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Awomen

roly poly

“No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

njc wrote:

... perhaps I should rest my case?

Considering you have yet to present it, that seems a little anticlimactic.

fanny! (price.)

... the Professor, finding that the learned and mysterious method left him rather at the mercy of an enemy slightly deficient in scruples...

Or her.

soul train!

I rest my case.

njc wrote:

I did share a particular opinion: That part of the masculine/feminine divide is a difference in how men and women manage their personal boundaries.  You dismissed it, without counter-argument, without exploration, without asking what in thunder I meant by it.

You assume I dismissed it. I countered. Clearly.

- Sincerely, SHE. (The better pronoun)

Which you selfishly keep to yourselves, while we males are forced to share smile

Aw! You can use our pronoun!! It is grievously underused! Please, with my compliments!

Ants in your pants over that conversation template of yours again, njc? You're such a hall monitor! lol

If you want to have a serious discussion about the masculine/feminine divide, as you call it, have one. Say what's on your mind! No one is stopping you? I'm still waiting around for you to say something intelligent on this topic, actually. 

If I feel like contributing -- at length, in a one-liner, in mild humor, in dismissal -- I shall do it. If I feel like rolling my eyes and moving on and saying nothing, I shall do it. (Another violation of your conversation etiquette, as I recall!)

It's a lot safer to play the forum police than share a point of view, njc, but I encourage you to try to hold onto your perspective long enough to actually share it, rather than setting it aside to complain about the construction of someone else's remarks and how their forum etiquette makes it IMPOSSIBLE for you to share your own viewpoint, over and over. Other people's forum etiquette has no bearing on your own viewpoint. Try to stay on topic! Take a chance! Speak your mind! Eyes on your own paper! Be an author not an editor! And such. IMPRESS US WITH YOUR THOUGHTS.

A refusal to meet and discuss at a common point is one of the essences of polarization.

That noise you hear in the background is the Feminist Outrage and Vendetta Engine firing up.

You might want to TRY to be a little more consistent in your remarks going forward. The above is rather jarring. But there's time to work it out. Jump in!

- Sincerely, SHE. (The better pronoun.)

A gravy boat!

Janet (AJ) Reid wrote:

Maybe we will read a book written by an author one day rather than a book written by a woman, man, or *insert any other description here that has nothing to do with writing*. Maybe. One day soon.

If this was Facebook I'd hit the "like" button. smile

Mariana Reuter wrote:

"He" been used as the generic pronoun for ages. It's a kinda common place.

SO IS THE COMMON COLD?

njc wrote:

Try this: women have a far greater need than men to control AND adjust AND manage their boundaries than men have.

I have to agree with this. History is filled with gentlemen shaking hands over border disputes and tipping their top hats.

A.T.Schlesinger wrote:

corra: TL/DR

My fault! I assumed you had an attention span!

Here's the abstract:

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https://i.ytimg.com/vi/J7w3tQwxyVQ/hqdefault.jpg

It's a picture puzzle! For the reading impaired.

All the best. smile

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lol

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Corripe Cervisiam! (Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?) tongue

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Dill Carver wrote:

And a GREAT twist in the tail. Totally worth the read for that ending.

http://wonderopolis.org/wp-content/uploads//2014/02/dreamstime_xl_13974528-custom.jpg

smile

Tace! tongue

"Strike up the band and make the fireflies dance, silver moon's sparkling."

One of George Eliot's favorite writers was George Sand (Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin). I imagine she took that name because it was the pseudonym of one of her favorite writers. smile Currer Bell could be either a male or a female name. When I say "that's the way she'd have preferred it," I don't mean I think she'd have preferred to continue to be mistaken for a male writer. I mean I think she'd be glad to be known as an author, rather than a female author.

lol concedo