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audra trower williams
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posted 09 July 2002 05:08 PM
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Man, it is so hard to live down that sugar-and-spice rep. We women try, Lord do we try, and still people are shocked -- shocked! -- when we are mean to each other, humiliate our partners, scream at our children, spread nasty rumors, lie on our résumés, embezzle from our employers, demean our employees, give slower drivers the finger, have extramarital affairs, commit murder, enter the military, join the Aryan Nation or the Islamic Jihad, and fail to send Christmas cards to the family. How dare women behave like ... like ... people?
How, indeed!
From: And I'm a look you in the eye for every bar of the chorus | Registered: Apr 2001
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Timebandit
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posted 09 July 2002 10:05 PM
Well, being mean and all, it's hard to find a chink in the armour...  Edited to add: quote:
I am all ears, mwahaha...
You're Mickey Mouse's evil twin?! Who'da thunk!  [ July 09, 2002: Message edited by: Zoot Capri ]
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DrConway
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posted 09 July 2002 10:12 PM
I've always found that girls (well, I should say women, but... there's the thread title) have the ability to gain a more nuanced understanding of just about anything.Just about every left-winger I know in the virtual world tends to more often than not be a woman. And even a quick check of voting patterns reveals that generally women vote left more so than men. So I'm not sure what makes women be mean to each other. 
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nonsuch
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posted 09 July 2002 11:27 PM
It's always been there, it just used to be disguised a lot better. In the old days, we had to be sneaky-mean, which required patience, subtlety and a superior command of language (both verbal and body) rather than in-your-face mean, which requires only malice.
I prefer the old way: it gave me a chance to exercise all my best talents: observation, inductive reasoning, pattern-recognition, timing and insinuation. Now that meanness is flaunted and glorified, any crude idiot can practise it. Takes the challenge right out.[ July 09, 2002: Message edited by: nonesuch ]
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shabbadoo
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posted 10 July 2002 01:24 AM
girls are cool...i love 'em. especially the mean and nasty ones!bring 'em on!
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shabbadoo
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posted 10 July 2002 02:24 AM
is this the haiku section?
pooped out
red, rough and sore
drinkin' too much Red Cap
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skdadl
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posted 10 July 2002 09:55 AM
I like to think that I only get nasty precisely when people are expecting more of me because I am a woman and therefore must be endlessly patient and understanding and empathetic ... which, of course!, I am!!! -- but only if I'm allowed to volunteer for those tasks, eh? (Does anyone else follow that logic?) quote:
it gave me a chance to exercise all my best talents: observation, inductive reasoning, pattern-recognition, timing and insinuation. Now that meanness is flaunted and glorified, any crude idiot can practise it. Takes the challenge right out.
Hee hee. I think there's still some general truth in the claim that dependence makes people more psychologically acute and subtle, and so many women were dependent for so long. Maybe things are changing; do we think things are changing? My women friends are all still pretty subtle, mainly in the good, empathetic ways -- but I still see the odd scalpel artfully inserted now and then.
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Timebandit
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posted 10 July 2002 07:23 PM
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I prefer the old way: it gave me a chance to exercise all my best talents: observation, inductive reasoning, pattern-recognition, timing and insinuation. Now that meanness is flaunted and glorified, any crude idiot can practise it. Takes the challenge right out.
My mother still practices mean the old fashioned way.... Ouch!  quote:
...because I am a woman and therefore must be endlessly patient and understanding and empathetic ... which, of course!, I am!!! -- but only if I'm allowed to volunteer for those tasks, eh? (Does anyone else follow that logic?)
I absolutely do. It's much easier to put the effort into it if it at least looks like you have a choice. You know, thinking of mean things other women have done to me, I think the majority were very underhanded and certainly were not direct. Direct mean I can handle. Sneakiness is definitely worse. I only, for the record, do direct mean. 
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