At 18:12 19/08/97 -0500, Corbie wrote:
>On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Mara Riley wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Karl Alexis McKinnon wrote:
>> >         I try not to show it.  I understand the environmental and
>> > evolutionary psychology behind my feelings.  (Well, not too much the
>> > evolutionary part of it).  If it bleeds through sometimes, I apologize.
>> > Please understand it's nothing at all personal.
>> >         Part of it is general mistanthropy.  I feel that is justified.
>>
>> Not sure exactly what you're referring to -- can you clue me in as to
>> which group you feel misanthropic about?
>
>        I feel misanthropic towards humanity in general.  I also have a
>misogynistic streak to me that I try not to act on.  I tend to supress it
>as much as I can because I see it as blaiming the victim.  I've seen so
>much patriarchy gone awry from my short study of history, from footbinding
>to Victorian "cult of true womanhood" that sometimes I get a little angry
>that women have not taken female infanticide to its extreme and ENDED the
>human race.  When I think of situations like the Mongol conquest of China,
>where footbind was outlawed but secretly practiced -BY WOMEN- I feel that
>my disdain for the fairer sex is not entirely unjustified.
>
>
Not to mention the circumcision of females in some eastern and african
countries!
And the plundering and poolution of the earth in the name of profit and power.
I can understand where you're coming from.

Lynton