Advice on men

[AhabsOtherLeg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1A0p0F_iH8

Just feeling romantic tonight.

That fella sure loves his Stella.

JOE SAID: I'm loyal to mine, and I have certainly had plenty of opportunity not to over the years.

She has too.

Bet I could be loyal if I was married. Tenner on it. I've been unfailingly loyal to my own self for nearly a couple of years now, and I reckon I could extend the same method to accomodate another.

Admittedly, this is done mostly without the opportunity, but it's still quite an achievement, in my view.

As for theatre circles ... they are so incestuous that if someone's in the closet someone else's bound to know anyway.

They're usually just in there taking a sly nip or two before showtime.

Barracuda should repost that Gilbert and Sullivan/ Rap mash-up. Because it is good.

On the off-chance that he won't, here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJdEFf_Qg4
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[Code Unknown]

Ha! Thanks for that.

[Project Willow]

What the hell?
I mean, what the hell!
WHAT the HELL?!
A lifetime long doctoral program on the male sex would not be enough to tear away the fog occluding its nature. I'll never understand the church of the dangling bits, never.

Considering the intermittent blasts of misogyny on this board I thought this a fit place to lodge a non-specific complaint.

[Alaya]

PW:

Considering the intermittent blasts of misogyny on this board I thought this a fit place to lodge a non-specific complaint.

They can't help it. They're afraid of us. Comes out in misogyny among other ways..

Something about being 2 yrs old and "Tiny Alice".......and all that shit.

Take pity on them unless you happen to be married to one,
Then you're in deep shit.

[norton ash]

Non-specific complaint?

Women. Always approaching sideways.

[Project Willow]

They can't help it. They're afraid of us. Comes out in misogyny among other ways..

Something about being 2 yrs old and "Tiny Alice".......and all that shit.

Take pity on them unless you happen to be married to one,
Then you're in deep shit.

That's funny! I'll eventually get to pity, I'm in the anger stage now.

Norton I'd love to blab in detail, but this is too public. Your statement is wonderfully ironic, if you only knew.

[elfismiles]

It is truly amazing how truly alien the sexes are to one another.

The first thing that comes to mind are the Laurie Anderson songs LET X=X and IT TANGO...

I met this guy - and he looked like might have
been a hat check clerk at an ice rink.
Which, in fact, he turned out to be. And I said:
Oh boy. Right again.

Let X=X. You know, it could be you.
It's a sky-blue sky. Satellites are out tonight.
Let X=X.

You know, I could write a book. And this book would
be think enough to stun an ox. Cause I can see the
future and it's a place - about 70 miles east of
here. Where it's lighter. Linger on over here.
Got the time?.

I got this postcard. And it read, it said:
Dear Amigo - Dear Partner.
Listen, uh - I just want to say thanks. So...thanks.
Thanks for all the presents. Thanks for introducing
me to the Chief.
Thanks for putting on the feedbag. Thanks for going
all out.
Thanks for showing me your Swiss Army knife.
and uh -
Thanks for letting me autograph your cast.
Hug and kisses. XXXXOOOO.
Oh yeah, P.S.
I - feel - feel like - I am - in a burning building - and I
gotta go.
Cause I - I feel - feel like - I am - in a burning
building - and I gotta go.

She said: It looks. Don't you think it looks a lot like rain?

He said: Isn't it. Isn't it just. Isn't it just like a woman?

She said: It's hard. It's just hard. It's just kind of hard to say.

He said: Isn't it. Isn't it just. Isn't it just like a woman?

She said: It goes. That's the way it goes. It goes that way.

He said: Isn't it. Isn't it just like a woman?

She said: It takes. It takes one. It takes on to. It takes one to know one.

He said: Isn't it just like a woman?

She said: She said it. She said it to (k)no(w). She said it to (k)no(w) one.

Isn't it. Isn't it just? Isn't it just like a woman?

Your eyes. It's a day's work to look in to them.

Your eyes. It's a day's work just to look in to them.

[Penguin]

Im an alien to myself.

[Hammer of Los]

I think men and women aren't so different, actually. I think they are far more alike than they are different.

I am not, perhaps, what would be known as a man's man. Effete intellectual would be more like it. I am certainly a man in a woman's world. I was always a little camp. I have deliberately cultivated the feminine side of my nature.

Gender roles are created social constructs. The imperialist militarist materialist consumerist social darwinist competitive "meritocracy" offers one, very distorted, idea of masculinity. I'm thinking Gillette razorblades. I wouldn't shave if my sainted other didn't insist on it.

So I dont buy the women from venus men from mars claptrap. Besides which, that guy was dodgy.



I agree with the Penguin. I always agree with the Penguin.

Advice on men?

Advice on sentient beings; Be kind, loving, honest, forgiving, understanding and tolerant. Treat them as yourself. Have fun with them. Explore the world together. If you really need informational diversity, as I do, then I would suggest a chalk and cheese type match. That's always fun. Balance is achieved. If you're lucky.

I just want everyone to be nice to each other. Let's not get into battle of the sexes territory. I dont like to see misogyny or misanthropy. I'm a uniter, not a divider!

Er, hang on, I've just remembered who said that...

[Cordelia]

I don't mind out-front and in-the-open misogynists as much as those who are loudly anti-misogyny closet misogynists.

Because I'm fighting one in a ridiculously long, drawn-out, contentious divorce & spiteful law suit and admit, currently, a tendency to lean towards misandry.

(And I'm old enough to remember the disappointment a lot of women felt after Kennedy promised to send a man to the moon by the end of the 60's and they thought he'd promised to send them all....)

[Project Willow]

(And I'm old enough to remember the disappointment a lot of women felt after Kennedy promised to send a man to the moon by the end of the 60's and they thought he'd promised to send them all....)

Good luck in your battle Cordelia, and thanks for the perspective.

[Alaya]

I don't mind out-front and in-the-open misogynists as much as those who are loudly anti-misogyny closet misogynists.

Because I'm fighting one in a ridiculously long, drawn-out, contentious divorce & spiteful law suit and admit, currently, a tendency to lean towards misandry.

(And I'm old enough to remember the disappointment a lot of women felt after Kennedy promised to send a man to the moon by the end of the 60's and they thought he'd promised to send them all....)

I'm really so very sorry, Cordelia.

It's a rough decision to take that on.......

Hoping you find the strength to see it through and stay true to yourself.

Wishing you all the best, really.

[Allegro]

...(And I'm old enough to remember the disappointment a lot of women felt after Kennedy promised to send a man to the moon by the end of the 60's and they thought he'd promised to send them all....)

Cordelia, I immediately thought of this scene with its humor and a whole lot of truth about, well, you know, MEN!

[Nordic]

Of course men and women will never understand each other, it's impossible. We have different DNA.

But that's part of what makes it so much fun. The journey into the unknowable.

I've always adored women, still do for the most part. I was raised by them. Always had close female friends, until I got married, then that sorta ended.

But uh .... what was my point gonna be? Hell, I don't remember now. I'm tired.

Oh. I often wonder why women don't get along with women that well. Most of the women I know? They don't really like other women that much.

[Maddy]

I don't get that either, Nordic.

There appears to be a type of woman who is simply jealous of other women, and she appears to ruin it for the rest of us. I happen to love women, and actually prefer them over men (sorrry!). Women's friendships are sacred to me, and when that type of jealousy (and its inherent behaviours) begins, it just tears me up. But I'm sure that's not all women, because I know other women like me who are just as flummoxed by this catty, jealous, male-possessive, dominant behaviour. I just consider it crazy.

On the other hand, working with animals, I note that there are female dogs who do the same behaviours, and we all know what they are. I own one of them. And I've seen it in other species. So it must be some hormonal trait.

Does this type of behaviour, or its equivilant, cross over into the male gender at all?