'Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe'... Beatles... This is playing while i look at this post.. Sort of a weird coincidence seeing the conversation about words.. On Mar 8, 2015 9:52 PM, "Molly" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Allan already admitted he was using it as a way to tell Gabby to grow up. > If you call a grown woman a big girl or girl, it is demeaning because you > are implying they are immature or not as intelligent. If you call a three > year old a big girl, they may appreciate you noticing that they are growing > up. No brainer. > > On Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 12:15:27 PM UTC-4, Chris Jenkins wrote: >> >> Hold up, now, there has to be SOME understanding of colloquial use of >> language if there's any hope to achieve common ground. "Big boy" and "Big >> girl" are very much colloquial ways to describe someone who is grown up and >> capable of taking care of themselves. It's not specifically gendered for >> the purpose of gender, and it's not the same casual usage of "girl" which >> causes offense to those sensitive to such. >> >> The language police have become much more aggressive, I see. >> >> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Molly <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Allan, calling a woman a girl is well known to be gender insensitive. If >> you don't think so, suggest you brush up or this may not be the last time >> you are called out for it. If indeed we are all supportive for human >> rights, we can bring ourselves to be sensitive to what the other feels when >> bearing the brunt of our words. Here in the states, calling a man a boy can >> get you in a great deal of trouble depending on the color of your skin and >> the region that your feet are currently planted upon. Words do matter, and >> claiming what is said is said in jest or is insignificant is an age old way >> to discount the reality of inequity, and always shows itself to be exactly >> what it is to people with attitudes that truly support human rights. So >> many of our words come to us through social conditioning, we don't >> understand the origin or inequity. It is incumbent on each of us to try. >> Tolerance of biased or abusive attitudes creates cultures of inequity. >> >> >> On Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 11:59:10 AM UTC-4, Allan Heretic wrote: >> >> To me all " big girl " is saying is she is an adult and of female >> gender.. nothing more.. unless may be grow up. No different some one >> telling me I am a big boy.. >> >> But if i say the sun is shining Gabby is offended.. if she is offended i >> will stop using it.. >> >> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين >> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Molly <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Sun, 08 Mar 2015 4:38 PM >> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: We are going backwards. >> >> Also, I have to go with Gabby on this one. Calling her a big girl is >> gender insensitive and demeaning. >> >> On Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 11:27:40 AM UTC-4, Allan Heretic wrote: >> >> I am trying to find out why our big girl Gabby is so bothered be me?? Is >> Gabby's soul felling a bit guilty over what..that is a real question.. >> >> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين >> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: archytas <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Sun, 08 Mar 2015 4:16 PM >> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: We are going backwards. >> >> Do you have false teeth by any chance Gabby? If so, could you have a >> second set made, then you could leave them in situ after biting his ass, >> and save the rest of us from the thiedium? >> >> On Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 2:05:11 PM UTC, Gabby wrote: >> >> Big girl - that's not my wording, not my style, not how I view myself. >> It's true, I was trying to make a constructive suggestion to get us out >> of your barking at us and twisting our words to draw the focus of attention >> to your soul perspective. Can you think of another solution so we others do >> not have to constantly feel attacked? >> >> Am Sonntag, 8. März 2015 schrieb : >> >> If you want the topic opened, open it Gabby. You keep telling me you are >> a big girl.. >> >> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين >> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: gabbydott <[email protected]> >> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sun, 08 Mar 2015 2:34 PM >> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: We are going backwards. >> >> Soul is a place holder for "guilty conscious" in this context here, I >> suppose. I suggest you open a thread with the header "soul" and you collect >> all the different meanings you have identified us others associate with it. >> We would also profit from it by being able to go there when in need of >> translation options for your "soul" usage. And you could be sure it was >> your very own translation that is being used by the others. What do you >> think? >> >> Am Sonntag, 8. März 2015 schrieb : >> >> When people do wrong knowing they justify it because their soul knows it >> is wrong and they should not be doing it. >> >> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين >> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: RP Singh <[email protected]> >> To: Minds Eye <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sun, 08 Mar 2015 8:57 AM >> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: We are going backwards. >> >> Sure Allan, but these criminals seek excuses to justify themselves to >> others and themselves. As a matter of fact there is no excuse for any crime >> and a criminal has to bear the consequences of his act. >> >> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 12:02 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> There is no justification for rape in any form or of any gender. >> >> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين >> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: RP Singh <[email protected]> >> To: Minds Eye <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sun, 08 Mar 2015 3:36 AM >> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: We are going backwards. >> >> The women dressing sense developed in the west gradually and it was not >> copying others but an indigenous matter and as it was a gradual process the >> western society as a whole was able to accept it. But in India it was not >> so, some educated girls started copying the west and Indian society as a >> whole was not prepared for it, and that is the reason that some backward >> sections of our society find it unacceptable, but still it has nothing to >> do with rape, which is a criminal act and done by criminal people. The >> reasons that such people give for it is just a justification for their >> criminal deed and not the real reason. >> >> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 6:21 AM, RP Singh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The argument that there are rapes in India because girls are not raised >> up as equals with comparison to boys is not correct. If today girls are >> entering into the workforce is not as a result of girls asserting >> themselves but because their families are giving them a chance to make a >> career for themselves. The parents, brothers, and husbands are co-operating >> with the girls, they are encouraging the girls to go out and become career >> girls and this is not limited to just the urban population but also >> applicable to villagers. Consider the position of women a few centuries >> back in Europe and America, they were just housewives and were not >> encouraged to become doctors and engineers. India was an occupied coun >> >> ... > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > ""Minds Eye"" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
