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To: Fatalis
About me? Not a thing, I'm just another poster... But if you have to ask repeatedly why you should be grateful for something, or even what that something is, then it's going to be hard for you to argue that you aren't ungrateful for it.

You misunderstand.... We are asking very specifically about you, because you are the one telling us that we are, as a class, inappreciative of you and ungrateful. I want to know what you brought with you to the table, besides some idea that women have it pretty good in this country. That isn't yours to give.

I appreciate and am grateful for my husband. But I don't overgeneralize, that would diminish him. He isn't the one on here berating American women, you are.

375 posted on 12/06/2004 12:03:57 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog
You misunderstand.... We are asking very specifically about you, because you are the one telling us that we are, as a class, inappreciative of you and ungrateful.

I actually understand very well. I made generalizations about American men and women, and you and a few others took those generalizations personally. If generalizations don't apply to you, then don't worry about them.


But I don't overgeneralize, that would diminish him.

That's not how generalizations work. Generalizations are not specific.


He isn't the one on here berating American women, you are.

LOL, I made a negative generalization, and rather than refute the generalization as a generalization, you've internalized it and personalized it. I don't know you and have no idea if any of the generalization would apply to you.

There are cultural phenomena at work, and it takes generalizations to discuss and undestand them. By their nature, cultural phenomena are general.

Do you really assume that there's not any applicable negative generalization about American women that might be a factor in these phenomena?

408 posted on 12/06/2004 12:21:09 PM PST by Fatalis
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