<p>Emoticons rock. Feel free. :)</p>
<p>What was the topic of this thread again?? 
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<p>Figuring out the gender of the various posters. </p>
<p>It’s been amusing.</p>
<p>We haven’t heard from any transgendered posters yet.</p>
<p>Or eunuchs. What gives?</p>
<p>k., I’ll fess up…I used to be a guy. ;)</p>
<p>This thread had a topic??</p>
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Yeah, back when I had braces. :)</p>
<p>This little pub could give SA a run for its money soon! ;)</p>
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<p>So was this thread about gender…or sex?</p>
<p>audio-
yes :D</p>
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sittin’ here waitin’ patiently for an answer <em>taps fingers</em></p>
<p>hee hee jym…ya beat me to it…now, back to gender–or sex! :)</p>
<p>You girls just want us for out bodies. We have a mind, you know! ;)</p>
<p>We males are not playthings. (We just want to be :))</p>
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Turnabout is fair play! ;)</p>
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p2n,
are you “outing” yourself? :D</p>
<p>Women in general and especially moms, are worthy of respect from the get-go. Being a mom involves a huge sacrifice and life risk for another. </p>
<p>Guess I’m old school. (Southern old school)</p>
<p>That reminds me - Aries, at least two moms (not to mention professionals) were trying to help you up the thread here. You became very tough with them, in my opinion, without reason. As a (26+ years) husband and father of two adult daughters, that was not necessary - even if you disagree with their opinion(s). They deserve respect and honor, even if you think they’re wrong.<br>
I would suggest merely nodding and listening respectfully (or the cyber version thereof) then going your own way as an alternative.</p>
<p>You would do well to have them in your corner. </p>
<p>Just my $0.02 as a bystander.</p>
<p>Oops, I just hijacked my own thread. ;)</p>
<p>It wasn’t me, it was the keyboard. I told it what to spell and it went elsewhere.</p>
<p>how did I miss this thread?!!??!!??!! </p>
<p>anyway, not to go back in time but I understand what Ariesathena was saying. If we look at powerful women of the past, they have all kinds of different life choices, and if it works for them, more power to them. </p>
<p>Do we judge those that choose to be gone from their famiies for long times to follow their dreams, do their duty, make money to support themselves?</p>
<p>Isnt it better to know thyself and do what we know is best? To often we see people jumping into relationships, becoming parents, etc only to realizlie it was a mistake, that they went into it for the wrong reasons and created a mess? I wish those people had stepped back, knew themselves better, as Ariesathena does and chosen better paths for themselves</p>
<p>My D once had to do a report on someone in history, she did it on an Irish Queen, not any old queen, but a “pirate” queen who defended her country and did follow the “traditional” roles laid out in her society…and she was darn good at her job, point is, she knew that her “calling” or whatever wasn’t the “norm” and for her it worked very well</p>
<p>Many people “love” others in different ways- I see girls say, I LOVE YOU to every guy they “date”…it means nothing really, but sounds “good”</p>
<p>as for the Catholic thing, being Catholic, never makes much sense to be to get marriage advice from guys who never even dated…my Ds just laugh at the idea</p>
<p>So, I give kudos for Ariesathena for standing up…</p>
<p>back to my gender…yep, it was toughy</p>
<p>It was the rude part that was unnecessary. The rest was fine. </p>
<p>I wish her the best. :)</p>
<p>cgm-
Wow. Did you read all 319 posts?? I hope you gave yourself an intermission! It’s pretty long. </p>
<p>As p2n stated, people (myself included) were not disagreeing with aries personal choices (in fact we were trying to be supportive); it was not what she said so much as how she said it that was unnecessary. And unfortunately there seemed to have been misunderstandings and assumptions made that led to unpleasantness. I greatly, greatly appreciate p2n’s comments, and hope that this lets us move on. This part of the thread has been much more entertaining.</p>