Take Back the Blog! regatta.

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You're waaaaaay off kilter on this one, Joan--recall those lovely 2005 pie wars.

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Markos refused to "get it," and parenting hasn't changed his misogynistic tune one iota. I expect more maturity from a 36 yr. old (who is hardly 'progressive', BTW)...he's formerly a Rockefeller Republican...trashes so-called "single issue" (baited code words) feminists all of the time.

I pity his daughter.

"Sanctimonious women's studies set," my arse.

Fuck Kos--he's not "God."

It's time to cripple his proverbial bottom line; and put his in his "place."

Sound familiar?

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comments about the right to bear arms immediately after the tragedy, I have no problem with criticizing the President. It's not him or any member of his family whom we are mourning.

I don't think Katrina is the right comparison though. Just think about the very minimal efforts he and his autopen wielding former Secretary of Defense made to show their concern and sympathy for those who actually died in his war.

Into an insiders blog commenting to other insiders about some other insiders. It's getting harder and harder to take it seriously.

as you very well know, Wild Iris, you wouldn't have written her if she weren't.

they know everything they ever would want to know already.

i know your style, and that wasn't it. i just took the opportunity to write you when you vowed to ignore me ("ignore the troll, he'll give up" - or something like that) as you see, i've NOT given up. i'm smiling. are you happy? you made me happy - to fool you. ok, we DON'T hate each other. and you DO read my posts, as i do yours. it's not necessary for us to be friends, we can learn from each other.

Decide for yourself, sugarman. I was just trying to point someone with a question to a possible source for further thought/discussion.

I personally could not care less about your personal preferences or those of your progeny, but if Yellow Dog really wants to know more about this topic, s/he now has something to look into. It's really not your place to stop Yellow Dog's desire to explore this topic further by throwing in your family anecdotes, however fascinating you think them to be.

I am not the anonymous you refer to and do not belong to a knitting circle.

For one thing, I would have to read your posts in order to comment on them. But the format, the asterisks, the lack of punctuation, are pretty uninviting so I skip over them. I only happened to read that last one because it was unusually short and my name was at the end of a line and jumped out at me.

In future, please leave me out of your comments, and you can be sure that I will also leave you out of mine.

parents want their children to do well. if those children all are girls, they'd naturally want change (in girls' favor). what do you think about families (just your guess) with *both*? [that was a trick question, you can't *know*.] i have a girl and two boys. the girl is ambitious hardworking and does well in school and work and relationships (and has her own (inner) independence - she gets along with others very well). other than that, she's on the conservative side. the next is a boy, he's a mathematician - *artist* as mathematician. thinks only about math. good looking, but doesn't care. cooperative and has friends, but really is only interested in his algebraic topology, not money or relationships or really anything else. he's bohemian in its broadest sense. my youngest is lazy like me, very clever, very intuitive, but, if he has ambitions for *anything* has kept them secret from me. Answer? you really can't tell.

I remember reading an article around election time, maybe even here, that cited a study that found families with boys are generally more conservative than families with girls. Basically, the families with boys have more of an interest in maintaining the status quo than families with girls, so I think your observation about the progressiveness of families with all girls may not be too far off.

as for my mouth, who's going to do it? you? someone who doesn't even dare sign a handle? and just because a know-it-all thinks no one can learn from someone else's experience, doesn't mean others wouldn't. and that's why i speak, for *them*, not for *you*. next time, i'm not going to respond unless you sign your handle, karen. and you tell that to your knitting circle.

You are quite pathetic. Please research your etymology before you colour your coarse writings with terms of no redeeming value. Your potty mouth could use a good old-fashioned bar of soap.

but you can never really be sure, from the language and opinions, OutragedGuy reads like OutragedGirl. words' offensiveness can only be taken in context - specifically the context of group that uses them. i was shocked that black people would use j******* out loud while bowdlerizing "the "n" word" - but then, they wouldn't *know* that the Klan is the context of that word, would they? now i'm going to give the male context of various female related words, as far as i know. the "c* word is offensive to Walsh - she deletes it and writes it that way. it is also offensive to american males, but NOT as used in Lady Chatterley's Lover, there the scottish gamekeeper uses it as some sort of Goddess Principle. men wouldn't use "vagina" any more than they would use "i got hit in the testicles" - too clinical. doctor's talk. "pussy" is not derogatory at all, it's friendly - soft and nice, just like it sounds. it has an entirely different meaning as well, the opposite of courage, as contrasted with "balls" - makes sense, linguistically. the true connotation of "twat" is unknown to me. i just don't know people that use it, similar to j* to blacks (and most whites but for its "promulgation" by the sick spike lee). what other words are there? many i guess, humans love sex. "snatch" is coarse, locker room talk. insulting. putting down. but not usually threatening. here's a joke with the word (from New Hampshire). "what is the difference between a young man and an old boy? one snatches kisses the other kisses snatches."