From: rdh11.rh@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, July 4, 2023 at 5:08:50 PM UTC-4, V wrote:   
   > You are ******************** !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   
   I dunno Illya.   I am old now. My life experience suggests to me that women,   
   by and large, carry a far greater responsibility in life for in some ways,   
   they carry our very SOUL as a being.  We've all heard that behind every great   
   man is a greater woman.     
   That addage rings true for my observations in life...only it goes far deeper   
   than just mating.  Starting with Mothers, to sisters, to female schoolmates,   
   to girl friends, ending up in that special someone as a mate...a man's   
   character, his foundational    
   integrity, and most enduring...his CONFIDENCE is shaped by all these   
   interactions through life [at least to maturity].  A man's POTENTIAL can be   
   made or broken...by womanhood [and no, unlike Jimmy Buffet sings, it's only   
   Partially my 'own damn fault', ha]   
   .      
      
   Can it be said the same for Women?     
      
   One reason for bowery row [those dark back alleys of homeless wretches, mostly   
   male]...is that SUCCESS in a man's spirit is measured by his successes with   
   that womanhood, by and large...and of course, that plays in his general   
   ability to provide and    
   protect.  Surely there are some 'stronger' men that can overcome early   
   disappointments, rejections, and put downs and go on to be a success in life.    
   But even here, one might wager some minimally POSITIVE input from womanhood,   
   perhaps in their mothers or    
   sisters or others along the way.  Truth is, men MUST perform in life...or risk   
   that bowery row or some other addictive anti-life behaviors to compensate.    
   MEN PERFORM.   
      
   WOMEN...on the other hand...CHOOSE.     
   Some would poo poo all this of course, and though an oversimplification, I do   
   think this simplification comes closest to the truth between the sexes.  Men   
   Perform, Women Choose.  Proof of this, is that a woman can go into the   
   workplace, and fail    
   miserably...and still be a high choice for mating [if she remains physically   
   attractive].  If a man fails in the workplace, his mating prospect sinks   
   proportionally.  As Jorden Petersen quite accurately depicts, women only marry   
   up, not down.  Men marry    
   down, or sideways, but not UP [as to social status].  As a man 'falls' his   
   choices diminish [just a logic mathematical reality].      
      
   By the SELECTIONS that women choose, so also do they inherently create the   
   general character of MEN...those who might fullfill their potential from those   
   who might...well, never even know of their potential.  I'm sure there is some   
   reciprocal impact for    
   women from the men in their live [especially fathers perhaps]...but as I see   
   it from these aging eyes that's now seen quite a bit in life, it is WOMEN who   
   carry the very responsibility of what we will be [through the men they select,   
   and help create].      
      
   In post modern times, it seems to me that a great twisted miscreant mindset   
   has taken hold of womanhood now, where they now actively, in many respects,   
   actually seek to destroy manhood.  This too is a selective aura, where perhaps   
   only the malcreants    
   CHARACTER arises...those malevolent,  corrupt, and socially psychopathic are   
   the only character that can SURVIVE.  For this...well, what character of this   
   type have we historically deemed it to BE?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)