Miss Janet.
     Nou I likt dat bery muh Janice LOL
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From: janet paterson <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 1:58 AM
Subject: NON-PD: Re-post: a pome


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> jannie magnolia mouths off
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>
> why
> are wymmyn 'sappy'
> iz whut i wanna know
> not that it's a character 'fault'
> hah!
> not that i'm implyin myn 'should' be sappy too
> hah!
>
> we wymmyn
> spill and share and babble
> wallowin in feelins and emotions
> analyzin and figurin and turnin things every whichaway
>
> cuz our ance-sisters were gatherers and young'un carers
> lookin all around for nutz 'n' berries?
>
> in other wurds
> shoppin and nurturin
> and developin langwidge?
>
> while our ance-brothers were huntin
> focused on one thang and one thang only
> competin with the wild life and each other for survival?
>
> in other words
> cain't do but wun thing at a time
> ain't no need to tawlk about irrelevant stuff
>
> didja know
> that wymmyn [in n.a. anywhay]
> speak an average of seven thousand words every day
> and myn only two thousand?
>
> cuz wymmyn been borned and bred to communicate
> and myn been borned and bred to hunt
> [eggceptin leagel beagels whose bin borned and bred arguyin]
> viz the tv clicker phenomenon
> he's a'huntin fer a channel
> and by gum kill it daid
> jes as soon as
> he finds it
>
> nawh,
> why do wymmyn seem ta think
> that myn 'should' be more like wymmyn
> and myn think that wymmyn 'should' be more like myn?
>
> and anuther thang,
> why do we both seem to think
> [as a turrible generalizayshun]
> that the 'others' ain't as good as 'us'?
> myn puttin wymmyn and wymmynish thangs down as sissified
> wymmyn puttin myn and mynish thangs down as luggish?
>
> ono
> more brayne-staynin?
> more 'my way or the highway'?
>
> i think i needs ta go do sum warshin
> of mah brayne er whut's
> left uv it
>
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> j m paterson                                  29 july 1997
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> janet paterson
> 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset
> po box 171, almonte, ontario, canada, K0A 1A0
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