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Date Posted: 09:06:34 04/24/03 Thu
Author: eom
Author Host/IP: 216-80-98-116.d.enteract.com / 216.80.98.116
Subject: this is the kind of behavior that got you banned at peta. nt
In reply to: Khronos 's message, "Well you we're being trolled but..." on 06:12:04 04/24/03 Thu

>I think the statement has validity. Guns, swords,
>etc. are phallic symbols. As a general rule women
>avoid them, don't feel comfortable using them, don't
>have the same social pressures as children to look up
>to them as symbols of power (distinctly masculine
>power).
>
>While it is true to point out that obsessive
>compulsive behavior includes all sorts of other
>pastimes (computers, D&D minitures, cars, sneakers,
>etc.) most of those aren't nearly so phallic in
>nature. And when I say phallic I'm not just refering
>to shape (although is it coincidental that guns and
>knives aren't just phallic in nature but also in
>shape?), but more to an underlying masculine nature
>and purpose. Cars can certainly be a phallic-esque
>obsession for people, but it's not as deeply
>fundamental as a weapon. Like I said men's
>fascination with impliments of killing/destruction has
>a very long history. It predates us as a species and
>has it's genesis amoung the first hunter-gatherers
>H. habilus (and perhaps even earlier). We're
>talking at least a four million year old jones of
>penile proportions!

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  • Re: Well you we're being trolled but... -- Gwydion, 12:16:54 04/24/03 Thu
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