On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:41:19AM -0800, James Busser wrote: >>> Supposedly he is suffering from: Fear of women looking better than him >>> and it is clinically relevant. >> >> Is that even possible ? > > I don't know the character Denny Crane very well, but I am guessing that > for him, the fear may not not possible (even while, given his advancing > years, women *can* actually look better than him). Either way he'll forget about it anyways due to his suffering of Mad Cow Disease, I mean Alzheimer's.
> On the other hand Kirk, while as vain Crane, and *mostly* confident, is > sometimes allowed to behave in a conflicted and uncertain fashion even only > when under alien influence. And, of course, he has on at least one episode > had his body taken over by a woman. Therefore, I think this character has > the capacity to fear women looking better than him. The irony is that he > has nothing to fear because, in the world inhabited by Kirk, even from the > view of "straight" men, it is implausible that women could *actually* look > better than him. :-) > > Even if the fear was normally manageable, and did not normally interfere > with Kirk's daily functioning, as captain a lot of responsibility is > carried, entitling Bones to keep an eye on it and therefore justifying > labeling it clinically relevant. :-))) Isn't it scary how international trivial media soaps are ? Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
