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Nick Kew wrote:
: But they same kind of comments are made *in all seriousness* about men;
: things like the BBC's "womens hour" takes our inferiority for granted.

I always wonder when I hear this sort of stuff. In a previous life [1] I
always used to listen to women's hour before getting out of bed. I never
found it to "take men's inferiority for granted". Sometimes it had
provactive guests on, but that's not the same at all.

With no offence to you Nick, but the people that I have met in person who
witter on about "men being demeaned" (etc) tend to have somewhat old-fashioned
attitudes and/or don't see where men are advantaged. You of course may be
different - that's just the people I've met.

Arthur

[1] Working as a research fellow in maths. Nice job. Now I have to get up
in the mornings. Sigh.


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omcom (dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers) wrote in message ...

there is often much mirth & merriment on this NG about various sexes

Various sexes?????

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Peter Clinch wrote in message ...

But back to animal portage, I note that the upcoming issue of VeloVision
(due in a couple of days) has a cover picture and feature article on
transporting dogs by bike. I imagine some of it may be applicable to
cats to a degree.

Pretty hard to get a cat to tow the bike along though.

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"Arthur Clune" wrote in message ...

The one that *really* confused him was when I moved to the house next
door but one....

Kept finding his way back, did he? :-)

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Dave...

Various sexes?????

This is the 21st century - one is open-minded ;-)

Cheers, helen s

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Nick Kew wrote:
But they same kind of comments are made *in all seriousness* about
men; things like the BBC's "womens hour" takes our inferiority for
granted.

I always wonder when I hear this sort of stuff. In a previous life
[1] I always used to listen to women's hour before getting out of
bed. I never found it to "take men's inferiority for granted".
Sometimes it had
provactive guests on, but that's not the same at all.


I agree some of the guests are provocative, but also the tone of the
presenting is also pushing an agenda, which while not quite anti-male is
certainly pushing a larger agenda than just that of equality of opportunity
for women. e.g. Its coverage of a recent high-profile court case* was
distinctly in the tone of "Why are these people oppressing women's rights?"
instead of finding any merit in it.

A

*I won't mention the subject, as it'd only start another flame war. It's
within the last 10 days, and not the Huntley trial.

Nick Kew said:

But they same kind of comments are made *in all seriousness* about men;
things like the BBC's "womens hour" takes our inferiority for granted.

Oh, I don't believe they're as po-faced as people think. They've run spots
on the joys of Hostess trolleys and an analysis of "Yo Momma" insults in a
feminist context for example.

Regards,

-david

On 02 Dec 2003 20:49:30 GMT, omcom
(dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers) wrote:

Are you back at work yet? If so, how are you settling in?


Not yet. Having had all those medicals and consultations a few months
ago and been pronounced OK to return, my company decided they wanted
an nth opinion from their own CMO. This was the reason for my medical
last week. In fact, it was more of a friendy chat and a catching up on
old times than a normal medical. (I used to work quite closely with
the doc.)

OT, so I'll shut up now.

James

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