003 Posts: 200 Location: London England
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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Pen
and men have been to blame for the misery that has been your life ???? - I'm making a big assumption here but the cv above doesn't sound like you have had a lot of laughs - at what point have you taken responsibility for your life ?
getting back to the male/female thing the place were it is most obvious that we are all individuals is on the internet a place were we can be anyone we like and if you are dealing with people with non-gender specific nicknames it's very difficult to tell the men from the women don't you find ? |
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Penelope
Joined: 23 Nov 2003 Posts: 143
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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You do make a lot of assumptions Sue. I think I'll just leave you to them. _________________ Blockades built, by the ages, can't keep Tigers in their cages. |
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Fatguy
Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 291 Location: The Internet
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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Just poking my nose in here ladies..... Hummm.....seems that if you are a man.....better keep your distance. I always wonder about the guys that "Volunteer" to sit in the audience of the "Opera" show.
Maurice |
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My Shadow Guest
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Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 5:49 am Post subject: Re: A haiku lesson for Shadow et al |
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Penelope wrote: | 4 - haikus do not use capital letters unless it's a month which is sort of okay but can be frowned upon. |
This must be a recent rule, as in Japanese writing, there are no capitals AFAIK.
Probably made up especially for foreigners, writing in other languages. |
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Zahava
Joined: 06 Feb 2004 Posts: 18
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Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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I know this is bad, but I couldn't help myself
There once was a man from Uranus
Who got a lamp stuck up his anus
He tried and he tried
But it could not be plied
Still, the light of his smile
Made him famous |
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My Shadow Guest
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Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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Good - bad - what does it
Mean anyway, is it not
Like the moon itself ? |
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My Shadow Guest
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Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 11:18 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, that last one was a poor specimen, I know. |
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