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   Message 110,476 of 111,200   
   Julian to Wilson   
   Re: Girl President   
   07 Nov 16 14:09:07   
   
   XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: julianlzb87@gmail.com   
      
   On 07/11/2016 13:54, Wilson wrote:   
   > On 11/6/2016 4:42 PM, Kitty P wrote:   
   >> "noname"  wrote in message news:nvo0tp$neb$1@dont-email.me...   
   >>>   
   >>> Nobody in Particular  wrote:   
   >>> > On 11/6/2016 12:15 AM, noname wrote:   
   >>> >> liaM  wrote:   
   >>> >>> On 11/5/2016 8:54 PM, noname wrote:   
   >>> >>   
   >>> >> What I think is that You People don't recognize just how sexist   
   >>> Kitty's   
   >>> >> comments about how "men don't understand" are.  Kitty is the most   
   >>> blatantly   
   >>> >> sexist individual posting in these groups.   
   >>> >>   
   >>> >> As for whatever you think is "for your own good", you seem to   
   >>> think you   
   >>> >> have some special secret to impart but you apparently lack the   
   >>> >> forthrightness to say what it is.  To me that screams "bullshit",   
   >>> it says   
   >>> >> you're hiding behind your egocentric paternalism and attempting to   
   >>> assume   
   >>> >> an aspect of superiority to make the magnifying glass go away.   
   >>> Bring it   
   >>> >> out and put it on the table, or admit that you shot your mouth off   
   >>> about   
   >>> >> nothing just to make yourself feel better.   
   >>> >   
   >>> > Why do you try so very hard to be offended?   
   >>>   
   >>> Is there something in that for me?  What's my cut?  I'm not seeing it as   
   >>> having any benefit whatsoever. Why do you think I try to be offended?   
   >>> Because people who theoretically are interested in "mental culture" show   
   >>> themselves to be dilettantes?  That's a personal issue, they can pretend   
   >>> whatever they want and put it over on themselves, not my problem.  On   
   >>> the   
   >>> other hand, those genuinely involved in the subject might wish to be   
   >>> reminded that they've forgotten.  Do You People have a list of the   
   >>> serious   
   >>> and the list of those who are present merely to think well of   
   >>> themselves by   
   >>> association?  I missed that memo, please do forward it.   
   >>   
   >>> email: noname.1234567.abcdef@gmail.com   
   >>   
   >> Hello wall.   
   >   
   > According to widely accepted contemporary correct-thinking dogma it's   
   > all but impossible for a woman to be sexist when she generalizes about men.   
   >   
   > That's because, according to this mythology, men are generally   
   > reprobates.  Anything you say about them is probably true.  And even if   
   > it's not true specifically, it almost certainly is overall.  So it's   
   > okay to say things about men that if they were said about women would   
   > get one thrown into a metaphorical feminist gulag.   
   >   
   > The idea that Kitty saying, "That is the mistake that men make all the   
   > time" might be a little bit sexist is simply flying over the heads of   
   > Kitty and NiP.   
   >   
   > They can't believe it's even a little bit off kilter for a woman to   
   > generalize like that.   
   >   
   > That's the world they have built around themselves.   
      
   Are you saying they've taken over the roles Robert and Evelyn   
   used to play in this theater?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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