What's on your mind today?

[Ali]

Oh my god.  En_Route.  That puppy!!!! SQUEEEEEEEEEEE!  Is he yours?

[DeterminedJuliet]

Oh my god.  En_Route.  That puppy!!!! SQUEEEEEEEEEEE!  Is he yours?

I actually didn't recognize the posts as coming from ER at first, due to the puppyness.
It looks like a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, if I had to guess? Pretty cute!

[Asmodean]

The Asmo demands the return of the blue and grumpy. 

[En_Route]

Oh my god.  En_Route.  That puppy!!!! SQUEEEEEEEEEEE!  Is he yours?

Most certainly not. Chris has kindly consented to undertake a major re- branding exercise on my behalf.

[Tank]

Oh my god.  En_Route.  That puppy!!!! SQUEEEEEEEEEEE!  Is he yours?

Most certainly not. Chris has kindly consented to undertake a major re- branding exercise on my behalf.

ROFL!

[Buddy]

Oh my god.  En_Route.  That puppy!!!! SQUEEEEEEEEEEE!  Is he yours?

Most certainly not. Chris has kindly consented to undertake a major re- branding exercise on my behalf.

I donno, it's kind of hard to take someone seriously wile being stared at by a puppy.

[Tank]

Oh my god.  En_Route.  That puppy!!!! SQUEEEEEEEEEEE!  Is he yours?

Most certainly not. Chris has kindly consented to undertake a major re- branding exercise on my behalf.

I donno, it's kind of hard to take someone seriously wile being stared at by a puppy.

Exactly!!

It worked.

[DeterminedJuliet]

It does kinda make you want to hug him...

[En_Route]

It does kinda make you want to hug him...

Chris, I owe you one....

[Tank]

It does kinda make you want to hug him...

Chris, I owe you one....

£50 in the post please as agreed.

[Velma]

It does kinda make you want to hug him...

Chris, I owe you one....

All that armor is just a put on.  He's really one of the nicest guys - most of the time. 

[Tank]

It does kinda make you want to hug him...

Chris, I owe you one....

All that armor is just a put on.  He's really one of the nicest guys - most of the time. 

But you like my dark side better 

[En_Route]

It does kinda make you want to hug him...

Chris, I owe you one....

£50 in the post please as agreed.

Worth every penny.

[Velma]

It does kinda make you want to hug him...

Chris, I owe you one....

All that armor is just a put on.  He's really one of the nicest guys - most of the time. 

But you like my dark side better 

If I denied it, I would be lying.   

[TheWalkingContradiction]

Yes, it bothers me when people make misogynistic comments, as well.

TWC and DJ:
Do you think it's really crazy and infuritating when you hear so many men bashing women as objects or things when they were born from a womb of a woman?

Dj, as a mother , surely you feel a bit saddened by this. ;__;.. I know i do.. i feel like 'why do you hate women SO much?" when i hear some men saying the things they do. your mother was a woman, and surely you have a sister or female cousin you feel protective of. i dont get it *sighs sadly*  

Of course it is crazy.  But there is an historic precedent for that, with older woman who have given birth to many children considered one kind of woman and young women who represent a male fantasy considered another kind.  I don't have references at my fingertips, but I have read about this split in many different times and places.  

Worse, I once also read about another culture in the past--I apologize for not remembering which--in which a young man's first sexual experience was with a sex worker the same age and body type as his mother.  In that culture, the father who took his son to this woman wanted to make sure the boy did not grow up with the notion that older women like his mother were someone different from young women.  It was a way to teach disrespect of all women, mothers included.

My mother is an Arab born and raised in the Arab world.  Well aware of how women can be treated unfairly, she and my American-born Italian-American father made sure that my sister and I were treated equally and that I never thought I was somehow superior to her because of my sex or because I was older.  We both had to wash dishes; we both had the same curfew.  I could express displeasure with others, but not in sexist terms.  More importantly, both my sister and I became lifelong Star Trek fans on our father's knee.  It was not a "boy's" show that a proper girl should not watch.  All this shaped my view of sexual equality at an early age--just as, unfortunately, many children of both sexes have been shaped into believing in sexual inequality at an early age.