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hi all At 14:22 1999/06/16 -0700, rick wrote: >Janet, I gotta laugh at your statement: > >>men dont like to go to doctors >>they dont like to admit to 'weakness' > >Especially in this "enlightened" age when men would be tarred and feathered >for making an analogous generalization about women. > >You were being tongue-in-cheek maybe? > >Rick the short answer to your question is nope, not at all!!! hah! i thought someone might notice! in this enlightened age tarring and feathering anyone is politically incorrect not to mention very environmentally unfriendly and just think of those poor plucked birds as a qualifier, i might have/could have/should have added: as a generally observed "broad brush" phenomenon [there are more shades of grey than black or white] as a stereotype that is frequently borne out by medical experience [viz doctors' office statistics] as an indicator of cultural and anthropological brain-staining [man the hunter the aggressor the non-communicator woman the nurturer the conciliator the communicator] etc etc... but since i was 'off' at the time i just went straight to the jugular! janet janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada a new voice http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/ [log in to unmask]