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To: Dark Mirage
[much drama about gender discrimination elided]... If you don't think this requires maturity, you're living in a dream world.

I hate to tell you this, as it might upset your comfy victimhood, but lots of people (men AND women) live with these kinds of battles on a daily basis. It isn't unique to you, and is generally referred to as "life" in the English language. I've been very disadvantaged most of my life, but you'll never see me stew in it or whine about it. I wish people would grow some spine; being pathetic is not an endearing characteristic, and is hardly conducive to overcoming the problems most people face in life. Women have problems unique to women, and men have problems unique to men -- so what?

Continuing to fight the good fight, and dealing with reality rather than whining about how reality is unfair, is a good starting point for a definition of "maturity". No matter how badly the deck is stacked against you, you have to stop making excuses and start taking responsibility for the decisions you make based on the hand you get. Period. Anything else is childish.

P.S. "troll" = "intentionally inflammatory for its own sake"

715 posted on 07/08/2002 11:29:05 AM PDT by tortoise
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