Was an apology required - Purpose of Female Breasts

[realibrad]

You did ignore something. You ignored all the relevant qualifiers.


I wasn't talking about you when I said that, I was talking about CoW. Changing the discussion without acknowledging agreement or impasse on the previous topic is terrible form and probably the source of the majority of the anger generated in this forum.

I assure I did not ignore anything. At worst I did not understand you qualifiers. That said, all I wanted was to understand how you were meaning aggressive as it was not intuitive to me. You are under no obligation to answer me. I'm not sure what the insulting part is, but, if you feel insulted so be it. You can explain how or why if you wish, or you can just ignore me.

 

[dank69]

To me the threat is the Ogre's proximity to me. If he Ogre is aroused by me, but is not near me then he does not appear to be a threat. Now, If I do see him close to me, and he appears excited, I would feel uncomfortable with the possibility he could be a threat. At that point I would ask him to back up, but there are still a lot of variables I would have to fill in for me to know how to answer the question fully.

Also, I'm not trying to help anyone here. Well, other than my self.

If people do not enjoy helping me, then there is no need to help me. It would be silly to expect people to take their time and spend it on helping me if they do not enjoy it.

But what about the fucking onions? I mean who chops onions while naked at the beach? Does that seem logical to you?

 

[realibrad]

But what about the fucking onions? I mean who chops onions while naked at the beach? Does that seem logical to you?

Its not illogical, and it does not seem to matter at all. If its a beach that does not allow nudity and onion cutting, it would seem weird, but not inherently dangerous. Weird does not equal dangerous. Unless you ascribe to the Rights view of that type of thing. Perhaps that comes from my life experience of being around people and ideas that were always very different from me and mine.

Also, in terms of men (or male ogres) hitting on me, I grew accustomed to that. I have spent quite a bit of time hanging in the gay community. In fact, the best halloween I ever had was when me and my GF went to Wilton Manors in south FL. Amazing tranny Cher, and tons of nude dudes around. Gay men love to show their bodies.

 

[interchange]

I'm just being an ass to be honest. I don't know what the answer is to this, other than parents should be involved with their children, and if a girl feels self-conscious about the size of her breasts, or a boy feels self-conscious about the size of his peter, the parents shouldn't blame a book for making their child self-conscious, they just need to take a more active role in their kids life and reinforce good feelings of self-worth. Consumerism has taught people to be on auto-pilot. Subscribing to your household goods, auto-bill pay, and in a sense, parenting.

Asking your kids what you learned at school today, what are you reading, and being involved solves probably 99% of these problems.

Yeah I'm taking a psychoanalytic class on gender & sexuality right now, and my reply was halfway aggressive toward that. It would be better to be more complete, but at some point you run into including text about sexual attraction to clouds just to not offend anyone. I agree that the most practical intervention for this and just about every other problem out there involving interactions between people is in fostering good interpersonal skills, e.g. empathy, flexibility, etc. At some point, you just can't be an expert on everyone's gender/sexuality/religion/culture/etc. and need to know how to be healthily curious, humble, open-minded, and respectful.

 

[Moonbeam]

To me the threat is the Ogre's proximity to me. If he Ogre is aroused by me, but is not near me then he does not appear to be a threat. Now, If I do see him close to me, and he appears excited, I would feel uncomfortable with the possibility he could be a threat. At that point I would ask him to back up, but there are still a lot of variables I would have to fill in for me to know how to answer the question fully.

Also, I'm not trying to help anyone here. Well, other than my self.

If people do not enjoy helping me, then there is no need to help me. It would be silly to expect people to take their time and spend it on helping me if they do not enjoy it.

You don't help people for enjoyment though, hopefully that is part of the result. You do it from empathy. Empathy quite often is a visceral experience of vicarious pain. That can hurt and it can stop hurting if the other person stops hurting first. It may also depend on your capacity to have noticed your own pain to be able to see it in others and even if they themselves have not that awareness. People are often miserable and don't even know it.

 

[Moonbeam]

Yeah I'm taking a psychoanalytic class on gender & sexuality right now, and my reply was halfway aggressive toward that. It would be better to be more complete, but at some point you run into including text about sexual attraction to clouds just to not offend anyone. I agree that the most practical intervention for this and just about every other problem out there involving interactions between people is in fostering good interpersonal skills, e.g. empathy, flexibility, etc. At some point, you just can't be an expert on everyone's gender/sexuality/religion/culture/etc. and need to know how to be healthily curious, humble, open-minded, and respectful.

/forum

 

[realibrad]

You don't help people for enjoyment though, hopefully that is part of the result. You do it from empathy. Empathy quite often is a visceral experience of vicarious pain. That can hurt and it can stop hurting if the other person stops hurting first. It may also depend on your capacity to have noticed your own pain to be able to see it in others and even if they themselves have not that awareness. People are often miserable and don't even know it.

Perhaps I could have been more clear. I meant here as in this specific instance. Perhaps you did not understand my use of here

I enjoy helping people. It's why I plan on adopting. As I have gotten older I find more and more enjoyment in helping others. This most recent Xmas was actually me and the GF doing things for the kids and family. It was damn expensive but a blast.

 

[realibrad]

Yeah I'm taking a psychoanalytic class on gender & sexuality right now, and my reply was halfway aggressive toward that. It would be better to be more complete, but at some point you run into including text about sexual attraction to clouds just to not offend anyone. I agree that the most practical intervention for this and just about every other problem out there involving interactions between people is in fostering good interpersonal skills, e.g. empathy, flexibility, etc. At some point, you just can't be an expert on everyone's gender/sexuality/religion/culture/etc. and need to know how to be healthily curious, humble, open-minded, and respectful.

The cost of the next unit of information gets more expensive. Econ, yay.

 

[child of wonder]

"Yes, hello, I would like to order a pizza. I have been offended by six things on the Internet today."

(said no-one ever, and no-one will)

 

[mikeymikec]

Following a statement that made very little sense with an image that conveys very little I suppose has the merit of being consistent.

 

[fskimospy]

I had not read this thread until now but it does make realibrad’s insane arguments in the socialism thread make a lot more sense.