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can you feel other people sex through their postings?......I sometimes do not know if you are man or woman......sorry....because of the nicks
some of them do not show that.....or because of my ignorance may be...
Besides what I can feel as a general thing is the personality of you as persons and it is interesting that through your conversation I can imagine how you are

I know what you mean, Sandra. Some seems really clear, and others just hazy enough to not be sure. I also feel I get a sense of the person and each one is distinctively different from the next.....and then I wonder just how my image measures up against reality. With some I'll get the opportunity to find out.....and with others, I'll sadly [or gladly ] just never know. Words and the ideas that they convey are very real entities, though, and they carry ~ no matter the number of miles ~ a true energy exchange. [Metaphysics 101 ~ ]

~ Elizabeth

you are right Lizz , that is the way I feel too

Such an interesting subject Sandra!

It seems we ladies express our ideas in emotional terms. Not that men don't but we do use more the ideas or images of "feelings". It would be an interesting experiment if we could post without our log-in names...and see if we could determine whose post was whose! Male or female. Friend or foe. I think I would recognize Lizzytysh and George from Ireland, and partisan. But would I recognize some of our other fine forum members?
Hmmmm.

True, Coco ~ we do, I think, tend to be more emotive in our writing.....at least using those type terms. It would be very interesting to do a "guess who" .

~ Lizzytysh

Coco and Elizabeth,

Your views regarding the expression of men is to put it mildly a stereotypy. It could be that you prefer to choose men who have little emotional language.

But look at the history of literature, is it not men who wrote and write the majority of emotional poems, songs, and novels. And is it not still the case.

I suspect that some women on a certain level prefer men to be men, that is one-dimensional hunters, who bring them the prey, but to whom they feel on higher emotional level.

Peter

Peter, The reason that historically it was mostly men who wrote poetry, novels etc. was that until very recently it was not considered necessary to educate women to a point where they would have been capable of producing anything other than children.

No one, I mean no one could have expected that kind of reply linmag. And even though its a bit dreadful let me ask. Does the fact that woman did not have access to being writers make the mens literary contribution less emotional? Does the fact that woman now have that access make their work more emotional than mens, and it what respect?

Peter

Peter ~

I did not mean to offend you with my statement, and I can understand why you would take exception to it. When I wrote it, I thought back over the writings by men here and was commenting according to what passed through my mind. I thought of Tom Sakic, Jarkko [of course, he has his role to consider], and others, whose word choices are more neutral and objective, matter-of-factly sticking to the original issue, absent forays into other realms, triggered by [emotional associations?]. I did not think at all historically....for one thing, I am not one of the "well-reads " ~ so making a reliably historically-correct comment would be out of my league ~ though I'd at least have 50-50 odds in my favour, or maybe not, as I'd have to first tally the number of writings, and that might throw the odds off. I'm not good at statistics.

As I'm recalling, however, there are disproportionately fewer writings even available that were written by women ~ in accordance with the attitudes alluded to by linmag. So, I'm not prepared to argue, historically, anything. I didn't even like history class in high school and dreaded it in college ~ perhaps because of all the untruths it held, and the way the presentation of reality was manipulated. However, that's a whole, other topic. Back to the man-woman thing.

As a man who does use emotionally-charged words, you are understandably offended by my comment. I can think of others here whom I could include in that. However, I was just thinking of the basic posting that occurs ~ and did not mean it as a representation of "the way things are in this world" [which is still not to say that a case couldn't be made for it]. The "who's who" idea was still related strictly to here. I've noticed in the Chatroom, as well, that there's something in the way the men [at least there] express themselves, what they choose to talk about, what they say, etc., way more often than not, bear out my guesses as to whether they're male or female. These are the things that were behind my comments.

Oh-oh, full moon....... .

~ Elizabeth

The title of this thread had such potential, the content has been more than a little disappointing.

p.

when I refer to this point I meant only about theconfussion of the nick itself to identify what they mean with it
I do not want to search or discuss about sexual identity of people here

But the interesting point may be is the one we can feel at the distance through other ´s words and in general the way they react and express themselves as persons

Exactly what I'm getting at, Sandra. It's always interesting to me with the nicks, because some are totally sex-neutral. Still, I can generally figure it out. Get to test it more in the chatroom, it seems.....am generally right, so there must be something going on there with the differences in how we express ourselves, what we talk about, etc. Now, let me see, "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" ~ haven't read it, but heard about it. Always thought the title flowed better if reverse the phrases though. "Just a man wanting top billing " ~ oh dear, couldn't resist......her comes the firestorm [duck!] .

Lizzie,

What you have just said has increased my suspicion that this entire forum is monitored by "the men In black".

I think some women have a masculine brain and think pattern and some men have a feminine brain and think pattern.

I think I have a masculine think pattern. I get pissed off with some of the flowery girly comments and I am female.

Some female writers have opted for male names to sell books there is a really well known author of a well known book who is actually female but wrote the book under a male name and can somebody help me out here with the name of the author and the book I have totally forgotten!!!!!!

J K Rowling decided to use just initials as she thought the Harry Potter books would sell better if the gender was ambigous.

And lets not forget J R Hartley.

And Kermit the frog, was a feminist with a problem with her throat.

Peter