On 16 Mar 2005 12:18:39 -0800, "bluesmama" 
wrote:

>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.

Heh. Good point.


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