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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
AKA Smith
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I like men. I grew up with three younger brothers. (Yes, I did bully them a bit. That's what sisters are for.) However, I quite like men. They are pleasant and often honest companions. They like the give and take of real debate.
But you, Benji. You gotta real problem here. You have heard that song that says something about let your love shine through. Here in these threads, your hate shines through.
Everyone can see it Benji O'Minnow. They are too polite to say so sometimes. People don't always know how to respond to hate sometimes. Hate is where the real "ugly" is Benji. It's your hate that is eating you from the inside out.
Allie is right. People are too damn polite when they confront what is truly ugly. It isn't the surface we have to worry about with you, is it Benji. It's what's inside.
You let your hate shine through. Even those strippers you have so much contempt for could see it, couldn't they Benji? You don't think they are very smart but they could see you Benji, just like the rest of us can but are too polite to say so.
You HATE women Benji. You really really do. Strippers, college-educated or not can see it in you.
I could make a few guesses. Remember the rapist I mentioned earlier?
He grew up with a mother who had lots and lots of male companionship. She divorced quite a bit, but mostly she didn't bother with marriage. We will call the rapist Rupert. Rupert the Rapist.
Poor Rupert. He spent a lot of time in foster care. He also had a younger brother who had been in prison. Stealing was the younger brother's game. Rupert and Robert, let's call them.
In foster care, Rupert had to spend lots of time making sure people didn't bully Robert. Rupert was a tall guy and Robert was little. (They did not have the same fathers.) Eventually, they were both sent to what they called reform school then. Again Rupert had to spend time making sure the other guys did not rape Robert.
Some things about their childhood Rupert didn't like to talk about, but one thing he was clear on: Women were bitches.
Boys whose mommys do not treat them right grow up with lots of problems.
Traditionally patriarchy has meant that men get to do backbreaking work, provide all the money, and get sent off to war, have heart attacks, and die young.
It has meant that women get to bear more babies than they wanted, work their hands raw, get batted around when their husbands found life so untenable that relief from despair could only be found in the bottom of a bottle. Women also got to die young, sometimes from childbirth.
I describe my grandfather's and grandmother's life above.
Patriarchy was a killer for both sexes. Patriarchy is what we have when brute force rules. Patriarchy subliminated is what we have when men (sometimes women) of power get to decide who lives and who dies based upon the war profits that they want to enjoy.
Patriarchy is what we get when men and women are so set against each other that neither of them get it that they are both "Just workin' for the Man."
his/her arguments were more intelligent.
Pathos and Logos,
Neither he knows.
Doesn't even know Eros.
And boy is he slow.
Ideally children need both parents.
However, if you eliminate all the women there would be no human race.
That is probably okay with you. You HATE half the human race anyway.
Maybe it was all that talk about cats lately, but my canine teeth seem to have grown and I feel "meaner than a junkyard dog."
I know Ben is a bone almost too small to worry about, but I am having a hell of a lot of fun!
Oh, oh. Is it still almost a full moon? Oh shit. There is still hair on my face. I sure thought I had remembered to take my werewolf pills.
He doesn't like admitting that rape itself is wrong.
If that girl were a fourteen year old virgin, he would probably still argue that she shouldn't have been at the party and deserved what she got.
Let's here it from you Benji. Don't let your character be impuned. Do you believe rape is possible? Do you believe rape is rape?
What categories of people is it okay to rape?
While I was toying with your brain I made homemade fish seafood chowder: Oysters, cod, clams, and onions in a cream broth with fresh dill and white cheddar. I also made homemade cornbread with hominy. Earlier I had my salad. For dessert there is almond-flavored pudding with toasted almonds. (I confess that I shall partly use a mix.)
In the morning, I promise you Bay-BEE that I will get on the treadmill. I don't want to get too heavy for you Benji -- even though I can fight in the heavyweight class compared to your featherweight (brainwise). Now while I am gone, why don't you look up pathos and logos in the rhetorical sense.
BTW, I wouldn't scorn heavy girls if I were you. They read more books. BOOKS, Ben O'Minnow! You just won't keep my interest if you don't read more books and I will end up running off with someone strange like Sham Man, who can think rings around you.
It was a great date kid. I had loads of fun. Be faithful now. Don't go running off with one of those strippers.
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