Viking wrote:
> On 16 Mar 2005 11:46:47 -0800, "bluesmama"

> wrote:
>
> >It's a human courtesy to give up a seat to someone who needs it
more.
> >But maybe you live in a community that doesn't need those kinds of
> >simple rules for good manners. Courtesy is not chivalry, courtesy is
> >indifferent to gender.
>
> Most of the men here feel it's past the time for courtesies between
> genders. I'm not being harsh, bluesmama, but you can't go into a
> bunker and suggest a picnic with the ones shelling you from across
the
> field. You have to understand that the mentality in the bunker will
be
> different from that on a picnic ground. Yes, there are some madheads
> here, and if you want to talk with them, you have to try on their
> shoes first. Otherwise you won't be speaking the same language.
You're
> asking someone who feels like an Arab patriot why he won't be
> courteous and tip his hat to Israeli soldiers.

Well I think it's a shame about the courtesy, but thanks for explaining
the reasoning to me. It seems like if I saw some guy with a broken leg
I'd be happy to give my seat up to him, because he needed it, and it
would just be a simple human gesture of compassion, based on disparity
of need. As far as the harsh thing goes, I'm way past that, I've been
innoculated with soc.men now I think, but thanks too for reminding me
of that, I did have some major problems with the language used here
when I first arrived. GA called my 3 year old nasty names in another
thread and it didn't raise my ire at all, just made me wonder why a
toddler would be a target for that kind of bile.



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