[As] Ladysmith CulchaVulcha might say, not just issues, but, whole subscriptions!

Anti-Control on January 3, 2013 at 11:01 PM

Yikes! And gol-darned your fantastic memory!

Nah. The women on this thread got along famously! It was a bunch of males vs. one female (who we ladies didn’t seem to mind being the “Alpha” in the room).

Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on January 4, 2013 at 3:11 AM

If HighVoltage is an alpha female, Resist We Much isn’t.

Between the 2 of them, who is more fun, has a better sense of humor, is a better listener, and has a far more linear pattern of thought? I rest my case on the matter!

I believe what happened here was what you might call a “conservative cat-fight” (only without hundreds of men ogling by).

nobar on January 4, 2013 at 12:40 AM

Nah. The women on this thread got along famously! It was a bunch of males vs. one female (who we ladies didn’t seem to mind being the “Alpha” in the room).

Well. That escalated quickly.

davidk on January 3, 2013 at 11:56 PM

I believe what happened here was what you might call a “conservative cat-fight” (only without hundreds of men ogling by).

Mirimichi on January 3, 2013 at 11:00 PM

Men had to go on the hunt or plant the fields or fight off an invader and had to organize themselves in order to achieve success. All the men in a group learned that a well working group was critical to success, and dysfunctional group was doomed for failure. The men who were best at organization and alliances became leaders and thus gained more land, more wealth and etc., this in turn improved their chances of getting a mate and survival of their offspring. Thus in order to find a mate you needed to either run a successful group or belong to a successful group.

Women on the other hand did not need to organize into functioning groups in order to find a mate. They just needed to attract a mate individually with their looks, skill, intelligence and personality, or they came from families that had successful men who married them off to other successful men.

A successful woman is seen biologically as some sort of threat to other women in their quest to get the best man. It angers them that they get this attention and they don’t. The same is true for other traits like looks, smarts, wealth, etc.

This explained the bizarre Hillary vs. Obama dynamic in 2008. If it were true that women would flock to another woman running for president than Obama should have been toast. Yet lots of women, including many single women seemed to flock to Obama. Even after on numerous occasions Obama said things that sounded sexist, they still voted for him over Hillary. It was almost like they were competing for his love. Hence his campaign resembled more of a music star road trip than that for a president. Obama’s team did this on purpose.

So an unknown internet poster tells me I’m in denial after having been given no real reason to change my views other than the unknown internet poster says I’m wrong, and so therefore I’m in denial. Hmm.

Being closed minded and stubborn are two different things. (Though they do go hand in hand sometimes) I am not the former, but I admit I am the latter. I can be persuaded to change my mind, and have done so more than once, when I’ve been presented with extensive evidence that suggests I should change my opinion. Generic internet posts from users of unknown provenance isn’t generally gonna do it.

Mostly I’m just poking about while I wait for my work files to load right now. I genuinely do think this is all funny that there are some people here who seem to get very defensive whenever someone makes a comment about the male gender that could be construed as negative. My initial post wasn’t negative, and I never intended it to be so. Human beings are what they are and it isn’t going to change.

We’re not friendly creatures, nor are we designed to be, but we’ve got enough wits about us to understand that we CAN change, but only if we make a sincere effort to do so. The first step is, however, admitting what we are.

DangerHighVoltage on January 3, 2013 at 10:30 PM

I said you are in denial and not very openminded, and you give an looooong, rather oblique response. Think that works in your favor?

Combine that with how I don’t agree with your premise about “We’re not friendly creatures…” but you do, indicting yourself. So…you are admittedly not a friendly creature, and you view everyone else’s behavior through that lens…as far as I am concerned, you’ve got unpleasant, repellent issues, or, as Ladysmith CulchaVulcha might say, not just issues, but, whole subscriptions!