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To: Ilaine who wrote (44046)	7/5/1999 11:10:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 108807

I agree that you are a sexist. I mean, duh! Yep. I am. You are. I frankly don't know anybody on this thread who isn't a sexist to some degree, though you are more so than most. I also believe you to be a misogynist. Which says more about you than about me. But if you think I hate women, you are operating under a very strange definition of hatred. You, no doubt, consider yourself to be a connoisseur of women, "Connoisseur... 1. One who knows, one versed in a subject." OED. Nope. I don't consider myself versed in women. (Which you will probably take as merely another misogynistisc response.) You, no doubt, ... cannot comprehend what I am saying. Oh, I comprehend it very well. I see it from time to time from women who are still insecure about their femininity, are threatened by intersexual banter, have subordinated their ability to laugh to a false dignity, and still view relations with men in terms of the battle of the sexes modality rather than regarding men as persons with whom they can actually be friends. I just find it sad that you haven't progressed past that stage yet. The sad thing is that you think the way you talk to women is amusing and charming. It may seen sad to you. Fortunately, there are others here who find it quite otherwise, whose self esteems are robust enough not to be threatened by a bit of jocularity. I'll make a deal with you. Leave me alone in the future, and I let you have the last word in this exchange. I'm not interested in last words. And I'm not particularly interested in leaving you free to post absurdities here without responding to them, since silence has been said to give consent. Even in law, as we both know, a failure to object to an unacceptable statement can in certain circumstances be taken as agreement to it. So I reserve the right to respond to public posts you offer here. (If you don't want me to respond to them, make them private messages.) Of course, you are free to ignore my posts and just treat them as addressed to other readers.