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[Allegro]

...The language of dominance is rife in all of the heated exchanges, who wins, who loses, who ends with a balance of power over, these are all traditionally male, result-priority concerns. Dominance is our common language/framework, known to and spoken by both men and women. Process-priority concerns such as listening, mirroring, empathy, and support, these are traditionally female and so are relegated to that valueless territory of "other". While the point about language has been made already but it bears repeating. Sadly, the devaluing of process-priority language has apparently kept it completely out of the awareness of some young men, and so we have this conflict here, which ironically is then blamed on women. [REFER.]

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[beeline]

My Little Elvis wants his warm turtleneck back, Mom and Dad. You fuckers.

[Maddy]

Certain people continue to accuse me of misogynistic behavior without providing any real examples. Disagreeing with three women on a misogyny thread I don't think qualifies.

[wintler2]

Give some credence and then take some responsiblity and see what happens.

[Project Willow]

Waugs wrote:
"It really sucks that there are misogynists assholes in the world, but i don't particularly like being lumped in with them."

Then I suggest you take your issue up with them, because your sex lumps you in with them, and that's not the fault of Maddy, your mother, or any other woman.

Beautiful.

[Nordic]

I'm a lousy mod, really.

-- Barracuda

[JackRiddler]

I declined a 75k salary year with an almost guaranteed s-clearance for Northrop Grumman's global hawk pilot program in 2005. My friends thought I was crazy and said they welcomed invasive background checks and interviews. I said I rather live on the few hundred dollars I have a month than serve these freaking ghoulish hounds of death.

Well even though it woulda just been doing graphic design/programming bundled software and training packages, a couple weeks before the clearance process was to begin I called em up and respectfully declined. If you've seen the 2001 9/11-esque NORAD war game brochures and pdfs leaked, you can see that despite all the conspiracies of DEW weapons and exotic high tech WTC beams...the government's internal documents and layouts have always been super shitty embarrassing.

Now my favorite film of all time is the rather obscure 1992 family film "Toys" starring Robin Williams, a surrealist Rene Magritte inspired whimsical tale of a warmongering General who's plans for WW3 involve getting kids hooked on piloting video game simulators. The kids think its all a virtual reality game, when in fact they really are bombing people as part of their conditioning. So the whole point of the film is creative innocence and wonder being destroyed by war. I consider the predator/reaper/drone stuff some of the most spiritually wrong things in the military. Sure, they arent the 5000 lb daisy cutters or MOAB or DU bombs. But the idea of people in a cushy room in Virginia using video game joysticks to pilot what looks like a video game and blowing up men women and often children in villages...then going to the break room with a diet coke and sandwich an hour later joking about getting laid and the previous night's episode of The Office...just makes me fucking sick to my stomach.

Obama invoked 9/11 in graphic emotional triggering terms Sunday night, saying Osama's actions created spaces that the dinner table that would never be filled or some shit like that. And Im sitting there thinking, what about all the Muslim dinner tables where whole families are wiped out?

[SNIP: Clip from "Good Will Hunting"]

Heh, well I'm a lot more shy speaking to "adults" than that, and I am one of the worst people at math on the planet(unless it's noticing numerological patterns in famous dates)
I love that clip though, it's one of my favorite "stick it" scenes next to a few scenes in Network. At the end of the day I'm just glad I don't have a bunch of toxic social dysfunction from people, a loveless deadend relationship and reams of stress. I figure more money someone has, the more temptations and problems. Hell, it finally occurred to me I could actually make the food I like to go out for and save money/not clog arteries as quick doing it. It's so easy to be stuck in these routines, and I think people who work for these agencies or military literally see it as a run of the mill job...never thinking of the implications other than not having money to feed their family.

I always think of how the spirit of the 60's and 70's anti war movement is nowhere to be found in today's college youth; partly because of technology distractions but also perhaps the lack of a draft

Respect.

starting here
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=31969&start=450#p399764

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[JackRiddler]

As for Obama screening Weekend At Bin Laden's to tip the scales for Ol' Steve. I wish an NDP government would represent such an existential threat, but I don't think we factored into the calculations on that one.

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=31331&start=345#p399804

[brainpanhandler]

This is an internet discussion board. A certain amount of heated and passionate conflict seems kind of inevitable. As long as no one's actually trying to hurt anyone else, I think a little imperfectly concealed dislike is perfectly okay.

[crikkett]

Evil people are just like us, they like to be well thought of.

[barracuda]

It's my hypothesis (which is based on nothing) that neurotypicality is mostly just an undetected symptom of repressed neurodiversity that's been further screened from view by compensatory learned behaviors consequent on the initial repression.

[charlie meadows]

Esalen damn well can be disregarded when that's what the person affiliated with it should be, is what I guess I'm saying.

[Canadian_watcher]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43029928/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

Bit of a gruesome one, so to summarise this woman had acid thrown in her face by some bloke who wanted to marry her, in Iran predictably. Didn't realise it would cause any harm, apparently. Do you think this is an example of misogyny? He is to be punished not in the traditional Iranian manner of paying a shedload of compensation to victims of violent crime but by being blinded by acid himself, on the insistence of the victim who refused to take the money instead. Opinions? Just punishment? Obviously the marry-or-acid approach the bloke took is a classic controlling abusive behaviour, but do you think it has origins in misogyny or just interpersonal relations? Seems like this isn't a one-off case.

I'm not inclined to be judgemental, although her desire for vengeance is obviously understandable that doesn't make it admirable. Of course I'm not inclined to denounce him as barbaric out of hand either.

[crikkett]

I won't shut it down at this point. I think I'd fight to keep it open just out of spite and fascination.

[Searcher08]

I can't believe I'm locking a discussion about a frigging volcano.

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