Brett

Don’t you think that something has to exist and to exist must have had some meaning to exist before it was mimicked or learned? How could you mimic so...

I just reread this and realised that you are agreeing with something I didn’t say. When you say “learned through mimicking and group association” it s...

That may not be true. I guess we need to know what is meant by power.

I suppose what I’m driving at is that this applies to both male and female. I feel that the idea of objectifying is a bit too simplistic. The idea of ...

I’m thinking that the males stares at males and females. The staring is used in many different ways, but what lies behind it is not always clear. I’ve...

When would roles and signals not be natural? Unless culture has warped them so much that their origins are no longer clear, or that culture has create...

This does suggest that women might be the unintended victims of role playing, that it’s not about them personally, or even as females.

If you’ve ever been up close to two men just before they fight, the staring is incredibly fierce and concentrated.

I might just walk back a bit on the primitive way of possessing. It’s possible that being stared at challenges my subjective confidence in what and wh...

An interesting point about staring or the gaze is having your photo taken. Most people feel some anxiety. Some manage a practised pose but others go t...

It’s possible that starring is primitive way of possessing.

I have to say that there have been moments when crossing a busy street at a crossing and there are three lanes of traffic waiting, halfway across the ...

It probably does develop during puberty. And puberty is a confusing period. Many men still stare without, I suspect, any understanding of why they do ...

Do you think it’s true, as I have read over the last decade, that there are more women than ever, which doesn’t mean it’s a lot, of different racial g...

Doesn’t this beg the question, what is poetry for? Someone said that poetry today is only read by other poets. I don’t know if that’s true or not. But...

For those who are “wiser” why not just try a more considerate approach. It’s easy enough to take into account the number of posts people have made. An...

This is a vicious place, you’re the only one here to have shown that you use your mind.

Well I was responding to this, but no matter.

What are those things? The poem seems to be referring to an experience of youth and if not youth then inexperience. I guess in referring to your age y...

I just happened to see this. That aspect of getting to know someone on that level, which is generally regarded as some sort of fear of girls, seems to...

I’m writing this as I think, so bear with me. I can see where I’ve gone away from even my own train of thought in previous posts. There are no races, ...

That’s why it goes around in circles.

This seems reasonable; “ Human races are distinguished by anthropologists on the basis of anthropometric traits. Geneticists delineate the races on th...

It’s not a rule. It’s for amusement. Perspiration refers to hard work.

90% perspiration, 10% inspiration.

“Tricky” was in relation to “genuine”. That’s my feeling. I don’t mean that a metaphor is formed later as a conscious act because the writer felt a me...

Of course I don’t believe that an AI could go on to create a metaphor.

Of course. We crossed over there. My comment was in regard to “...some thoughts”. “Genuine”. This is getting tricky now. Isn’t it possible a metaphor ...

There’s no correct way to produce art.

I just realised it might appear that I’m arguing that an AI can write poetry, which I’m not. It’s more like William Burrough’s “cut ups”.

I’d agree to some degree. But there seems to be contemporary ideas in the lines. Of course these are the lines given to us by so she may have lifted t...

I think a question is the first step into the unknown. The unknown creates various levels of fear: a dark room to a child to having doubts about belie...

That they work in a tradition with a long unbroken tail. They steal from the past and reposition it in relation to cultural contexts. They “Make it ne...

I think this is really interesting. When you say you found this in your first foray does it mean you sifted through a bit to find it? I don’t agree wi...

Exactly. And how can we move forward when every generation has to stop and argue and redefine every group of people. Which has happened so badly that ...

In no way am I suggesting this is a simple topic. But I personally would like to look at the issue through genuine ideas of difference. Edit: and what...

I feel like there’s almost a determined effort by some to insist that there’s no difference between blacks and whites because it might unleash somethi...

From memory blacks have greater or bigger bone structure than whites, which means they can carry more muscle. This is also the reason they don’t make ...

[reply="StreetlightX;422974" But the last line of my post is about questioning the status quo. If that is unclear then hopefully this corrects that.

I occurs to me that the “Autonomous zone” in a Seattle, which appears to have morphed from Blacklifesmatter into something else, is really what the co...

It’s the intolerance that’s the tricky part.

A bit of “Oooltra violence”.

All in all I think the mods do a pretty good job in managing this forum.

I didn’t call you sleazy, I referred to your post as sleazy because it was elusive and deceptive in its meaning. Maybe not on purpose, though it seeme...

I agree with what you say, it’s been my position that it’s the quality of police officer that counts and the management of the force. I’ve seen many e...

You know you really are a couple of thugs.

I’m not criticising you, I’m just clarifying what Judaka said. I might be wrong of course.

But if I refuse to use the word black isn’t that suggesting that there’s something distasteful about the colour? Edit: remember, it’s “Blacklivesmatte...

He’s trying to tell you that by making race an issue you make the idea of race important. When it would be better, as everyone keeps saying, that ther...

Just so it’s clear, I have no criticisms of Koepernick.