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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: Men & Women (was working with women vs. working with men)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.222625.13756@wam.umd.edu>
- Summary: Like the Energizer, she keeps on going and goind and going
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- References: <1992Dec23.212924.5801@cs.cornell.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:26:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.212924.5801@cs.cornell.edu> jean@cs.cornell.edu (Jean M. Petrosino) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec23.190432.29510@cs.cornell.edu> jean@cs.cornell.edu (Jean M.
- >Petrosino) writes:
- >>RSR: Equality is a delusion.
- >>JMP: Translation: Suck it up.
- >>
- >>RSR: Translation: Take everything away from everybody
- >> and put them all in the same environment. Some
- >> will succeed, some will sink.
- >>When in doubt, quote the superiority of capitalism and Darwin's survival of the
- >> fittest theory.
- >
- >
- > It works. That's a lot more than I can say for alternative
- > theories.
- >
- >It works according to you because you can succeed in such an environment. You
- >have been taylored (socialized) to be able to do so.
-
-
- Blah blah. Show me a successful alternative or pipe down.
-
-
- >>RSR: Come off it. Should I make the effore to
- >> "understand" someone elses methods when they wont
- >> lift a finger to do the same? Hell no. Women
- >> deserveno more slack than anyone else and I think
- >> it's pretty sexist of you to suggest otherwise.
- >>
- >>
- >>Wow. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black...In your earlier post you
- >>said women's thought processes are "crippled in some way, and "makes the work
- >>a lot less effective."
- >
- > What was I saying about your reading level? Why don't
- > you go back and re-read what I wrote. I said "seems
- > crippled in some wway" and filled the
- > message with more disclaimers than
- > you get with most prescription
- > medication.
- >
- >Here is what you wrote when I questioned your use of the word 'crippled':
- >
- > Come on. Crippled is what it is to me. "Different"
- > does not carry the meaning I intend. I mean, "they
- > seem HOBBLED in some way by an INABILITY to make the
- > committment to a solution.
- >
- >I don't see any disclaimers on this one.
-
-
-
- Oh, see the word "seem"? or "what it is to me"?
-
-
-
- >> You then go on to paralell women with children
- >
- > Who paralled them with children? I made a parallel withg
- > a repairman that's busy trying to watch a football game
- > while working. YOU brought children into it.
- >
- >Your paralelling women with children:
- >
- > ...but your partner insists on PLAYING with a thesaurus
- > and PRETTYFYING all of what you're writing instead of
- > aiding the task at hand...After an hour or two, you're
- > liable to strangle them so that they'll SHUT UP long
- > enough for you to think.
-
-
-
- I don't see any mention of children. I was describing--
- quite accurately, I assure you, the behavior most of
- these people display.
-
-
- >It sounds like you are playing G.I. Joe, while these women are playing Barbie.
- >Women are as much a hinderance to work as children are. Thank God for
- >compulsory education! If we could only do the same with women, then maybe
- >something around here would get done!!
-
-
- Your interpretation, not mine.
-
-
-
- > >as well
- >>as getting to the point of insulting my reading abilities.
- >
- > If the shoe fits. You're also pretty good at quoting out
- > of context and distortion. Methinks someone needs a valium.
- >
- >Of course, since I am challenging you I am hysterical and in need of a sedative
- >Maybe you need a cold shower.
-
-
-
- You're not challenging me, you're trying to put words
- in my mouth and attach obviously false meanings to my
- words. If anything, you're boring me.
-
-
-
- >>And to top it all
- >>off you get right down to calling me and other women pathetic simply because
- >>we choose not to operate as you do.
- >
- > Want to show me the quote that says this?
- >
- >Your famous pathetic quote (in response to my statement that you are clearly
- >unwilling to listen to what I am truly saying):
- >
- > Ah, the cry of the pathetic.
- > ...Calling SOMEONE pathetic means just that: pathetic.
- > ...Disgusting lack of self control comes to mind...
-
-
- I wasn't calling _women_ pathetic, Jean, I was calling _you_
- pathetic. Demanding understanding and empathy when you aren't
- willing to lift a finger in the same direction.
-
- "you just don't understand" is whining, pure and simple.
- Lip service. Bunk.
-
-
-
-
- >>Do you really believe that asking you to
- >>try to see a situation from another point of view is sexism?
- >>What planet are you on?
- >
- >
- > It is if you refuse to even acknowledge that
- > at this point, all of the efforts have
- > been on my shoulders. I have made *every* effort
- > to deal with these people and their behavior, yet you
- > say I need to empathize with them. Screw that.
- >
- >> Sexism? You bet. I don't hear you telling me that
- >> women need to try to work with men in a male fashion.
- >
- >WOMEN HAVE TO WORK WITH MEN IN A MALE FASHION BECAUSE OF MEN LIKE YOU.i
-
- In other words, there is no moral imperitive for women
- to try to work with men in a mans fashion, while you claim
- there is some sort of moral mandate that says men should
- go out of their way to work with women ina woman's fashion.
-
- Double standard? Hypocrisy?
-
-
- > WE HAVE
- >NO OTHER ALTERNATIVE IF WE WANT TO SUPPORT OURSELVES AND OUR FAMILIES.
-
-
-
- Boo-hoo.
-
-
-
- >DON'T YOU GET IT? Aparently not.
-
-
- I'm afraid you've missed it yourself. You've summed *everything*
- I've been saying to you in the last three or four messages just fine:
- Men work like men, women work like women, and it's not either
- sides specific duty to cater to the other.
-
-
- --
- "If you can't eat sand, why the hell are you living in a desert?"
- Equality is a delusion.
- Rule 1: "Don't have more children than you can feed."
- Buy American as if your job depended on it.
-