At 07:58 PM 9/10/02 -0700, Michael Irwin wrote:
Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
At 03:08 AM 9/11/02 +0200, Jaap wrote:
As for all the nasty comments about banning Helga -- well, first, this
particular playground belongs to Jimbo and BOMIS
One should never engage in serious discussions with women anyway. They are not genetically equiped for it.
If I said anything equivalent about men, you and lots of other people
would be,
justifiably, up in arms.
If this is really your attitude, you are not mature enough to be working on this, or any, project with adults of any sex. If it isn't, I want an apology for the insult. No, it isn't funny. And saying you were only joking will not convince anyone of anything except that you don't have the guts to admit you said something stupid.
Actually, I got quite a laugh out of it.
You aren't the one being insulted.
Relieved a lot of recent built up tension. Might be an American blue collar trait which shares characteristics of the Netherland's history of commercial imperialism. OTOH I worked in a plywood plant in Oregon to finance my education, so I might just be a redneck.
Not a blue-collar/other distinction, I think, so much as that it's much easier to find insults funny when you aren't the one being insulted.