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Not a deal: the one that got away


Nick Blanc

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Well, hopefully we're all mature enough to appreciate "humor".  I know
this is the age where "everything" is offensive, but maybe we need to 
"Grow Up" and stop being so childish as to be offended by "everything". 
If you think that girls don't sit around and talk the same, or usually worse,
about us guys, then I really don't know where to go from there...

Just a thought.

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On 9/2/2021 at 4:46 PM, telecode 101 said:

there was once this woman i was madly in love with when i was a young guy. at the time, i was too dumb to see, and spent decades thinking she was the  one that got away.

but then, we had a little old friends  reunion, and I  discovered she is quite crazy and didn't age well. now i am glad she was the one that got away. i dodged a bullet.

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Yerp. I had the exact same experience just before I met The Lovely Lady.

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1 hour ago, cclarry said:

Well, hopefully we're all mature enough to appreciate "humor".  I know
this is the age where "everything" is offensive, but maybe we need to 
"Grow Up" and stop being so childish as to be offended by "everything". 
If you think that girls don't sit around and talk the same, or usually worse,
about us guys, then I really don't know where to go from there...

Just a thought.

Generally I agree with the gist of what you're saying, and I hate the oppressive atmosphere of our contemporary culture with its hypervigilantism about words and real or imagined - or sometimes just IMAGINABLE - connotations.

But I also have to agree with Reid here. This sort of talk typically starts rather innocently but before you know it all the chicks are gone and you wonder why. Because a once mature, undiscriminating and non-sexist hangout gradually, without any actual malice involved, transformed into a "bro" nest. It doesn't take genuine sexism or misogyny, only a series of slight prods into a direction where similar speech mannerisms become normalized. I know it's a joke, but a random bypasser and potential future participant has no reason to presume so, because real sexism and misogyny exist and quacks just like that other duck.

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