Is Misogyny Alive and Well With Some TBMs?

[_Blixa]

I'm just sayin' TMI, guy, T. M. I.

I gave a warning, and sectioned it off. Seemed rather clinical to me. I am barely more than an abstracta around here, I can't see why this would have painted any specific pictures, let alone provoked unpleasant affect.

The "Tarski just pulled a Dehlin" thing is an insult and so is the "Medusa-like effect" comment.
Both were unnecessary. They did make me feel bad for a few minutes. So congrats.

LDSToronto. Not much I can say here without going on for quite a while.
Some opportunities to socially alienate and self position are best passed up. Unnecessary, like I said. Well, for me they would be unnecessary. My goals may be different so if that is your bag, knock yourself out.
I had been working under the assumption of mutual friendliness. Maybe I had that wrong.

I could have sworn you'd remember joking about these things before. No? Sorry, then.

[Guest]

OMG! A cupcake is known as a fairy cake in the UK!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupcake

[_LDSToronto]

Tarski,

Any who had a squeamish reaction..... Is a repressed prude. I just callz them as I seez them. No offence meant ;)

I'm not as sexy as Mr. Stakhanovite, but I'm no prude. Context is everything, man.

H.

[_Quasimodo]

Not to mention the hundred or so straight pins required to make that lace collar look good. He could give you a serious pricking.

Pun intended? Paul, care to comment? :-)

Yes, pun intended. Sometimes I can't help myself.

[_Equality]

Tarski,

I liked the anecdote. I'd never heard of that before. At the same time, I have been seeing blixa post here and at another board for several years, and she does not strike me as someone who intentionally tries to hurt someone with her words. She is very restrained and does not generally engage in personal attacks (unlike many here, including myself, at times). So I don't think she was trying to hurt you with her TMI post. And I can understand why some might have thought the anecdote misplaced. But thanks for sharing that. I'm sure it was educational to many. Learn something new every day and all that.

[_Chap]

OMG! A fairy cake is a cupcake in the UK!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupcake

Don't you mean the other way round?

[_zeezrom]

Don't you mean the other way round?

I think they were first introduced as cupcakes in the New World, Chap.

...And it was Hostess that introduced to us the wonderful "snack cupcake" in 1919.

[_Chap]

OMG! A fairy cake is a cupcake in the UK!

Don't you mean the other way round?

I think they were first introduced as cupcakes in the New World, Chap.

...And it was Hostess that introduced to us the wonderful "snack cupcake" in 1919.

Yes indeed. The thing that is called a cupcake in the US is called a fairy cake in the UK. But this is not necessary to our salvation.

[_Tarski]

You described in pretty graphic detail a sexual encounter with your wife in a thread about misogyny.

Actually, I don't think I did describe an encounter. I indicated the way it works with her every time. The position that works wasn't even mentioned. To make my point I had to acknowledge the existence of female anatomy.

Also, is there something remotely misogynistic about my observation?

It made me uncomfortable, and I'd hazard a guess that it made a couple of others squirm a bit, so I used humour to deal with the discomfort.

If you say so. Of course, I was the butt of the joke being compared to Dehlin of whom you think so little as well as implying that the thought -even in the abstract- of me having sex with my wife is like looking at a medusa.

That's all. I wasn't trying to alienate you or position myself.

I can't read minds and can't say what was in your consciousness but the external verbalizations are familiar moves even if it is common not to point such things out.

And I consider our relationship friendly.

I am glad to hear it. I will drop it then.

[_zeezrom]

Yes indeed. The thing that is called a cupcake in the US is called a fairy cake in the UK. But this is not necessary to our salvation.

OH, oops. :redface:

I mixed it up.

OK, I fixed it.