DEATH IN THE FAMILY
We interrupt this TRIVIA PARTY in order to bring you this breaking news story. This morning, my dad's cat, fat Tuesday (a.k.a. Mardi Gras), went "gentle into that good night..." Dad sent me and Pit Pat an email today, where he said the following: There was never another cat that we liked so much. I'll really miss that piece of shit.
Maybe if you knew my dad, you would appreciate how incredibly effusive and sentimental that statement is.
Oh dear.
Breaks m'heart.
3 Comments:
Your fathers statement sums it up. Emotions are there, intact but, they're not going to bog him down and surely not going to keep him from doing what needs to get done. Emotions are like a luxury to men, if everything is in good order we'll partake until it turns into tail chasing. (the kind with the dog) Unfortunately too many women use this venue to bully men when their really hopeless head cases. Wren, you seem pretty damn independent, thats what men like, if you stay that way men will open up. If your too needy they'll clamp down. I spent time in a relationship as a human adulation device for a woman, never again.Best to ya JJ
2/05/2007
I have a lot to say on the topic of culture and gender. Although I will not attempt to express all of those thoughts here in this tiny comment box, I will say the following:
Emotions are an essential part of being human. They distinguish us from robots. Didn’t you see that episode from Star Trek: The Next Generation where the android implants an ‘emotion chip’ under his creepy fake hair flap in an effort to become more human??
S’ok. Draw a line on a piece of paper and label it ‘Emotional Expression.’ On the left side of the line, write the word ‘none’ and on the right side, write ‘lots.’ Now look! We’ve constructed a spectrum, see? Every human being falls somewhere on this spectrum. While I might agree that most American men tend to cluster around the left (although anger IS an emotion, and I don’t see American men having problems expressing that) and most American women tend to gather around the right, I think it’s unfair to assume or expect any individual to be one or the other based on gender alone. Furthermore, it is not ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ to lean to one side, almost all of us do, but it can be unhealthy to live in either extreme. I’ve had relationships with people that live in both extremes and I’ve come to realize that I like the middle.
Finally, I would like to leave with this general public service announcement:
Their = belongs to them
They're = they are
Your = belongs to you
You're = you are
I’m a fucking teacher. What do you expect?
2/06/2007
The spelling lesson was helpful. But was that really spelling? Maybe grammer? Christ! Maybe a bit of punctuation tossed in there to really confuse things. By the way, what does a fucking teacher teach? It makes me want to go back to college. And while Im there I might as well take an english class right.On the other stuff. Since neither of us sound like intellegent design types Im curious why you think emotions evolved.Probably each of them for some specific reason right? But even after the reason no longer exist the emotions hang on. Just sort of homeless emotions.I think there are some of those that get expressed just for the sake of getting expressed. I agree with your Sam and Sarah spectrum stuff and livin in the middle. Women are getting competative at expressing anger though. I also agree there is too much to talk about in a comment box. .Till then JJ
2/06/2007
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