What is the correlation between my ovaries and my philosophy? I could understand if this were an Odds&Ends and I was drooling over a shirtless Putin. Then my gender might be fair game. But this is a discussion about rationalism, reason, science, and the place metaphysics and nonsense have in the world. It has, in the past, been taken as fact that women are implicitly irrational, emotional, and men are reasonable, practical. I thought we'd gotten past that, that we could now have this discussion without gender become some determining factor in it. And while it's flattering that you appreciate my ability to cut to the chase, I said nothing that, Walt Whitman, a man, didn't say before, and much more eloquently.
I suppose it wasn't very ladylike of me to say "fuck," huh? "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
I could understand if this were an Odds&Ends and I was drooling over a shirtless Putin. Then my gender might be fair game.
Why do you think your gender is the only one allowed to drool over Putin? Well, I don't, but I think of some (male) friends who might... "Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
Yeah. You have "a friend" who might. Uh huh. Ok, Melanchthon. "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
lawd have mercy....
it's always about fucking putin with you, poemless...
this thread has me in tears...can you have an aneurism from laughing too much?
you're much funnier here than in odds and ends....
you guys...i swear ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Yeah. You have "a friend" who might. Uh huh. Ok, Melanchthon.
Mind you, I never hide behind "a friend". Most of my best male friends are gay, but I'm (in their view) desperately straight. Years ago, some of them hoped I would change my mind, but now it's too late. "Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
i am doing a readout on that from what you say here, but only because i know you're female. if i didn't maybe i'd think about it less...
i assume others do the same for all of us, maybe i err that way.
as for walt, you'd be hard put to find a better example of what i believe.
gay or not...lol
please take my next observation with a large pinch of salt...
maybe we're less (more?) macho in yurp, but i find women here, while also having issues americans tend not to have, tend to be less likely to falsely ascribe negative intentions to innocent comments.
maybe you're more on the feminist front line, dunno.
maybe that's just my experience, anecdotal at best.
maybe a reflection of my clueless lack of tact, maybe something about me provokes that in american women.
i was married to one for 15 years.
stupid to generalise i know, so please don't take it wrong, but if you can help me understand the link between my gonads and comments, i hope you'll feel equally free to let me know.
you are hilariously perceptive company and i missed you when you split last time. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
