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   Eric Schild aka eric@nil.invalid.com wrote:   
   > Karen is sort of like an aging burlesque queen: many years past her   
   > prime, far too much pancake make-up; but still she lumbers up on stage   
   > in the dive bar to strut about.  Not because it's fun, but because she   
   > doesn't know how to do anything else - and there's always the off-chance   
   > that one or two members of the scattered audience might pay her some   
   > attention - even if it's only laughter and catcalls.   
      
      
   Eric is an emotionally-damaged male; rejected over the years by both women   
   and men.  His momma loved him, but she died.  Now he's free to vent his sexist   
   feelings without someone in his family finding out about them.  His employer,   
   however, did note his tendencies to treating women as inferior beings, and let   
   him go.  His bruised and battered ego requires that he have an alliance with   
   same-minded sexists to be able to withstand the barbs of a superior female   
   mind.   
   He carefully cultivates those in the audience that are able to be manipulated   
   and   
   uses them to support his own spite.  An ugly man with an ugly personality   
   trying   
   to pass himself off as a normal male.  But actually only a puppeteer   
   surrounded by   
   puppets.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)