but you DID send it to me, Lorraine, so own it. regarding your, see i told you so: the thread is falling apart, that simply is not true either, but rather a female response to a social behavior under intense spotlight and review.
backbiting in private is wrong. as wrong as it can be. backbiting by a thread creator is also wrong. there are no special dispensations which exhonerate backstabbers who know how to start an si "thread." there are no excuses for playing people off against each other in hopes to gain, what? some queen bee strokes for more eggs as opposed to making lots and lots of honey for y2k survival personal consumption or for sharing?
you see, lorraine, men and women differ in how we view behavior by some women. we see viscious verbal attacks from a woman, either public or private as black widow spider behavior: intentional infliction of pain, with the ultimate goal of removal of anyone, male OR female in the path of the bitter, divorced 'spider'.
no matter how elaborate the web, in this case the si thread, the end result is still intentionally fatal.
we men observe this behavior pattern over and over in some women. heck, even movies are created in 30' technicolor on this theme.
we men don't see it this thread as falling apart or unraveling. we just see it as the way some women are, and some of us chose to stand up to such women, to expose their visciousnesses in order to perpetuate a life cycle. this thread isn't going to die. no one has skillset.
we men are stronger. we build with steel, concrete and logical thinking, not gossamer shimmering threads of ensnareing or entrapment by bitter women and their particular brand of webspinning.
some bitter women are more clever than others in how they spin their webs. have you ever observed a geometric progression of webspinning from your wheelchair, out a favorite window perhaps?
first the spider finds a breezey place, a place where there is enough air movement to blow in tasty morsel targets. in this case, the windy spot is silicon investor's drafty canyons.
then the spider anchors itself to a high place, a y2k vantage point if you please and plunges headlong spinning a single filament from its ass until it lands on another object and afixes it to the southern landing spot. from there it meticulously and geometrically fans out, creating an intricate pattern of behavior, all designed to trap as many morsels as possible.
the whole process largely goes unnoticed until a rain appears, and several people appearing on this thread have rained on a specific spider's beautiful web. cheeky comes to mind. that rain results in affixing glittering dewdrops to the largely invisible threads suddenly revealing its deadly beauty to all observers.
irregardless, because the black widow is still hungry for attention, she clambers to the center of the shimmering web, grasping firmly each of her 8 legs to the 8 anchoring webthreads, motionlessly waiting for long periods of silence to see which anchor thread twitches announcing the arrival of a victim of her cleverness.
receiving a telltale alarm vibration, she leaves the central command post and nimbly clambors all over her filament creation, pouncing to paralyze for devouring later, or to promptly sting to death her victims, after first embroiling them in a silken cocoon.
she piroettes before the transfixed imprisioned victim, parading her wealth and cunning, and possibly even her personal beauty, and then attacks, openly until the hapless meal is dead.
weaving, wrapping, stinging, and then public display of visciousness. it is so predictable in the female predators in life.
sometimes the bitter spider gets more than she bargains for in her web, and then she gets eaten alive by a smarter, larger, more skilled hunter, say a wasp or a bird. sometimes a man with a leaf-blower appears and a keen eye for viscious spiders, squashes her and blows away her treachery.
even skillful spiders don't always live long enough to attract everyone into their 'web.'
si in particular is a remarkable place for all kinds of opinions to be voiced and all kinds of warnings of deadly y2k dangers directly ahead to be printed for all to see. on si, bitter divorced spiders do not get what they want desparately.
you stated you had chosen not to marry in a post to ken much earlier last week. i believe you have chosen well, considering what one of your alternatives as a woman could have been, i.e., a bitter divorcee with a tough as nails, ribald killing style.
now, please let me know on a much less cerebral note: did you get your fire escape plans reviewed and discussed with your loved ones and caregivers after that sobering post by ken earlier monday?? |
