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[SuzeQuze]

The fact that the package is more important to people than the content really irks me.

[gretchen]

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

The fact that the package is more important to people than the content really irks me.

I understand what you're saying totally, but humans are visual animals, it is in our very nature...for better or worse you know?

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by gretchen

I understand what you're saying totally, but humans are visual animals, it is in our very nature...for better or worse you know?

Yeah but we also have brains, you know? I wish more people used theirs.

[gretchen]

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

Yeah but we also have brains, you know? I wish more people used theirs.

Oh I agree.

[Sorceress]

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

The fact that the package is more important to people than the content really irks me.

Yes, and it also bothers me that this type of package has so much appeal.

"Gidget goes to Washington."

"She is playing into a cultural stereotype," says Drew Westen, a psychiatry professor at Emory University who also works as a Democratic consultant and wrote "The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation." And the stereotype? Westen cites Marlo Thomas in "That Girl," Mary Tyler Moore in the "The Dick Van Dyke Show," Sally Field in "The Flying Nun" -- a model of perky femininity that "was really salient in the early '60s before the sexual revolution and the cultural revolution took hold."

So she gets away with saying whatever she wants because either: a) people are apparently distracted by the "cuteness" and don't listen to what she is saying, or b) people apparently need a woman's authority to be cloaked in cuteness in order to not be threatened by her?

I just don't get it.

[BombaySapphire3]

QUOTE=Sorceress;777454]Yes, but nearly everyone who was engaged in those discussions seems to have vanished too. Even without anyone to argue with, there's so much to talk about these days. Where is everyone?"

Well it looks like ajmccarrell has been suspended again..I didn't cause it this time thoughI actually tried to help the boy.

[GoS]

Originally Posted by BombaySapphire3

QUOTE=Sorceress;777454]Yes, but nearly everyone who was engaged in those discussions seems to have vanished too. Even without anyone to argue with, there's so much to talk about these days. Where is everyone?"

Well it looks like ajmccarrell has been suspended again..I didn't cause it this time thoughI actually tried to help the boy.

Why/When did he get suspended?

[BombaySapphire3]

Originally Posted by GoS

Why/When did he get suspended?

I don't know about this time but he has been put on '"registered " status and can't post, a temporary banning ?which is what he was on last time when I admittedly baited him into going on a rant..I later made peace with him after he gave a very heartfelt explanation about what he has been through in his life..I disagree with him 95% of the time about politics but he did keep things moving around here that is certain.

[GoS]

Originally Posted by BombaySapphire3

I don't know about this time but he has been put on '"registered " status and can't post, a temporary banning ?which is what he was on last time when I admittedly baited him into going on a rant..I later made peace with him after he gave a very heartfelt explanation about what he has been through in his life..I disagree with him 95% of the time about politics but he did keep things moving around here that is certain.

I saw that he was put on "registered" status, he hasn't posted in a while, and that his signature was removed. I didn't notice anything too offensive in most of his posts. He and I had just been exchanging PM's and actually getting along. The boards are so boring without him.

[GoS]

Originally Posted by BombaySapphire3

I don't know about this time but he has been put on '"registered " status and can't post, a temporary banning ?which is what he was on last time when I admittedly baited him into going on a rant..I later made peace with him after he gave a very heartfelt explanation about what he has been through in his life..I disagree with him 95% of the time about politics but he did keep things moving around here that is certain.

Oo, I know!! http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=37516

That is hilarious!!! That'll explain why he and Shackin' Up were suspended.

[BombaySapphire3]

Originally Posted by GoS

Oo, I know!! http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=37516

That is hilarious!!! That'll explain why he and Shackin' Up were suspended.

Oh senor!! I had never seen this one.the poor guy never does know when someone is playing him.