T_Clark

I love aphorisms. Any interesting, useful, or valuable philosophical principle can be expressed in one or two sentences. Example: Any interesting, use...

I'm guessing it was unspeakable.

Honestly, I'm feeling pretty bold in this discussion. Boldly going where I haven't gone before. Boldly expressing my lack of boldness.

Don't get it, which is ok with me. We can leave it here if you'd like.

I've been finding the discussion disturbing. I find myself wanting to turn away from it. I guess that means I find it stressful.

You're not paying attention. I claim not to have a story about who I am. You, and others, have expressed skepticism.

Don't understand. Is it my response that's non-masculine and non-assertive? Am I the one that's supposed to be nervous and anxious?

Yeah, well, no. Not with me. I pay attention. It's more personal. It's not social control, it's hiding from my shame. As I've said, I like men and mas...

I'm curious to see what @"fdrake" has to say. I have a feeling there's more to it than that. From previous discussions, I think @"TimeLine" sees it di...

I'm not claiming anything. I'm just saying I have confidence that, if I express what's in my heart, others will understand me. Doesn't always work out...

Is that really how you experience yourself?

I don't understand your objection and I don't understand why this seems to be such a big deal.

????????????? said the same thing. I think maybe it's the difference between married men and unmarried ones. It is a fact, or at least a stereotype, t...

How is this any different than any other attempt at communication between people? Of course there is the possibility that the other won't understand. ...

I am sometimes, too often, dishonest, but I'm almost never intellectually dishonest. Maybe we have a misunderstanding. Thinking back, my memory is tha...

I think you and I have really different ways of looking at this. This discussion, and the metanarrative one, have been eye opening to me.

Absolutely - I've heard women talked about in a similar fashion and I don't like it, but this is more personal. It's me they're talking about. Worse, ...

Boy. This is hard to read. I'm trying to think of myself in similar situations. The only times I can remember having a reaction similar to what you're...

I like the story about your son and I like the way you look at love, although it's not the way I think of it. As for unlovingness being 100% taught, t...

I know how to handle women. Just pretend they're human and everything will work out ok. :meh:

I have no problem with how you've characterized this, but it wasn't really my point. I was talking much more personally, how it makes me feel when men...

I've always liked "50 Shades of Cthulhu." Ol' Lovecraft was way ahead of his time.

I tried the BMI calculator. It said I was fat. I told it I wanted a second opinion. It told me I was ugly too.

I spent five months in Tuscaloosa a few years ago and became aware of Meat and Three. Mr. Bills - "Pass the cornbread. More pudding please." 4 stars o...

Humor, ridicule, can be a very powerful, aggressive, valid tool. Weapon. I think of political humor. I always think of Steven Colbert's speech at the ...

One way of looking at it is that our strengths are our weaknesses. Humor can be a very useful and valid way of dealing with your life. We use the tool...

With some trepidation, I propose an in-class exercise. Here's a joke. I think it's very funny. I laugh every time I tell it. Every man I've ever told ...

As I said previously, this is the first time I'm trying to articulate these issues, so I haven't got myself together. I think this paragraph summarize...

Sorry, I just flagged your post by mistake. I really like what you've written. Flexible, searching, playful, serious, dedicated, honorable. Hey, wait....

Are we talking about "play" with two different meanings? Three if we include Frost: Playing - good Play for mortal stakes - all there is. Authenticity...

Thanks for the opportunity to quote on of my favorite poems. As always, Robert Frost. "Two Tramps in Mud Time." But yield who will to their separation...

Tried to sleep. Couldn't. As I intimated, I recognize my life has been pretty protected and my experience limited. I've been wanting to test my unders...

That's certainly not how it feels to me. We can talk about it more later. I have to go to bed now.

Yeah...well.....no. Not ready for that. For goodness sake, I told you about Full House. What more do you want from me. :meh:

I went back and checked to remind myself how we got to where we are. We started out talking about games people play. Immediately, almost everything be...

My background - Middle class family. Money was never an issue. Two brothers, one 2 years older, one 7 years younger. My mother was stay at home. She d...

This is really the first time I've sat down and tried to articulate my own feelings on the matter, so I'm not sure how to express it. That's one of th...

Well, I have a friend who sings to magpies, at least you're not that bad. It's true. It is not unusual for me to be misunderstood. I am aggressive and...

Oh, right. Left out "wacky men." To me, because of the differences in roles between men and women, it is acceptable to treat men with less respect tha...

I am really interested in talking about how men and women interact in our societies and the world. It's something I've thought about a lot, but not so...

That means a lot to me. I can't separate the humor from the seriousness. My serious philosophy is playful just as much as my joking. My joking is just...

I've been thinking about this more. It is true, I was ridiculing your point, I thought in a gentle and friendly way. Teasing is a rhetorical device I ...

If a caricature is not true to what it is describing, it loses its point and its power. If your point is that, in this particular case, it wasn't an e...

The baby boomer thing was serious, but automatic. There is no baby boom. It's just a phrase people use to make themselves feel significant. To make th...

Yeah, well. I'm not a baby boomer just because I was born in 1951. I don't care what they say. You're thinking of @"Bitter Crank". Saying "patriarchy"...

Well, maybe I was. I was caricaturing your position as a way to lead into my point. Is that what you meant? Is that a bad thing.

When I was a freshman in college in the 70s, "The Primal Scream" had just came out and I was a psych major. Seemed like a good idea. I went around scr...

Wrong. I was being playful. I look in my heart and see I wasn't trying to put you in your place. I was trying to start out the discussion in a friendl...

Strongly disagree. It's a sign of disrespect and sloppy philosophy not to take the OP seriously.

Interesting. I'm kind of skeptical. How much of that is because part of social dominance is keeping people tied to their gender roles? I've always bee...