[henry quirk]

dana:

my comments about men and women were in the context of my perceptions as applied to the notion of the 'unbook'

i said 'anecdotal' and 'anecdotally', not 'empirically'

so: if you're looking for a fight on the very boring subject of men and women, then you'd best look elsewhere...if you dislike my method of pissing on the 'unbook', fine, but you stay far a'field of the thread if you go elsewhere

if you're looking to example your erudition, there are probably better ways to do so...though, to be frank, i don't hold out high hopes for anyone who self-describes as 'armchair socialist'...to self-describe in such a way is, to my mind, the expression of a desire to be absorbed by a greater whole (to become 'cog'), the very notion being hellish to me, and damning, in my opinion, of you

and: if by way of this -- 'Except in academia, where I am very competitive, individualistic, and ambitious.' -- you intend to offer evidence of 'anything', then i must counter: 'academia' is a shelter, a cloister, a dodge away from, and a con on, 'the world'

in other words: 'academia' and 'hen house' (and socialism as far as that goes) have much in common...an obsessive interest in what comes out the nether regions of body or mind, and a fevered desire for 'the world' to see the 'egg' (or bit of shit) as something more impressive than 'egg' (or bit of shit)

*shrug*

as of now: i see no reason to amend myself... --henry