Well, Grumpus, reasonable minds can disagree on matters of taste such as the one we're discussing. Let's return now to your original statement that provoked the current tangent:

But, yeah, writing Science FIction is just as valuable as eradicating Malaria. You're a laughable clown.

Are you suggesting that because you have worked to eradicate malaria, while Kurt Vonnegut spent most of his life writing about trafalmador and such (exaggeration for emphasis, yes i know he served in the army), your work/contribution to humanity is "more valuable" than Vonnegut's?

rofl

But I still find the genre to be kidstuff... If I want the human condition, I'll take it without space cruisers, thanks.

Damn, that is a stupid thing to say. You're saying that Ray Bradbury and a large chunk of Kurt Vonnegut are all "kidstuff"?

Um, okay...

I mean, you're also the guy who said that anything that's not talked about in the "real world" is a "dead end."

But, yeah, writing Science FIction is just as valuable as eradicating Malaria. You're a laughable clown.

Your POV (all your pitiable pettiness aside) strikes me as incredibly dark and base.

I have no capacity for creative work. Whatever capacity I have had is gone after many years of doing CS, finance and now law. However, I have a great capacity for appreciating the fruits of creative people's labors. The older I get, the more amazed I am that someone who is a mere human like myself managed to write a particular book or compose and perform a particular piece of music. These contributions to humanity -- the arts, literature, philosophy, etc. are invaluable, IMHO, and I am so grateful that these people went into painting, dancing, composing, writing, rather than the law, like I have, because without them, my life would be a gray, dark place with no beauty.

You repeatedly imply with your disdain for the arts and "navel-gazing" pursuits that you hold his work in very low value, and that you would prefer that people go into "practical" pursuits, "solving real problems." I find that soul-crushingly sad.

So Baby Grumpus, even though he's so busy with his job and MA and kids, comes here to wind up humorless feminazis and call them names?

Nice. You stay classy, Grumpy.

Um, when I said "Iron my shirt" i was referring to Hillary's hecklers. So far, i've yet to see female hecklers yell at a male candidate that where he belongs is changing the of their cars.

It's not the same.

Heh - so now you've devolved into parsing the oppositional nature of my sentences? Thanks for proving my point about the uselessness of postmodern navel-gazing.

So now you're attacking my technique rather than the merits of my arguments? hahah

Also, you ought to be ashamed of yourself for comparing women's status to that of the disabled. That's just disgraceful and indicitive of the muddy, relativistic thinking that poststructuralism produces.

That's pretty pathetic, don't you think?

I'll talk all this as a white flag.

I wonder what your wife thinks about your thoughts about women complaining of sexism. What if your daughter gets discriminated against? Will you tell her to stop whining and enjoy what she's got, even if it's not as much as men have?