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.


>
> Corbie
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