Friday, March 12, 2004
Who's Got it Worse, Guys or Girls--my response posted to a very active BB topic ~
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Whose got it worse in terms of what though? The question is too broad to answer definitively. It's all relative.
Biologically speaking--men do not risk their lives carrying a fetus inside their body or giving birth with all its complications when it's time. That is what I consider a major difference biologically--so I would say men have an advantage there.
When you start adding *social structure* to the mix though, it starts to get complicated and the scales kind of tip either way at any one point in time.
Cave Man--risks life to get food by hunting dangerous animals. Risks life when he wants to steal his cave mates wife for his own.
Cave woman--risks life to carry a child, give birth, including risk of infection or trauma after giving birth.
Around this time, there were a lot of matriarichal(can't spell that) cultures, because guys thought women were blessed by the gods--only women could magically make other people appear like that, even though they were kinda small. That i'm sure sucked for the guys so they began to revolt and repress the womenfolk. On top of that, you also had to compete with your neighbor for scarce resources and it's all downhill from there.
Oh yeah, pretty soon the men got the idea to banish women from the rest of the group during mensturation because, "well what's up with that anyway!!" Thus, the blood hut came into fashion. It turned out that was *the* place to be & guys were not allowed, the first ladies club, ha,ha,ha. So women can have it kind of rough, but they are creative and try to make things fun and nice.
I'm glad I'm female, I like being a female. That doesn't mean I have it better than guys because I happen to be happy with my sex. I enjoy my feminine aspects--the personality of it--not particullarly all the biology that goes with being a women. kst
[i just pasted this in with no corrections or revisions]
Whose got it worse in terms of what though? The question is too broad to answer definitively. It's all relative.
Biologically speaking--men do not risk their lives carrying a fetus inside their body or giving birth with all its complications when it's time. That is what I consider a major difference biologically--so I would say men have an advantage there.
When you start adding *social structure* to the mix though, it starts to get complicated and the scales kind of tip either way at any one point in time.
Cave Man--risks life to get food by hunting dangerous animals. Risks life when he wants to steal his cave mates wife for his own.
Cave woman--risks life to carry a child, give birth, including risk of infection or trauma after giving birth.
Around this time, there were a lot of matriarichal(can't spell that) cultures, because guys thought women were blessed by the gods--only women could magically make other people appear like that, even though they were kinda small. That i'm sure sucked for the guys so they began to revolt and repress the womenfolk. On top of that, you also had to compete with your neighbor for scarce resources and it's all downhill from there.
Oh yeah, pretty soon the men got the idea to banish women from the rest of the group during mensturation because, "well what's up with that anyway!!" Thus, the blood hut came into fashion. It turned out that was *the* place to be & guys were not allowed, the first ladies club, ha,ha,ha. So women can have it kind of rough, but they are creative and try to make things fun and nice.
I'm glad I'm female, I like being a female. That doesn't mean I have it better than guys because I happen to be happy with my sex. I enjoy my feminine aspects--the personality of it--not particullarly all the biology that goes with being a women. kst
A Warning about Plagiarism !!!
Here's a lesson for you wacky teens and college kids--don't let the temptation of 15 minutes of fame seduce you into plagiarism or God just may smite you dead!
I was all over the internet today, playing catch up from a somewhat long absence on the web and I came across the snope's site to indulge in some urban legend material. What surprised me was the seed of one particularly vapid legend known as The Room and various other titles, had germanated right my own hometown--and once it did it spread like kudzu across cyberspace. Man, where was I went all this happened? All I ever get in my mail Little Teddy Stoddard.
Anyway................
I'm reading the bittersweet story of Brian Moore, a local teen who in 1997 receives a visit from Jesus one night. Jesus proceeds to show him via a card filing system (Bruce Almighty rings a bell,here) detailing all of the things in Brian's life and then, humbled by his sins, gives himself to Christ right then and there. This inspires him, Brian, not Jesus, to write a poigniant essay about his epiphany. Regrettfully though, a few days later, he is met with an untimely death. Brian's "essay," found in his locker by students is read as a eulogy at his funeral. A year later it is printed in the Columbus Dispatch by his parents as a memorial. By this time the essay and the story of the author had swirled around cyberspace, thriving and mutating among emails and newsgroups and probably will pop up again no doubt...why, look, here it is again!
Eventually it is revealed that the teen was not the author of the "essay," but that he had filtched it from another source and claimed it as his own.
According to the Dispatch article of June 2, 1999, by Jill Riepenhoff, of which I will quote from, below, Joshua Harris was the real author. It had been previously published in 1995 in New Attitude magazine and again in Harris' book, I Kissed Dating Goodbye.
Brian's mother, when given the news exclaims, as you can imagine,
[from the Dispatch]
"I had no idea....I'm positive he said he wrote this. If he was here, I'd wring his neck."
And:
"I'm just embarrassed to death,"
So how did Brian meet his fate?
[Actual quote from the Dispatch]
Brian died after his car ran off a road in rural Pickaway County and struck a utility pole. He escaped without injuries but then stepped on a downed power line as he went for help and was electrocuted.
kst
Here's a lesson for you wacky teens and college kids--don't let the temptation of 15 minutes of fame seduce you into plagiarism or God just may smite you dead!
I was all over the internet today, playing catch up from a somewhat long absence on the web and I came across the snope's site to indulge in some urban legend material. What surprised me was the seed of one particularly vapid legend known as The Room and various other titles, had germanated right my own hometown--and once it did it spread like kudzu across cyberspace. Man, where was I went all this happened? All I ever get in my mail Little Teddy Stoddard.
Anyway................
I'm reading the bittersweet story of Brian Moore, a local teen who in 1997 receives a visit from Jesus one night. Jesus proceeds to show him via a card filing system (Bruce Almighty rings a bell,here) detailing all of the things in Brian's life and then, humbled by his sins, gives himself to Christ right then and there. This inspires him, Brian, not Jesus, to write a poigniant essay about his epiphany. Regrettfully though, a few days later, he is met with an untimely death. Brian's "essay," found in his locker by students is read as a eulogy at his funeral. A year later it is printed in the Columbus Dispatch by his parents as a memorial. By this time the essay and the story of the author had swirled around cyberspace, thriving and mutating among emails and newsgroups and probably will pop up again no doubt...why, look, here it is again!
Eventually it is revealed that the teen was not the author of the "essay," but that he had filtched it from another source and claimed it as his own.
According to the Dispatch article of June 2, 1999, by Jill Riepenhoff, of which I will quote from, below, Joshua Harris was the real author. It had been previously published in 1995 in New Attitude magazine and again in Harris' book, I Kissed Dating Goodbye.
Brian's mother, when given the news exclaims, as you can imagine,
[from the Dispatch]
"I had no idea....I'm positive he said he wrote this. If he was here, I'd wring his neck."
And:
"I'm just embarrassed to death,"
So how did Brian meet his fate?
[Actual quote from the Dispatch]
Brian died after his car ran off a road in rural Pickaway County and struck a utility pole. He escaped without injuries but then stepped on a downed power line as he went for help and was electrocuted.
kst
Thursday, March 11, 2004
The well-dressed wankel rotary engine kissed the heavily marbled toad-licker.~~
This site has potential, but they need to add more words in the data base. It can be tiresome reading about the same old wankels, hamsters and lawnmowers. kst
Click here for assorted wankery
This site has potential, but they need to add more words in the data base. It can be tiresome reading about the same old wankels, hamsters and lawnmowers. kst
Click here for assorted wankery
Tuesday, March 09, 2004
Revenge of the Nerds
The DEA is taking an interesting aboutface on the use of ecstacy:
the Village VoiceBad Science Slandered a Generation's Favorite Drug. Now a New Study Aims to Undo the Damage.
The Ecstasy Factor
by Carla Spartos
March 10 - 16, 2004
It has issued a licencse to Dr. Michael Mithoefer for the legal purchase of the drug for use in psychiatric research projects. Not funny is last weekend a nightclub was shut down by authority based on the RAVE ACT, a bill passed last april based on information from a research study gone awry. The same research
that initiated the about face from the DEA, 'well, ok, i guess its ok to use it sometimes....'
the Village VoiceBad Science Slandered a Generation's Favorite Drug. Now a New Study Aims to Undo the Damage.
The Ecstasy Factor
by Carla Spartos
March 10 - 16, 2004
It has issued a licencse to Dr. Michael Mithoefer for the legal purchase of the drug for use in psychiatric research projects. Not funny is last weekend a nightclub was shut down by authority based on the RAVE ACT, a bill passed last april based on information from a research study gone awry. The same research
that initiated the about face from the DEA, 'well, ok, i guess its ok to use it sometimes....'
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