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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.
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> 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.
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> Corbie
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