Birdgirl wrote;

Polymirize is a man, Slow. One of the few. The proud. The evolved. You assumed because he was so articulate that he was a woman? Because women are the only ones who can be verbally articulate whereas men are the only ones who can do math and engineering? Wasn't that what you were saying back there when you were telling me you were a primary school teacher? Just like you were saying that only men can fight fires? And only women could initiate research studies showing that there's an inequity of teacher attention to female students?

You terrify me. I will be civil because I know I won't win any converts or change any other people's minds by getting strident or angry. And I already know your mind is unchangeable anyway. But you really do remind me of just how much more progress is needed in this area.


No, I assumed that Polly was a womans name.

I have no idea how I have gotten so misunderstood here. I am not a chest thumping neaderthal as you all seem to think.
Let me say first off that I NEVER said women shouldn't be fire fighters or anything of the sort. My class validictorian was an all county shot putter and went to Anapoliss (sp) and she could have kicked my but up and down the halls all day long if she wished to.

I believe in equality. I'm the guy (and I'm proud to say my boys are too) who will risk his own safety to defend the weak. Be it the kindergardener who my son protected from two much older bullies on the bus, to throwing a skinhead type of jerk out of a party when he started spouting off about Jews. I don't put up with fanaticisim and I don't put up with repression. Maybe that's why I'm so angered by some of you. You appear to be trying to repress my opinions by coersion (IE. name calling, neg reps, speaking to eachother about me as though I weren't here.)

As one of my smartest correspondents told me behind the scenes, "What's scary is that for every two like BA and Slow who express those thoughts, there are dozens more men keeping silent who believe the same thing."

Behind the scenes? Birdgirl, I am starting to question weather you should be a moderator. I have seen you on numerous threads attacking B.A. with no apparent cause. I am begining to think you are abusing your position. I'm sorry, I know we tried to bury the hatchet but I have to call it as I see it. Particularly the one where you told him you were angered by something he wrote then errased before posting. That was some serious BS.


To the rest of you....
I am not an idiot. I have been provocative in an attempt to open a discusion on the assumptions of feminisim. Has it been good for America? Could it be the cause of our current moral crisis? Anyone want to discuss this issue? Anyone left with an open mind?

- Slow -