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

To: epicure who wrote (63746)	11/20/1999 9:48:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Thank you for your insight, which I always find valuable. I have been batting around an idea, myself, which I will try to express for the first time. I started posting on Feelies as an offshoot to DAR, and I posted recently how I got onto DAR, basically Penni posted something funny to me and I bookmarked her, and read her posts, and started from that. I am, as you point out, a newbie here. From time to time newer people wander by here, and it usually is the case that Feelies made the hot list, and these people seem to have wandered over because of that. And as some have pointed out, even though Feelies seems (to me, at least) to be a place where people argue, more than anything else, it claims to be a place where one can talk about one's feelings without fear of being flamed. So what I wonder is, do these guys come over here because they really long, in their heart of hearts, to talk about their feelings, only they don't know how? That might explain a lot, that what's going on here is that a lot of conflicted middle-American type males are secretly longing to get in touch with their feelings, but unable to do so. The only way they know how to express themselves emotionally is to agree with people they know are safe, and criticize all others. Which can't be satisfying, which can't be what they want, because it's what they've always done. But it's safe, and safety is good.

To: epicure who wrote (63746)	11/20/1999 10:34:00 PM
From: Null Dog Ago	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

X, I felt that my family had been insulted. If it was joking, fine. It would be wise for any party posting a joke to denote it as a joke, which was not the case. I will not resort to name calling, and I believe I called pro-choice demented, not CB directly. If I am wrong, too bad. I don't care what ludicrous arguments in favor of abortion are issued, and there is no pill or any other means of birth control used in my marriage, not that it's any of your business. I don't believe that I have "no business" as a man to argue against abortion, and frankly I find those who think I have no right to argue it pompous and egocentric. Didn't the slave owners tell the emancipators that the ownership of slaves was none of their business? Sure, a woman's body is involved, but so is another's. Ever hear the saying "two wrongs don't make a right"? I suppose that's just childish prattle a mother spews to brainwash the kids... Whatever the case, be careful where you tread when on such a touchy topic. Things can easily be taken the wrong way. And my wife just said ditto!