Selma, Frederick was pretty touchy about my advice on the hair-dye and the Rogaine wasn't he? Quickly took that to the youth worshipping tendency in the West before I could say "godrej" and "kashti".
I agree (not too seriously) when you say that ageism is a gender thing. I have twins, a boy and a girl who are now 21. The boy Richard, is a strong silent type. Well read and a good communicator but will not interfere until he fells there is some injustice being said or done. She, Victoria, is equally intelligent, a little too too logical for a woman but defintely politically correct and blah blah, blah, just like the majority of the fairer species. When I rant at home about the driving habits of the Chinese or the lack of family values of the West Indians or the pronunciations of the Filipinos, she is immediately on my case, saying "dad, you are a racist, dad you are too old, or dad you're out of it.". He on the other hand, will immediately butt in saying "dad is just telling it as he sees it.". I have fun with their sibling rivalry and add a little flame-bait from time to time, telling her that he is "my son in whom I am well-pleased" and that I shall be leaving all the Assagao property to him since he is the son of the family and Goans leave everything to the male heir. While my wife will yell from the kitchen "don't worry Victoria, he doesn't have any Assagao property ", Victoria, set off like a firecracker, will go into a lecture on how dinsosauric Goan thinking is. I have fun with Victoria. She is a serious young woman. Except for the woman part, just like our Fred. He takes everything too seriously. Roland. On 11/7/06, Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Frederick, > > Ageism is not a culture thing, it's a gender thing. > While we women appreciate our men and wine, aged and > mature, men on the other hand like women to be forever > young. > Women can't win!!!:) > Selma > --------------------------------------- > > --- "Frederick \"FN\" Noronha" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > PS: Can we form an "oldies" club out here... just to > > fight the age-ism > > (as bad as racism or genderism and speciesism) of > > most Goanetters? In > > the West, you guys worship youth. In the East, we > > respect age and > > experience! So it's a perception gap.... _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
