Oh, dear, Jules, I think I need to say something about your perception that I am projecting myself as "poor little Christine, the pompom girl of Silicon Investor." I note that you address this to me and Penni as well, and since Penni is my friend and probably won't mind me sort of answering a little for her, here goes.
Penni and I are both blonde, but the bimbo references are a joke, for sure. This specific reference was in a post where our friends, Maurice Winn and Freddy Quinnelly, who Penni and I consider brilliant but also sensitive and feeling as well, were going over to Ask John Galt to take on the forces of narrow-minded arrogance and were going to discuss free will and determism. I was just making it clear that we were being supportive of them.
Penni and I are both very feminine in our energy, and not really insecure at all about our intellectuality either. If we were, we couldn't joke about it. When Penni came over here at first, we were writing what I thought were stunning posts about domesticity and all the wonderful ways to cook with gummi bears so that we could spend time researching stocks. We both fancy ourselves good writers, and it's fun for us to do stuff like that.
I deliberately started the Feelings thread as a warm and nurturing place where the less intellectual sides of the personality could be explored. I think there is a need for that here, in a forum where some of the smartest and most analytical minds I have ever encountered discuss abstract ideas most of the time. The men around here seem to like it!
I think I can be very bright and still do that in a feminine way, listening to raucous music barefooted in the kitchen, kneading bread while a diaphanous gauzy skirt brushes against my legs, a cat rubs against me and my child plays happily in the background. Miss Penni would agree, I'm sure. And John Galt was absolutely right when he said it was Tarzan, not Quasimoto, that I needed! Intellectuality without emotions and sexuality is very empty indeed. My guy discussing quantum mechanics excites me!!! And I get turned on when my stocks make money; short-term trading is very erotic.I think sexuality resides in the brain, as well as the senses, but definitely ultimately the senses are fully evoked. This thread hopefully provides counterpoint to the drier sides of the stock market, and a soft and warm place to go when intellectual fatigue sets in.
And I would have to add that my comment about needing to learn more about choosing stocks analytically instead of with my emotions resulted in my getting a long and heartfelt email from one of the brightest and most sensitive men at SI, and it has truly been educational reading. I often put myself out there, even in what may seem like a self-deprecating way, to evoke responses and provoke discussion. I think it is very successful, and I think Miss Penni would agree. We are obviously women, and we do approach life through our femininity, and the result can be very rich and rewarding.
Christine |
