On 4/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Al Brooks</b> <<a href="mailto:kerry_prez@yahoo.com">kerry_prez@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="direction: ltr;"><div>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. </div> <div>There is almost no purpose in trying to explain it.</div></div></blockquote></div><br>
None of the contents of this thread have anything to do with the
male/female distinction. Samantha was discussing the philosophy of how
to be a human being; I find her view perfectly valid and relevant, and
I'm a man last I checked. I can sympathize with being tired of arguing
with luddites and wanting to hand that task over to people who have
more energy, but that doesn't mean you can't do something else instead;
a change is sometimes as good as a rest.<br>
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Of course it's your life to lead as you see fit, and if you find other
people's perspectives don't work for you then you should disregard
them, but that is equally true whether you are a man or a woman.<br>