Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lasspvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!bellcore!petrus!sabre!zeta!epsilon!gamma!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!vax135!cornell!lasspvax!cheryl From: cheryl@lasspvax.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Name Changes ("traditions that have evolved" disappearing) Message-ID: <588@lasspvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 20:20:32 EDT Article-I.D.: lasspvax.588 Posted: Mon Oct 7 20:20:32 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Oct-85 07:03:30 EDT References: <5211@elsie.UUCP> <11302@rochester.UUCP> Reply-To: cheryl@lasspvax.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart) Organization: LASSP, Cornell University Lines: 94 Summary: In article <12074@rochester.UUCP> ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank) writes: >Stuwit gabs: >> Hey everybody!! A net.shouting-match between a real-live authoritarian >> patriarch (Frankie) and a snarling, unruly she-devil of a (GASP!) >> independent woman. >> >Independent from what? The orange you ate this morning was picked in >California, processed for shipping and transported 3000 miles to your >local grocer. Just to eat that orange made you dependent on a whole >system designed to make you VERY dependent. If you really are serious >about being independent you'll have to prove it by living out in the I don't depend on some idiot man to tell me what to do. I know you're trying to flame me back (yawn). > >Stuwit gabs: >> >> Hey, what's wrong with divorce????!!!! If it weren't for the >> >> time-honored social contract of divorce, I'd still be MARRIED!! Yuk-ola!! >> Frankie say: >> >Ask your kids. > >Stuwit gabs: >> All of my children AND GRANDCHILDREN approve of my lifestyle >> and marital status. Do yours? >> >Congradulations, you're a liberated grandma, big deal. That is incorrect! I have neither children NOR GRANDCHILDREN. It still holds true that ALL of them approve of me. Learn to spell. THEN learn simple logic & how to avoid fundamental logical traps. > >> Frankie say, >> >> >I choose to ride the train of values and tradition because I can at least >> >> >have some perspective about it's destination, if you want, you have the >> >> >choice of riding an untested, untried vehicle going only to God knows where. > >Stuwit gabs: >> >> Scaredy-cat, scaredy-cat! Better to live a life millions have >> >> already lived, rather than your own, huh? DARE to be boring!!! >> >> Frankie say, >> >I'm more an individual than people like you who are sucked along with the >> >currents and don't have a damn thing to hang onto. >> > > >Stuwit gabs: >> Look Bub, I hang onto cold hard cash and red hot men (and a certain >> of legal permutation thereof). If you don't like it, then I'll tell you >> what: there's a "train of values and tradition" leaving at 7:14 EMT. >> Be under it. > >Bub says: If your the typical ___________ driver (fill in the gender), then >most likely you will run me over with your train. > Oh, wow. Don't you mean "you're the typical..."? Do you remember third grade? >Stuwit gabs: > >> Frankie say, >> >Again, change to what? Just because you find change is good for you does >> >not mean it is good for everyone. Wake up and realize that small tidbit >> >of info, well you? I must ask this; aren't you just somewhat self-serving >> >here, hoping that by change you will realize some goal that is good for you >> >but has no real impact on the rest of us? If this is the case then good >> >for you, I hope you realize your goals. In this case, change can be good >> >for you and totally indifferent to me. > >Stuwit gabs: >> An environmental change that I adapt to (and that you can't) is good for me >> (and my kids) -- and bad for you (and your kids, unless they're smart >> enough to rebel). Of course I'm self-serving. Whom would you rather >> I serve? Some MAN? Gag me with a glass slipper! Oh, barf! >> >Environmental change ?!! What the hell are you preparing for, another ice age? >Self-serving? What we have here is a genuine 'ME' person. I'm a 'ME' person >too, I would rather be 'ME' than 'YOU'. >What we also have here is an apparent man hater who 'gulp' eats glass slippers, >sounds kind of kinky any way you look at it. >bye bye birdie, the weekend is here and I think I'll go on the hunt, foxes >everywhere you know. May you bag a vacuous stunade to complete your neolithic social environment. Cheryl Stewart "How'm I doin'?"