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Old 09-20-09 | 07:35 PM
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danarnold
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Originally Posted by trigger
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...And, its kinda interesting that most of the female voices that contributed to the start of this thread are now very, very quiet. It's hard to want to keep participating when you have a bunch of men (even if they mean well) expressing such latent hostility toward women and engaging in paternalistic discussion of what behaviour we should / should not engage in.

As I've said before, reframe much of the discussion over the last couple of pages in a racial context and I suspect everyone would be able to see it's inappropriateness....
Well said. I think that if men would try to see things from the points of view of their wives and daughters, we wouldn't be afflicted with as much of this BS as we are.

I use any opportunity to brag about my own daughters, one a financial analyst, the other a Harvard educated lawyer. They continue to teach me much and always with humor. Somehow they have survived the failings of their parents and a sexist society.
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