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Insane thoughts...
pandora wrote: "PolishKnight" wrote in message news:marek1-646C65.17453522102006@news... I glanced at it some time ago and thought about a response. Take it as a compliment: I found the notion of you claiming that powerless sexist chumps required massive government programs to protect empowered women to be rather thought provoking. And I find nothing thought provoking about you in any way/shape/form. You are quite insane. Ironically, I find that statement very thought provoking as well. The term insanity is used in many ways including as a pejorative or a description of a clinical condition. Insanity has sometimes resulted in bursts of creativity that have helped move mankind's progress forward and is well represented in the arts. If anything, I would imagine that insanity would be thought provoking rather than not. When discussing insanity as a clinical condition, it's not an accusation that's made by a gentlemanly person simply to score points in a debate. The mental-health profession has been dogged by a reputation for administering care poorly and for misdiagnosis. People who make an effort to seek care often wind up with a social stigma. I am honestly not posturing when I say that I find such an accusation used casually to be incredibly low class and inhumane. On a less grave note: It's difficult to diagnose and treat insanity when so many people are so limited in their thinking as to not fully understand it or even jump to the conclusion that someone is insane for simply thinking beyond social or personal norms. There are people today who are terrified to set foot on an airplane because they see quite clearly that things fall down and crash. Immigrants with different traditions were viewed as mentally inferior for acting in a different fashion. Therefore, when you propose that something I'm thinking is insane, I ask myself whether you mean that it seems incredulous to you that I would disagree with a status-quo philosophy, feminism, that is now apparently unquestionable in most government institutions. I am not so insane as to pretend that such institutions and social attitudes do not exist. On the contrary: I see the insanity and instability of a system that pretends that women are equal while at the same time treats them as perpetually helpless victims. Systems can be insane even if the individuals dealing with them aren't. Ever go to the DMV? One of the rather magical principles some brilliant businesspeople I have met tell me is that the moment someone comes up with a good business idea, it's usually put into effect by someone else. It often frustrates them just how quick and adaptive people are! So for me, exploring the gaping flaws and contradictions in a philosophy which regards men as a second class citizen is almost if not more effective than fighting it directly. Accuse people whose ideas you find repugnant insane, if you like, but you'll be hard pressed to deny they're thought provoking. Anything that gets your attention to denounce them has some kind of merit. Times change and with change, comes new opportunities and challenges. That's when nature seperates those whose ideas are founded totally upon the status quo from those who can rise and meet new challenges. Men have done that for millennia for both good and bad reasons. Sooner rather than later, women who buy your ideals will have to stand on their own merit without their oppressors/benefactors to fall back on. And it won't matter one bit what they believe. That's reality. regards, PolishKnight |
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