[extropy-chat] I keep asking myself...

[Samantha Atkins]

On Apr 4, 2006, at 12:44 PM, Al Brooks wrote:

> Correct, not alot of reason but enough reason all the same. I'm  
> fifty, and have no intention whatsoever of being active anymore  
> after arguing day in day out with ludds of all stripes since, oh,  
> about 1968. You think I don't know how slowly we are evolving in  
> terms of one person's lifespan? Think I don't know what it still  
> means to be a man? Do you think a guy with two inches of forehead  
> would be so foolish at fifty to let a woman advise him on being a  
> man?-- would a sensible woman listen to a man attempting to advise  
> her on being a woman? I'm not angry, but am thoroughly mystified  
> that you would think I don't know what the score is. Am simply  
> nonplussed.
> There is almost no purpose in trying to explain it.
>

It has nothing at all to do with gender.  I spoke as one human  
concerned with the apparent downward spiral of another.  Sorry  
(mostly for you) if you don't want to or can't hear it or benefit.    
You can dry up and blow away if you so wish.  But it is in your power  
to choose differently.

- samantha