Split from "Females"

[Steve Weiss]

This thread has been split and locked from here (http://www.iidb.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=205049) because not only do the posts not contribute to the topic, but they're egregiously nasty and not worthy of the fine people that post here. Let us learn by example and follow this dictate:

Every time you use "you" in a post it's a warning sign that you're not addressing the argument.

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Sometimes I just can believe the stereotypes brought up by Steve Weiss on this thread. It is very sad. It's people like him just confirm my cynicism of males and humans in general.

I've always wanted to be a genius at something, but so many people have told me that because I'm female "Why are you interested in those things?" and "You're weird," "I hate science, I can't understand why you like it so much," "Eew insects (or other biological specimens) are gross, you're a weird girl!" "Women are less rational than males, that's why God made men the leader of the household," etc. and it's difficult to achieve what I'd like (I'll probably never achieve it now) because no one really encouraged me to persue what I loved. They tried to get me to play with dolls, look pretty, and stuff like that (which even as a little girl, I took as an insult).

It makes me so mad! I'm not just a fricken baby-making machine!!!!! That's NOT what I want to do with my life! I have many interests and talents, but I'm afraid they it will all be a fruitless waste tossed into the black hole that is this this fricken wasteland that is this society and this sucky, crappy world!!!! Maybe I should create my own world and live in it and keep every freaking other person out of it so I can have some peace!

There seems to be more than just an element of paranoia in the above. Why don't you just get on with your life and stop agonizing over it?

[Steve Weiss]

I guess they are not because I can see you and I have nothing in common.

I don't think I should interact with males, then because obviously they're an entirely different species and we have nothing in common. Who wants to spend time with people who one has nothing remotely in common with? Then again, most females get on my nerves too. Might as well avoid everyone on this sick planet.

Hey Deep, what planet are you moving to? Sounds kind of lonely there to me.

[Steve Weiss]

A good question.

Though personally, I don't want to be seen as a good-looking but mindless meatbag.

Sometimes I feel like a mind in an unsuitable container. At times I wish I didn't have a body for people to look at. I'd like to be genderless . . . maybe not even human. But that's just me.

I'm sure a therapist would find your comments very interesting.

[Steve Weiss]

Wow! I hear these sorts of 'arguments' from men all the time! When I'm severely depressed men will think it's hormonal (PMS). I don't get PMS. I get depression that sometimes lasts for months or years! It's not PMS! Why is it that men think if a woman is upset, sad, angry it must be caused by female hormones???? UGH! Yet men can be aggressive angry jerks and they're simply 'angry'?



Hahahaha! So true! My dad says he hates shopping and yet he buys more junk than anyone! And I mostly hear my male classmates talk about 1.) sports 2.) sex / who's 'hot' 3.) movies and TV! Wow. It doesn't get much deeper than that. :rolleyes:



This one is really sad. It's like "Oh my gosh! The father is actually taking his kids to the movies! Wow, isn't that nice?" but most of the time he's never home or he's too busy watching TV or whatever to spend time with the kids. Yet for all the things the mother has to do, she is usually never thanked or thought of as nice, 'sweet,' etc. She's 'just another housemom' doing her duties. I see this sort of thing all the time.


And you are not angry? Pissed off that you didn't get a penis?

[aegis]

You have posted a series of unsupported ("faith based")assertions, one apparently based on a survey you heard about on a "local radio station". I posted the results of a study that refuted that assertion. You have not commented on that. You have simply made another series of apparently "faith based" assertions.

I have made no unsupported assertions. Although I am a theist, I have not even asserted that "God exists". Yet you have the gall to insist that you cannot discuss "faith" with me unless I first reject it.

Is it any surprise to you that other people don't want to discuss philosopy, science, maths with you? A discussion with someone who merely asserts things to be true without argument or evidence is not possible, as I am sure you will be the first to agree. And yet you have done this, and I have not.

I don't think females are the problem here, Steve. Think about it.

Cheers

Lizzie

I think you're wasting your time talking to him.

[peanutaxis]

I think you're wasting your time talking to him.

I think he might be drunk. Seriously.

[Febble]

I think he might be drunk. Seriously.

Ah.

[DeepWaters]

And you are not angry? Pissed off that you didn't get a penis?

Why would I want a penis when I'd rather think with my head?

[DeepWaters]

Not just physical differences. Men are from Mars and women are from Vensus.

Never heard of that planet, but I've heard of Venus.

(I concur . . . he probably is drunk.)

[DeepWaters]

Many of you amateur psychologizers heap invalid assumption upon assumption. Maybe I have never met an intelligent woman? My first wife, though very mentally unbalanced in the view of her therapist, was of genius IQ. She was an assistant US attorney, could speak fluent Russian, could sing opera, was a damn good athlete, played the violin and piano, worked for a US senator, etc., etc. My second wife is a project manager for a very big IT company and has been assigned to mainland China, Barbados, and numerous other places. None of that contradicts the fact that these persons are females with all of the traits that make them so. They didn't cry like a baby because they are discriminated against; they just got on with living. Sorry, I'm not sympathetic to your sob stories, not because I never met a capable women, but because I have.

Hmm. I wonder why those two intelligent females left you . . .