Letters to the Editor
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i think i started this gender fight, but i've changed my mind
it was way back on page 3, entitled "the lady or the tiger?" (i hadn't realized how prescient that title was!) i was careful in my phrasing so i didn't get flamed, but it was clear what my beliefs were. it turned out not so. many females were on the "wrong" side and so were the "males" (as much as could be gleaned by the aliases) "SOME" is a very uncomfortable adverb for our emotions ("SOME men are cads!"?) but it's worse than that. there are seemingly an infinite number of reactions. not just two. so the mind searches for another absolute dichotomy. pigs and decents or, taking the other side, justice and wimphood. what can you do but shrug? but that does not lead to conversation. so as the answer to the fable was, this was too, it depends on the onlooker. i'll put the original post here, because i'm proud of it (flameproof, yet obvious) "the lady or the tiger?" the responses seem evenly split. what would be interesting is how they divide by gender. i'd guess that most of the males(excluding Cary of course) would say give it back, it isn't yours and the females would say, take it, you earned it. but who knows? this may be an entirely different world than i grew up in."