[ExI] Superheroes without superpowers

[William Flynn Wallace]

How women control men:  In one of Terry Prachett's books there is a talking
dog.  He gets in a situation where a pack of wild dogs is attacking.  No
worries, he says.  I have the Power!.

So when the dogs get close he says "Bad Dog!" and all the dogs get on the
ground and grovel and whine.

This is not dissimilar from man's response to women's words.  A wife's
words recall a husband's mother and the power they have.  Also, a woman can
shame a man in many ways, some sexual. So, a woman who knows all this has
the Power to bring her husband down with just a word or two with the right
reflections.  Men know this.  The weakest of them even call their wives
"Mother" (even worse "My old lady", which equals -"My controller")  .  How
Freudian is that?  Wimp city.

So am I saying "I understand women and wives!"?  Yes I am.  I am on to
their tricks (and probably they are on to mine).   bill w

On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 11:28 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> ...> On Behalf Of Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat
> Subject: Re: [ExI] Superheroes without superpowers
>
> >> On 07/10/2021 08:23, spike wrote:
> >>> Batman was the only known superhero who didn't have any actual
> superpowers
>
> On 2021-10-07 22:27, Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat wrote:
> > The Spirit comes to mind.
>
> How about the Black Widow?
>
> --
> *\\*  Anton Sherwood  *\\*  www.bendwavy.org
>
>
> _______________________________________________
>
>
> Anton, your exception proves the point.  The Black Widow had superpowers in
> a sense, for all women have superpowers: they get us boys to do whatever
> they want.  It's like some kind of hypnosis or something.  We are like
> Superman to their kryptonite: they make us go along, they somehow get their
> way with us, regardless of how silly is the whim.
>
> This particular instance is exaggerated, because she has that chiseled
> outta
> marble physique and of course that whole sexy Russian thing going.  She is
> Natalia Alianovna "Natasha" Romanova; Russian: Наталья Альяновна "Наташа"
> Романова so of course she was able to seduce the superhero Hawkeye the
> archer.
>
> Perhaps one can define the superpower of the woman as being able to bring
> men with superpowers over to their cause.  I struggle to understand it all
> in terms of evolutionary psychology, which is to date perhaps the best way
> to eff the ineffable: view life from the point of view of the DNA rather
> than from the view of the DNA envelope (us.)  The DNA is really driving us,
> while making us feel like we are carrying the DNA.
>
> Note how un-PC is my post for daring to claim there is a difference between
> men and women.  I might as well forget about running for any public office,
> ever.  You know some yahoo would dig up this post, put it on Twitter, and
> it
> is all over for the old Spike Man.
>
> spike
>
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