To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (4171 ) 9/21/1998 1:18:00 PM From: mrknowitall Read Replies (2) | Respond to
Ann - <<first part OT>> my user name comes from the fact that Bullwinkle was already taken, and if you're not old enough to remember the cartoon show, Rocky and Bullwinkle, my venerable namesake had a short bit on the show in which he was introduced as "Mister Knowitall." . . .is a reflection on the male culture in the entire nation. " I think it is a reflection of a small sub-culture - one which says, "I can get away with anything because I am (larger, stronger, younger, wealthy, more powerful - pick as many as you like). Where the ego becomes formed around those properties is well beyond my education, but experience tells me that it stems from not having appropriate role models with authority to guide a young man into being a gentleman. It makes itself apparent in things like the wealthy twits who park their $100K cars in the no-parking zone to the knuckle-draggers who can't keep their eyes off of a woman's body in a business meeting.
