Posted: Dec 18, 2007, 4:04 PM CST
In response to:
Dear Ray, you have gone too far!
To place oneself in a position of superiority over another simply invites downfall.
All the more so when it is our female allies!
You will learn that it's is pointless to imply one sex has greater or lesser value over another...it mearly invites un-necessary contention.
Pardon me for saying this, but a TRULY intellectually capable person should be aware of their limits - the limits of such a flawed vessel as we ALL are ultimately.
Surely the apogee of all knowledge and learning is to seek peaceful relations with all whom we encounter?
To seek amity and genuine ease of interaction with all IS all my man!
Denente, you have been the voice of reason on this post while I have had to descend into madness (familiar territory for me and my method). However, women who have read these posts should be happy to know (I hope) that before I made the 'are women equal to men thread' I sent a post to my friend Yumie explaining what I was about to do and why (to do otherwise would be suicide).
I wanted to see how women would react to the question of sexual equality under the infuriating tones and implications pertaining to a distinct and clear ‘accusatory lack’ of equality (indeed more like ‘an accusation of INequality’ in disguise); I wanted to see how women, like soldiers ‘under fire’ would react to counter this as though under male-dominant societal/social suppression and its accompanying overtones itself? . . . level-headed? . . . mad and filled with rage? . . .unable to handle it? . . . dispassionately and calmly (and therefore most effectively – I was indeed surprised by some) . . . etc . . .
Speaking of surprise, the element of surprise has unfortunately gone, but had I had the time yesterday I would indeed have followed the posts up with those following points I assure you (but maybe I was saved by circumstance, because from the reaction I got from the original points some women [one in particular] utterly lost it) Now they're calm and cool under fire but the very affect I was striving for is therefore gone, because now my 'victims' are ‘in the know’ . . . yesterday they were fuming and seething and indeed it was hornets nest . . .
My apologies for using you as guinea pigs, but, hey, you all practically volunteered I just laid out the bait – and even warned you that it was bait so I make no apology for that part.
As you will see from Yumie, I do not actually believe that man is 'greater' than woman, however having said that, I DO believe man and woman are not equal and that the notion is in itself idiotic. However I wanted to see women's ‘rational’ ideas FOR equality - itself irrational. But my thinking is that such a subject posted without controversy, is an invitation to a load of men trying to get laid (like Charlos using chromosomal scientism to prove women are superior to men –psh, what are you stupid or what?) would have just turned up without really causing anything interesting to happen and therefore anything to observe in the way of a ‘truth’. The truth is always revealed I am afraid under a strong emotion/s. And controversy is a rhetorical tactic even used in perfectly level-headed academic debate and it works.
As for limits, Denente . . . I don't know any limits and don’t intend to learn any. I have never cared to learn ‘limits’ nor care to.