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In reply to the discussion: I dare to write about: Men and Women Today [View all]marble falls
(57,647 posts)22. You're a lot more "normal" than you think!
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yep, another stereotype in a veritable long list of them. one of my parents encouraged me, the other
bettyellen
Feb 2014
#174
You Rock. You are so Awesome right now. Your light is shining so bright
Tuesday Afternoon
Feb 2014
#26
i do not see women on du, lashing out, because they are "emotionally damaged". that is insulting.
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#9
no. you have not heard me ever say that. men on du... why insulting? she doesnt know me.
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#11
do not tell me what i have expereinced. and i will not tell you your suffering or "damage".
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#16
The only people who have the power to insult me are those I have respect for. Everyone else, I could
sabrina 1
Feb 2014
#198
that would go along with the Op in hof. women, the liars, manipulators, seductresses, ect....
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#17
Considering that the World's Biggest Liars and Manipulators have Historically been Men
Tuesday Afternoon
Feb 2014
#19
but then... it would be a history of men, that in plays, songs, shows and culture, that say women
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#21
having been a swimmer for decade and half, and in cold pools at 6 in the morning, in freezing
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#40
this is a carry on from another thread where she specifically said some of us women that are vocal
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#83
that is the problem taking it to personal. even kinda assuming where a person is coming from.
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#100
Stop misstating my post in other threads when I'm not even addressing you.
Waiting For Everyman
Feb 2014
#228
You don't need to misstate what I say again, my own links are what I said.
Waiting For Everyman
Feb 2014
#236
Seabeyond doesn't owe you an apology. Here's why she's honest and your OP is not:
R B Garr
Feb 2014
#254
so who were you? and if you think that it is only two of us that picked up on that, in this OP,
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#119
all of this to tell us women that have been hurt and damaged by men... do not lash out....
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#14
What I really do not appreciate is the fact that this relative newcomer
Tuesday Afternoon
Feb 2014
#18
I understand what you are saying and I respect it. However, I find the subject matter and
Tuesday Afternoon
Feb 2014
#113
"There is a knot of anger that sits at the bottom of the soul seemingly forever."
bemildred
Feb 2014
#215
is it not arrogantly condescending for men to psychoanalyze the women on du that speak out
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#217
i guess that is a way to passively aggressively thumbs up what rc is doing. cause you understand,
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#220
my petty argument? i get you do not care. my petty argument is rc telling us we are damaged and
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#224
Kinda puts the OUTRAGE at it being suggested that there is damage out there in perspective, eh.
Bonobo
Feb 2014
#329
You can't get through to them. Which is why most people here don't even try.
sabrina 1
Feb 2014
#242
So true polly. This thread could have been a really good place to talk about the issues raised by
sabrina 1
Feb 2014
#280
+1. It's weird because I like everyone disagreeing with each other here, lol.
closeupready
Feb 2014
#293
this thread is a continuation from another. it is not the topic that is the issue.
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#296
frstly, i think it is highly offensive for me to presume that i could have any role at all in
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#300
When you say 'real world,' are you referring to our first-hand experiences?
closeupready
Feb 2014
#306
All men are this. All women are that. And what's up with that crazy youth, anyway?
Chorophyll
Feb 2014
#32
Then maybe your essay should have been cut down to what you just wrote here.
Chorophyll
Feb 2014
#122
If you realize that generalizations are "never correct," then why resort to them? As an academic
anneboleyn
Feb 2014
#166
Exactly! Gender essentialism (women are counting the calories!) is just bullshit. I happily eat the
anneboleyn
Feb 2014
#161
It's too bad you chose to end a somewhat accurate (if a little bland) essay
Sheldon Cooper
Feb 2014
#33
first we get in trouble for being damaged goods, then for having fun. sheesh. all out pals in here
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#47
oh jeeze, reread for comprehension before you call others liars. someone posted calling out Duers to
bettyellen
Feb 2014
#188
Yes, I understand but, please do not matronize your younger sisters in this.
Tuesday Afternoon
Feb 2014
#132
so, you assume we do not know what "Patriarchal Hierarchy" even looks like, and you
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#43
Of course that is true and why the thinking in the OP is so 70s. It manages to be both
seaglass
Feb 2014
#49
Thank you, dawg, for recognizing that we are individuals. All of us. Each and every one.
Tuesday Afternoon
Feb 2014
#50
Wow! That means you will actually be treating the lucky Amy as an individual person!
Squinch
Feb 2014
#187
I think it's interesting that "Bella" keeps setting up seabeyond in posts to you.
Sheldon Cooper
Feb 2014
#183
ok. so you were on the jury and had to do a pre game ",". whatever. were you the yea... lets use
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#101
skinner should see juror 4. how is new rule is abused by some, to get people they do not like
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#104
Juror number 4 deserves his/her ass MIRTed, and I hope the alerter alerts on these results.
ScreamingMeemie
Feb 2014
#137
not by me. why? cause she called me out. tell her to go around and edit a number of posts...
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#71
recent history of what? people's Alert Records? Really? Do tell where that info can be found
Tuesday Afternoon
Feb 2014
#82
take note pinto. two alerts in this cutsey subthread of insult. scout and i. go figure... huh.
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#178
we're just paranoid sea, lashing out inappropriately because of our repressed damaged psyches n/t
Scout
Feb 2014
#180
women speaking their mind is not a result of unhealed pain erupting inappropriately as raw emotion.
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#77
But we are just soooo emotional and hysterical, dear me, we can't possibly see
seaglass
Feb 2014
#85
telling me the men in my life have hurt me is probably a zillion times more offensive. simply
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#86
It is an offensive thing to say, the OP is shit-stirring - bored on a Monday morning I guess.
seaglass
Feb 2014
#97
yup. it is probably the women that have the solid, respectful me in life, that have the loudest
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#110
thank you. you know. who wants to know, be labeled or have this garbage weighing us down....
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#164
thank you, it is bizarre how a laundry list of sterotypes is lauded here as wisdom.
bettyellen
Feb 2014
#175
I'm sorry. Nothing can be said on this topic without a shit storm ensuing.
Comrade Grumpy
Feb 2014
#153
i wasnt aware from the start of all this. but seeing every person on this thread cheering active
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#219
have never seen so many sterotypes in one post- and the youth, all about saying young women have no
bettyellen
Feb 2014
#169
I always love a wall of text that is patronizing and chock full of sweeping generalizations!
Squinch
Feb 2014
#186
Jes wonnerin: so you post your evidence-free observations, but you require evidence when others
Squinch
Feb 2014
#302
it's now considered abusive to note someone lacks courage? i really don't think so.
bettyellen
Feb 2014
#195
"he assumes that because one is female, she needs protection from modern ills."
lumberjack_jeff
Feb 2014
#331
Rec'd since I can enjoy 'stream of consciousness' writing. I see it as that, no more or less.
freshwest
Feb 2014
#193
wow. lets just keep feeding the same ole lame stereotype, conditioning this is who we are.
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#279