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Finally...
serious crayons:
As well as at the top. Let me know if you have any other questions. You can send a PM if it's easier.
Katherine
Katie77:
--- Quote from: [email protected] on August 08, 2006, 12:35:11 am ---Oh, I just had to take this one ladies, if I may. A feminist, brief and simple, is a female who believes her social, political, and economic rights to be equal to a man's.
There, ladies, I've said it. Now, Katie77, where do you fit in?
Doug
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Well I guess if that is the description of a feminist, then i am a feminist
But why use the word "feminist"....i am a female, my husband is a male, and our marriage and our life is on equal terms.....
On the positive side.....I appreciate that women had to fight for what we take for granted these days, so hopefully, the same will apply to the gay community...One day they might look back at these times and wonder "how could people have ever been so cruel and naive"....lets hope so.....
Penthesilea:
As for the feminist: all people should be feminist, because women's rights are Human Rights.
Equal human rights belong to every single human being on this planet, no matter what sex, race, sexual orientation, bodily shape, financial situation, religion, nationality, or whatever. It's as simple as that.
Discrimination of human beings is always the same: call it sexism, Nazism, racism - it always means to worship one human being about another. And this is simply wrong, wrong, wrong!
It does not matter if a person is gay, Hispanic or rich like the Queen herself, it matters if this person is a upright person or an a**ho...
--- Quote ---, but back in the late '70s, when I liked reading Stephen King novels, my favorite was "The Stand,"
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Katherine, it gets more and more funny, this is another thing we have in common: I'm not a King-fan, but back in the 80s I read my share of King's books, too. And The Stand was by far my favourite. It's the only Kinng book I really loved and read more than one time (though I think today I would not like it *that* much anymore).
--- Quote ---Why did it affect us like this, and not others?.....
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Katie, this is the million dollar question ;D
Here is the thread Katherine mentioned (and started back then):
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2692.0
We didn't find the one and only answer and I think we never will. But this thread is 5 pages full of insightful thoughts about this question. Check it out, if you're interested.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on August 08, 2006, 09:14:43 am ---And The Stand was by far my favourite. It's the only King book I really loved and read more than one time (though I think today I would not like it *that* much anymore).
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Me too, Chrissi! And (more OT) I haven't read a Stephen King novel in probably 20 years. But a few years ago I did read his memoir/writing manual called "On Writing." It was quite interesting -- he tells about how he threw the manuscript for "Carrie" away and his wife pulled it out of the wastebasket, blew the cigarette ashes off of it, and urged him to get it published, how he went from a struggling writer with a teacher's day job to suddenly wealthy when he sold the paperback rights, how he became an alcoholic who could drink a case of beer a day (he doesn't drink now) ... He comes off as smart but not smug, not snooty about his wealth or success, with ordinary interests and tastes but impressive insights about writing, a very likeable guy.
And you may know that for the past few years, King has been publishing stories in the New Yorker, just like Annie Proulx! (I don't like his all that much, though.)
Also, to get slightly more on topic, you may also remember that King wrote a nice defense of BBM after the Oscars in Entertainment Weekly. If anyone's interested:
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/commentary/0,6115,1170378_1%7C%7C1145818_0_,00.html
--- Quote from: Katie77 on August 08, 2006, 06:24:39 am ---But why use the word "feminist"....i am a female, my husband is a male, and our marriage and our life is on equal terms.....
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I guess to distinguish between people who do and don't believe in gender equality -- there are still plenty of the latter out there (though they're not quite as obvious now as they once were).
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: goadra on August 08, 2006, 11:22:28 pm ---That doesn’t sound ridiculous. I remember a book called “Emergence” by David R. Palmer--plot line had some similarities to “The Stand” in that there was biological warfare and only two groups of people survived: one normal group (“the bad guys”), one group with a genetic mutation that made them immune to human disease. Most of the “mutants” were unaware of their genetic quirk until after the war, but nearly all of them were, as the author put it, “almost offensively happy,” productive, well-adjusted, super-intelligent.
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So where do you suppose the evil group is? At the Dave Cullen site?
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Just kidding to anyone from there who's here -- unless you really are planning on starting an apocalyptic showdown. ;D
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