I look back on my life and know, while I enjoyed it ,it was mostly wasted doing just that until I turned about mid 30,s
Yet I continue to learn and to grow.
While my efforts in print here are better than my first, I have been around forums bad spelling and all for ages.
We humans are a bit hard to read, but I have changed here in OLO.
Not the basic model, still a bit rough around the edgers.
But remember how wild I used to get?, one group got me going every day.
No intention ever to stop being me, but I now know enough to not bother getting in to a blue with a few,not worth the effort.
Such people want and will have the last word, the last insult.
The insulting of Lexi, the inference she is other than a nice person content to be herself is?
Well no, not going there the thread continues to be of use, thought it would die long ago.
But even showing why we need a moderator now.
LOVE women, all of them, but not the imposing type the I am in charge ones, stay away from them.
You can bet some will get in to me for that truth, but in doing so put the overbearing hat on that I avoid.
Lexi stay please, you are strong and you are respected.

Lilith,

though I'm all for disrupting male hegemony, on OLO and the real world, I'm sure you'll agree that (in my opinion most) women too uphold the patriarchy and subscribe to their own suppression. And I can tell you, here in OLO land many of the women form cliques (o-so-sweet) as much as some of the men (macho of course) do. I like to think of myself as a pariah on all sides. I've often observed that women, over half the population, have the power to change the world--but nothing seems to be happening? Patriarchy or not, I think women, as a class, are more conservative than the men--any tradition's a good tradition and ought to be preserved. God save the Queen and the Pope and wrap me in the flag and all that. Women could close down the Vatican in a week, or at least change it's misogynist policies, just by not putting their bums on pews (I wonder what the gender break-up is with church goers?), but they seem quite happy, even eager, to get on their knees before men?
Thus, I don't think we have a gender divide, just a vast androgeneous/homogeneous/hegemoneous(?) popular centre, around whose margins people like you and I harass and scold and tire ourselves out. Ain't it fun!
So what do you say; who are the worst misogynists, the men or the women?

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I for one want to lodge a protest. From what I remember of the deleted post there was nothing untoward. It certainly didn't constitute flaming, did it?
Surely my last post was no less, facetiously, offensive?
We are getting thin-skinned..

i too dont recall..any insult upon my manhood

i feel we need more woman..to take the problem..in both typing-hands
and give men..a good...shake-up...[wake-up/call]

god bless..*strong women..!

the more we got..speaking up*
..the better..the forum becomes..

of course..i reserve my right of reply
im only..after all a poor man
oppressed since birth..by my mummy

[oh boy..is that going to come back and bite me]
better throw in some extra..

i miss you piper
i know..*your new id name

pope joan
[dont let on folks]

the only pope..*ever*..to have given birth*...while a pope

[many of the so called..mary/jesus paintings
record the miraculous birth..done by pope joan]

[it began a new test..for ALL..the popes..that follow]
it involves sitting in a hollow seat..with the dangly bits being verified..by a pope qualifier*

to verify..your really a peter..not a petra

its fact folks..!

google it up..
and you thought..you knew it all...lol

ok..i heard it first..from a STRONG-woman
but it checks out..*regardless

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