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Janet P.. OHMAGOD!!!! Your spell-checker must've up and DIED on ya when ya ran THAT message thru it!! <dying laughing at mental image of croaking spell-checker giving up the ghost> Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] ---------- From: Parkinson's Information Exchange on behalf of janet paterson Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 1997 1:28 AM To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN Subject: women and men my dear cyber-siblings at the risk of 'blowing my cover' and with apologies in advance to our non-'english' speaking members [translations available upon request] i herewith present my tuppence on one of the current topics i have inflicted this on some of you privately and i can bearly believe i'm now doin what i'm doin my excuse is "george inspired me" [both of you - you know who you are] your syber-sys in syllynyss and loony lyngo janet ----------------------------------------------------------- jannie mangolia mouths off ----------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- j m paterson 29 july 1997 ----------------------------------------------------------