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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (55950)	9/24/1999 10:44:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

We can be fresh together. It is ironic, and interesting. I was hoping for something interesting, maybe this is it. Do you suppose if we were guys uncomfortable with what went on anyone would have said we picked on people because they were guys and conservative? I think it was Michael who came up with that formidably insightful observation. I (speaking only for myself) like some conservatives - although I identify with neither liberals or conservatives. I EVEN like some men. I EVEN like some of the men here. Of course men might have been given some crap about being men, and not being sensitive enough (though I honestly can't remember anything like that ever going on here) but do you suppose as women we are just expected to be sensitive? Do you think people are EXTRA surprised if we choose not to participate in some emotional "event" because it feels wrong to us. And it was the other Michael who came up with the brilliant observation that I didn't feel "right" about the whole thing 'cause I didn't have kids. So I guess IF you are a woman and IF you have kids you are NOT allowed to be uncomfortable with emotional exchanges involving kids (and especially men and kids) and express it, when as a woman with kids you SHOULD be understanding and sympathetic no matter what (or keep quiet). I guess we know OUR place now. We are nasty and poisonous if we don't just go with the emotional flow. We are, apparently, emotional tampons.