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

To: E who wrote (39168)	6/5/1999 11:49:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 108807

Just woke up. Found stuff on Feelies that frankly floored me. Cobalt even reposted the list - dunno who was supposed to look worse - her or me. I'd erased it the moment I discovered her displeasure with the explanation "mispost - sorry". Now it's submitted as evidence of my alleged perfidy. I have a friend who has a search engine that he uses to call up excerpts from literature on key words. This week's one was on lawyers. I read them and though to myself "hey - bet I know someone who'll get a chuckle out of these." I NEVER would have imagined I'd enrage her instead. Okay. So the quotes assembled aren't particularly charitable toward lawyers. I also don't think they are on a level with the typical Lawyer Joke, you know the sort. But this does not mean that I'm a bigot, or that I endorse the verity of the underlying premises. And it's not a California thing either. Where I grew up back East we told all manner of ethnic jokes. We were Poles, Jews, blacks, a lot of Germans. We told each other the coarsest ethnic jokes. I'm blonde. I “put up” with blonde jokes every day. Put up heck - I seek them out - some of them are damn good and even the crudest ones are good for a grimace. We told each other the meanest jokes, and we laughed. Because it was understood that there wasn't a grain of TRUTH in these jokes. The extreme overcharacterization was funny. (Meanwhile we shared each other's Good Humor popsicles.) But the underlying context that didn't need explained to anybody was that the seed of real prejudice around which these jokes had grown was rejected. It's ... a little disorienting to me that I need to give account about this now in front of woldly intelligent adults. If anyone truly believes that I was using the set of quotes to take a shot at Cobalt Blue by denigrating her profession, I say two things. 1) I'm sorry - not my desire at all. I accept responsibility for being thoughtless. 2) This is one step beyond "sensitive". It's a selective rejection of other supportive things I said. Check your compass cuz you're off course.