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Reply #29: Maybe I am a male, but saying that males don't get it doesn't work
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Wed Oct-08-03 02:41 PM
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29. Maybe I am a male, but saying that males don't get it doesn't work |
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I posted one of them "get over it" posts. Perhaps they were the intemperate words or they offended some. This is the problem exactly. To criticize to belittle is different from doing a critique to encourage people to maybe look at what went wrong and try to make it work. It is easy to see the problem with this in a few ways.
The biggest thing is when people have been attacked relentlessly they are automatically put in defense mode and lash out at anything that offends them. To that point I would offer apologies. What some might try to understand is how others use this tactic to gain the upper hand and even mend the very synapses in your brain to thinking this way. One needs look no further than Pavlov’s dogs.
I would like to make others aware when some people that others would see as weak minded people find places of others that they like to pounce on them for. Through this may help gain strength for the oppressed in the long run once they have overcome it. But it also in the long run it does not help others that depend on you for leadership and are being let down by such actions.
There are many here from what I can detect that are or could be leaders, they instinctively do things and are mostly immune from such attacks
If you find words threatening just remember some people only use words after they do their thing and you are not helping victims of people that use such actions. If you show strength people will follow
The person that some people feel angry about has shown much weakness. What I would like to point out is the supporters of such have shown even more, if you cannot understand this look at what they did and compromised to get their way. Then also look what they have to work with good and bad. It works both ways many times.
If freeper speak is "get over it" what would you prefer, "Find some intestinal fortitude", because it's never over and others must go on and still live their lives
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