Grizzlie Antagonist wrote:
> On 29 Mar 2005 08:17:01 -0800, "Hyerdahl"
 wrote:
>
> >
> >JerryWong wrote:
> >> The fundamental theorem of men and women is as follows:
> >>
> >> Part 1
> >> Every woman needs a man but not every man needs a woman.
> >
> >That doesn't make much sense to me, since women are...today...doing
> >everything men are doing PLUS they can gestate their own family,
quite
> >without any particular man.  She is the unit.  He is the other.

> Not in my office, Puke.

Ah, but IN mine, Dave Sim.  :-)
>
> We got something like 12 assignments and eight men and four women to
> fill them.  Except that the four women are always out on maternity
> leave and/or sick leave or whatever, and the eight of us are always
> scrambling to cover for them.

So, get rid of them.  :-)
>
> In my office, women really aren't doing anything OTHER THAN gestating
> or finding other reasons to take off work, and I suspect that's the
> way it is in other offices.
>
Suspect away, but that doesn't mean that my neice will be darning your
nephew's socks any time soon.  :-)
(edit)
>
 >You have not offered any "empirical evidence", and my evidence will
> >clearly show that women can and do exist without men.  My evidence
is
> >widows.  Widows all over the world raise their families without a
man
> >as head of that family.
> >
> >  On the other hand, many> men over the ages have had spectacular
> >results in the fields of medicine, math and physics not to mention
> >chemistry without the meddling of women.
> >
> >Women scientists, chemists and physicists don't particularly care
> >whether or not you want them there.
>
> Well, you see, Puke; that's not quite true.

Sure it is Dave Sim.

> Women who file sex discrimination lawsuits - and as you know, there
> are quite a number of them that are filed - inevitably include among
> their language the allegation that the men in the office or some male
> supervisor created a "hostile work environment" directed toward the
> female plaintiff.
>
> What those women are saying, of course, is that they care very
> passionately and very deeply about what their male colleagues think
> about them - and, of course, employers are often compelled to spend
> money on "sensitivity training" to change such allegedly hostile
> attitudes.
>
> So yes, Puke; those female scientists and chemists care very much
> about what JerryWong thinks about them, and so do you.
>
Nah.  It's all handled within our social policy these days, Dave.
Women
have never been freer to do as they please, and they don't seem
interested in
being the second sex anymore.   Boys can no longer BE boys at the
expense of
everyone else, and what they think about that is...totally irrelevant.


>
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>
> "Ladies and gentlemen - let's have a round of applause for tonight's
player of the game - FRAN-CIS-CO SAN-N-N-N-TOS!
>     - Brian Anthony (P.A. announcer at Grizzlie Stadium), June 11,
2004
>
>
> "Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their
disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion
as their love of justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as
their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and
presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the
counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves.
 Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite
be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there
must be without.  It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things
that men of intemperate minds cannot be free.  Their passions forge
their fetters."
>
>      - Edmund Burke, Letter to a Member of the National Assembly
(1791)



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