Men & Women complement each other by the unique traits we were each given:
WOMAN:
Women have strengths that amaze men.
They carry children, they carry hardships, they carry burdens, but they
hold happiness, love, and joy.
They smile when they want to scream.
They sing when they want to cry.
They cry when they are happy and laugh when they are nervous.
Women wait by the phone for a "safe at home call" from a friend after a
snowy drive home.
They are childcare workers, executives, attorneys, stay-at-home moms,
bikers, babes, &your neighbors.
They wear suits, jeans, and they wear uniforms.
They fight for what they believe in and they stand up against injustice.
They walk and talk the extra mile to get their children in the right
schools and to get their family the right health care.
They go to the doctor with a frightened friend.
Women are honest, loyal and forgiving.
They are smart, knowing that knowledge is power. But they still know how to
use their softer side to make a point.
Women want to be the best for their family &their friends and themselves.
Their hearts break when a friend dies.
They have sorrow at the loss of a family member, yet they are strong when
they think there is no strength left.
They drive, fly, walk, run or e-mail you to show how much they care about
you.
The heart of a woman is what makes the world spin!
Women do more than just give birth.
They bring joy and hope.
They give compassion and ideals.
They give moral support to their family and friends and all they want back
is a hug, a smile, and for you to do the same to people you come in contact
with.
MEN:
Men are good at lifting heavy shit and killing bugs.
I did not write the above, but I posted it to point out diferences between men and women. Somehow I think a woman wrote it.
Before I went diving I posted sumpin'that Sandy P. put in my comments. The basic premise was that men and women are not equal. This attracted a troll named Denise who put forth lots of bullshit and specious arguments by putting words in Sandy P's mouth or twisting them around. Then she said, which contradicted her own arguments Men and women are very different, but still equal.
Huh? If they are different, how can they be equal?
Anyway, I get back from the trip in mid-debate and I posted the following:
Denise - I have this to say about all the equality bullshit: "some people are more equal than others". We will never have equality because it is impossible. I'm a cripple, so physically I'm not equal to you.
She replied:
If this is true, then why does United States law not recognize this so-called "fact." Why don't law makers accept that not everyone is equal and make laws accordingly? US law regards every citizen as equal. Do have a problem with the way your government defines equality, Denny?
By golly, they do and I do. There is the Civil Rights Act. There is the Americans with Disabilities Act. The gummint has been passing all sorts of laws trying to establish equality or remedying real (or perceived) inequalities for the entire existence of this nation. In some cases they have gone overboard. She also pointed out that the United States Constitution guarantees U.S. citizens equal protection under the law. Does that make us equal? To paraphrase Clinton, it all depends on what your meaning of "equal" is. "Some people are more equal than others". Ted Kennedy can be drunk, run a car with a woman passenger off a bridge, save his own hide, leave the passenger to drown, leave the scene of the accident and get away with it. Had I done the same, I would have gone to jail.
I was much too indulgent of Denise, because what started the whole thing was Sandy P's premise that men and women were not equal and anyone intellectually honest would agree with that.
We then went off on another tangent about the "American Empire". One troll started it and Denise picked up on it. I suggested that she read Bill Whittle on why we were not an empire, because I was too lazy to post the links where I had discussed this both here and here.
Since she didn't want to read Bill Whittle and admit she was wrong she responded but 'Bill Whittle' says "jump" and you say "how high, billy?" You run a blog and you admit you can't even formulate a good argument for yourself.
No offence to Bill, but I do not jump when he tells me to. I even think his essays, though well written, are too long and challenge the intelligence of someone like Denise.
Uh oh! Name calling. That's right, because she called me a moron. Now it wasn't that she called me a moron that pissed me off, but that she violated one of The Rules namely, Number 4. which states:
If you do insult me or others, try to make it an amusing insult. "Ha. Ha. Ha. You sure are stupid" is lame. "You have alzheimers" is lame. "If your brains were TNT, you wouldn't have enough to blow your nose" is good. Come up with sumpin' like that and you can stay a little longer. I want to be amused. If I'm not amused you're gone. Why can I do that? See rule number 1.
Moron does not qualify. Here are two for you Denise:
1. You are so ugly that even Bill Clinton wouldn't ask you for a blowjob.
2. I've stumbled over better looking skanks than you looking for a place to masturbate.
Now let's look at this empire stuff again. Denise was nice enough to provide the dictionary's definition.
1. a. A political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority.b. The territory included in such a unit.
2. Supreme power; sovereignty; sway; dominion.
By that very definition the United States is not an empire unless we count the 50 states as "territories". One of our actual territories is Puerto Rico. We have offered it independence many times. Guam, another territory, can become independent if it wants. Like Puerto Rico it prefers to remain a territory because we spend more money on it that we receive from it. Puerto Rico and Guam do not make us an empire. I cannot think of any country (not territory) in the world over which we have supreme power with the exception of Afghanistan and Iraq and our stated goal is to turn them into self governing independent countries as we did with Germany and Japan.
She might have a case with the sway part, but wouldn't you think we could have gotten our neighbors, Canada and Mexico to vote with us on the UN resolution to take action against Iraq? And just recently the Philippines asked us to vacate the Subic Bay Naval Base and we did. We're looking to leave Saudi Arabia. I'll bet if South Korea asked us to leave, we would, but I doubt if they will do that since we're protecting them from North Korea.
Another argument was her statement that we had the military deployed in 140 nations worldwide and obviously that projection of military power was proof that we were an empire. Wow! 140 nations? I just checked the United Nations web site and there there are only 191 member nations. The fact that we had a military presence in 140 of them really sounded farfetched.
I have to give her credit. She did provide some links and they were U.S. Gummint links so I guess I have to accept them. But then I realized why we do, in fact, have the military stationed in 140 nations. At almost every United States Embassy we have United States Marine guards. That explains it. An American embassy, some Marines. Hardly proof of an empire.
Lots of words to say men are not equal to women and there is no American empire. And what I say goes because This Is My Blog and if you don't like it click here.
