Re: [Goanet] Re: War and women
--- Elisabeth Carvalho wrote: It's true that women can fight as dirty as men but I think the motivations are different. Men are ferociously competitive. As Genghis Khan said, It is not sufficient that I succeed. Everyone else must fail. Mario asks: Genghis Khan?! Who made old Genghis the spokesman for all men? I know I facetiously referred to the men on Goanet as barbarians when welcoming the growing number of women on the forum, practically unhinging one overly-sensitive Canadian, but this is ridiculous:-)) Elisabeth writes: Women on the other hand stop at I must succeed. Perhaps I'm looking at it with rose-tinted glasses and a slighly biased point of view. Mario observes: I wonder if those who were crushed by the aggressive, as-dirty, fighting tendencies of Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher were able to appreciate the nuanced difference in the motivations of these modern, PMS-fueled female warriors and the overheated philosophy of a REAL old-time PPD-burdened barbarian like Genghis Khan :-)) _ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list (Goanet@goanet.org)
Re: [Goanet] Re: War and women
It's true that women can fight as dirty as men but I think the motivations are different. Men are ferociously competitive. As Genghis Khan said, It is not sufficient that I succeed. Everyone else must fail. Women on the other hand stop at I must succeed. Perhaps I'm looking at it with rose-tinted glasses and a slighly biased point of view. Elisabeth --- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: George Further to posts on Goanet, and just by way of a small aside, Margaret Thatcher was deemed, by some in the UK, to be the only man in her cabinet at the time of the Falklands war. Another point made by some bloke said that, women's continuing wars are in the home i.e the expression and manifestation of aggression inwards onto the man of the house. Men's are channelled externally for the above reason! Regret I can't vouch for the authenticity of the second saying. Cornel - Original Message - From: George Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@goanet.org Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:01 PM Subject: [Goanet] Re: War and women --- Elisabeth Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which is why we'd have fewer wars if more women were incharge. Golda Mier, Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher all took their nations to war. As a proportional percentage of women leaders, their war instincts were no better than men. Sadly. Regards, George _ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list (Goanet@goanet.org) _ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list (Goanet@goanet.org) __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list (Goanet@goanet.org)
Re: [Goanet] Re: War and women
George Further to posts on Goanet, and just by way of a small aside, Margaret Thatcher was deemed, by some in the UK, to be the only man in her cabinet at the time of the Falklands war. Another point made by some bloke said that, women's continuing wars are in the home i.e the expression and manifestation of aggression inwards onto the man of the house. Men's are channelled externally for the above reason! Regret I can't vouch for the authenticity of the second saying. Cornel - Original Message - From: George Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@goanet.org Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:01 PM Subject: [Goanet] Re: War and women --- Elisabeth Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which is why we'd have fewer wars if more women were incharge. Golda Mier, Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher all took their nations to war. As a proportional percentage of women leaders, their war instincts were no better than men. Sadly. Regards, George _ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list (Goanet@goanet.org) _ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list (Goanet@goanet.org)
