--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchy...@...> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Judy Stein" <jst...@...> wrote: > > > > Anyway, as I read Raunchy's post, I realized how angry > > I still was. I've managed to repress that anger now > > that Obama's in the White House so I can evaluate > > what he's doing more objectively, but it doesn't take > > much to bring it up again. > > Judy, Thank you for putting into words exactly how I feel > about the primary. It brought me to tears to know that you > understand completely how painful it was to have witnessed > such shameful, sexist, unrelenting, abuse of the first > American woman ever to make such a powerful and historic > bid for the presidency.
And these are the women who claim not to be "running on emotion." It's A YEAR LATER. And neither of them sees anything the *least* bit odd about still breaking into tears or into uncontrollable bouts of anger about something that happened to SOMEONE THEY NEVER MET. But it's not the weepiness or the anger that astounding me...it's the HOLDING ON TO IT. I honestly don't understand how anyone who has been meditating for 30+ years can do that. It just doesn't compute. Did these women never heard Maharishi's "line through water" analogy? Have they never *experienced* it? I suspect that almost everyone else here has. We GET OVER THINGS. Why don't you? As for "What was done to Hillary," welcome to politics. Stop being such a wuss. She isn't. IMO *most* of what was said about Hillary Clinton wasn't aimed at her at all. She's a strong old bat; it wouldn't have affected her. And unlike you two, she doesn't appear to hold grudges; she's beyond it. The sexist taunts at Hillary were designed to make her *followers* crazy. And they worked like a charm. Nothing loses a female politician more votes than a bunch of women running around screaming hysterically, "They're playing dirty with my candidate," in a national election. Are you DERANGED? Playing dirty is a *synonym* for "national election." GET OVER IT, Raunchy. I really like you when you relax and your funny side comes out. But when you get into "grudge mode" you start *personifying* all the things you resent men saying about women. You know...things like, "They're ruled by their emotions," or "They hold grudges for years, and cannot seem to ever let go of them." And your response to someone saying this is to DO WHAT THEY SAY YOU DO, and keep doing it? Think this one through... It's the same thing here at FFL. Judy postures as a rational person, and yet LIVES for her grudges and acting out on them. John Knapp shows up here and posts and she loses it and starts trashing him as if their history were NOT history, and was yesterday. Same with Andrew Skolnick. Mention his name here, or the website (http://www.aaskolnick.com/junkyarddog/) he created for Judy, and she goes ballistic, *while* claiming that she sees the site as some kind of "badge of honor." And she last interacted with Andrew NINE YEARS AGO. And this is to say nothing of her obsession with Vaj and myself. And you, Raunch? You're going along fine, being funny and writing your poetry, and someone men- tions Hillary Clinton and you drop back into "rant mode" and start acting out ALL of the negative stereotypes any man ever had about any woman. Here's a hint: If you really do care about ending the negative things that men say about women, as Willytex says, "DON'T FEED IT." How can you expect men to "take you seriously" when you don't act in a way that CAN be taken seriously? How can you expect us to understand your anger at portrayals of women as overly emotional and tending to hold onto grudges for years when you act overly emotional and hang onto grudges for years? It's like a child saying, "I am NOT 'throwing a tantrum.' And I'm going to sit here and pout and hold my breath until my face turns purple and until you stop saying that about me." Get the point? What I don't think you understand is that a number of us here LIKE you when you drop all this emotional and samskaric attachment to things in the past and just live in the present. The woman who does that and is able to be funny is a delight. It's the one who keeps throwing tantrums and claiming she isn't doing it we laugh at, rather than with.
