Dear Antiseptic,

I actually don't think about feminism at all.
Never have. I, like so many others - male
and female - simply live my life best as I can
and do what needs to be done as much as I'm able.
As for your disclaimers - you're entitled to them.
However, I would bet that I'm not the only person
on this forum you thinks you have issues regarding
females.

Lexi:"I actually don't think about feminism at all."

So much is obvious, yet you respond aggeessively when feminist doctrine is challenged. Why is that?

Lexi:"I, like so many others - male
and female - simply live my life best as I can"

As we all do. however, I also like to observe the forces that are shaping my world. I am self-employed, which means it behooves me to take notice of factors which you, as an employee in a line of work which is about as non-competitive as it is possible to get, simply have no interest in looking at.

That's fair enough, but it frustrates me immensely that you're obviously intelligent, but you speak so often in platitudes and repeat other people's thoughts with little effort to put your own interpretation on them.

Now, you might not agree with my intrpretation of the importance of some of these forces, but that's why I post - to read the view askance. It's only by doing so that we can achieve a proper understanding of issues.

I've mentioned before that my background is in science and engineering. The primary drive in those fields is to question everything. An engineer who relies on other people's tables for his design without doing a proper analysis can only be at best a hack and at worst a disaster waiting to happen. He can never produce anything truly new or inspiring.

I think we have lots of people in bureaucracy and government who are very content to rely on someone else's tables for everything they design. No wonder we have such an ugly outcome.

Dear Antiseptic,

I think you've hit the nail on the head this
time - and I've been saying the same thing
over many threads and posts in the past.

We are who we are as a result of our education,
upbringing, past experiences, et cetera.

You're from a science and engineering background.
That's terrific. My is a humanities background,
majoring in literature. So much for that.
I was raised to always put others first. Professionally
as you know libraries have always been very structured
places - where one simply didn't question much at all.
So I suppose some old habits die hard. It was only
when I travelled overseas - that I changed and began
to question things. Anyway, I'm not going to go into
my history here - there's too much of it to explain
in 350 words - most of it quite personal - and not
appropriate to explain on a public forum.

But yeah, I can see where our backgrounds play a vital
part in the way we react to things. That doesn't mean
of course that we can't try to change.

cont'd ...

Why do I react so strongly to the "feminism" label?
Why do you keep bandying the label about?
Take an intelligent guess. I don't like labels.
Of any kind.

Lexi:"I don't like labels.
Of any kind."

Lexi:"you've got such a strong negative
view of women. "

Lexi:"Your continuing rants about feminism, et cetera"

Lexi:"you have issues regarding
females."

You really have no idea what you think, do you? You're not even a hypocrite.

LOL!