I dare to write about: Men and Women Today

[seabeyond]

300. frstly, i think it is highly offensive for me to presume that i could have any role at all in

the diagnosing of another human being, lacking any kind of real information about the person. i am floored that anyone would feel they and others have that right. i mean it sincerely. who would i be to give somebody that garbage, totally unknown by me.

so maybe my position i hold, feeling a strong responsibility in the area of not deciding who another is, is a huge part of the offense.

another problem i have, be it man or woman, to use that as a means to dismiss what another says, instead of addressing the actual issue, is cowardly, in my book.

i also see it as a form of humiliating and shaming to silence.

it is also something society has conditioned both genders that this is who women are. so it is an easy, go to, to silence another. used as a weapon to keep women down.

also, people that have been hurt should not be dismissed because they are emotional. period. be it a rant or whatever, .... i want to hear. agree or not. but, never silence that voice.

also, i do not believe in the term damaged, per se. we use that often with women, damaged goods.

lastly, and my personal reason i refuse to allow? i have had a lifetime, the majority of men and boys around me. each and every one good people. people i love. people who love me. and to have these strangers on a board tell me the reason i speak out is because these people in my life has hurt me is so infuriatingly insulting to those i love. my people may not know they are being insulted. i do. and i refuse to allow some strangers to continually tell me, the only reason i use my voice on du for gender issues is because i am damaged, by the men i love, and need psychiatric help.

and no one on du should be ok with a group of women being treated like this.

finally, talk about the issue. i will reply to what you put in your post. appreciate the same. but talk the issue. it is not so hard. right now, the issue having fellow du members feeling free to discuss my and other dues mental health.