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leejosepho
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With the amount of topics and quality of posts that we can easily have for a potential forum, do you think it's reasonable that men (Aspie men, mind you) don't have their own forum here?
Yes, why of course it's reasonable. Men are not women, therefore men are evil.
Ah, so that is what you "... do to feel manly ... How ...you handle your masculinity, etc?", eh?!
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With the amount of topics and quality of posts that we can easily have for a potential forum, do you think it's reasonable that men (Aspie men, mind you) don't have their own forum here?
Yes, why of course it's reasonable. Men are not women, therefore men are evil.
Ah, so that is what you "... do to feel manly ... How ...you handle your masculinity, etc?", eh?!
Welcome to the club, Lee. We could learn a lot from you with your wisdom and experience as a man.
Show us the way.
iamnotaparakeet
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With the amount of topics and quality of posts that we can easily have for a potential forum, do you think it's reasonable that men (Aspie men, mind you) don't have their own forum here?
Yes, why of course it's reasonable. Men are not women, therefore men are evil.
So A is not equal to B. Therefore, A is equal to C?
Bleh, use your blasted analytical abilities to recognize a joke or I'll threaten to invent a new system of punctuation styled after BBCode that will serve to indicate emotion in a formalized treatment so boring that it will cause everyone to go to sleep. Forever!! !
leejosepho
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Ah, so maybe that is what you "... do to feel manly ... How ...you handle your masculinity, etc?"
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iamnotaparakeet
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Ah, so maybe that is what you "... do to feel manly ... How ...you handle your masculinity, etc?"
Ah, so maybe that is what you "... do to feel manly ... How ...you handle your masculinity, etc?" Eh?! Eh?! ! Eh?! !!
leejosepho
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Show us the way.
Ah, all anyone needs there is to learn how to survive several thousands of A.A. meetings over 30+ years ...
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With the amount of topics and quality of posts that we can easily have for a potential forum, do you think it's reasonable that men (Aspie men, mind you) don't have their own forum here?
I don't think the idea (to have a men's forum) has been banned.....just that there doesn't seem to be enough interest. If this (sticky, therefore prioritised) thread starts getting really busy, I expect we'll get a forum.
But in my experience, men's groups don't usually take off.
iamnotaparakeet
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With the amount of topics and quality of posts that we can easily have for a potential forum, do you think it's reasonable that men (Aspie men, mind you) don't have their own forum here?
I don't think the idea (to have a men's forum) has been banned.....just that there doesn't seem to be enough interest. If this (sticky, therefore prioritised) thread starts getting really busy, I expect we'll get a forum.
But in my experience, men's groups don't usually take off.
I think there is enough interest. This thread has only lasted a day or two and is already 4 pages long with somewhat coherent conversation and primarily civility even with my attempts at controversy included. I think a men's forum would to well for Wrong Planet, even if the previous one hadn't.
leejosepho
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Even stickies are supposed to have Alex' approval, yet mods still sometimes make them on their own as long as the top of any forum index does not become engulfed with them.
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With the amount of topics and quality of posts that we can easily have for a potential forum, do you think it's reasonable that men (Aspie men, mind you) don't have their own forum here?
I don't think the idea (to have a men's forum) has been banned.....just that there doesn't seem to be enough interest. If this (sticky, therefore prioritised) thread starts getting really busy, I expect we'll get a forum.
But in my experience, men's groups don't usually take off.
I think there is enough interest. This thread has only lasted a day or two and is already 4 pages long with somewhat coherent conversation and primarily civility even with my attempts at controversy included. I think a men's forum would to well for Wrong Planet, even if the previous one hadn't.
We'll see. It'll be a good test of whether or not men have any staying power. I'd like to be wrong.
leejosepho
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Ah, so maybe that is what you "... do to feel manly ... How ...you handle your masculinity, etc?"
Ah, so maybe that is what you "... do to feel manly ... How ...you handle your masculinity, etc?" Eh?! Eh?! ! Eh?! !!
At times, yes!
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Another topic: What type of science fiction do you like better? The kind that is basically a love story just using space as a background, or the type that is basically a war story using space instead of oceans? Or, for a third kind, Outer Limits variety which gets into philosophical issues primarily while using characters to display their philosophies?
Example answer: I prefer sci-fi novels about wars in space.
Example answer: I prefer sci-fi novels about wars in space.
Don't know if mine fits those categories - it's a Brian Aldiss story about a guy who notices his whole family seems to be living through a weird, stereotyped existence, where everything they say and do seems somehow wooden and artificial. He eventually discovers the truth - he's an alien who (unknown to himself) has been planted in a family to absorb Earthling culture, for use in an intended invasion. But the Earthling authorities have a way of smoking the aliens out - they allow the aliens to infiltrate "dummy" families made up of actors, who deliberately make their behaviour as featureless as possible, which eventually drives the aliens to break out and get caught, because they can't function or remain sane without features to absorb.
My next best story is "The Cold Equations" which tells of a young girl stowing away on a freight ship in spite of notices that stowaways will be executed. To her, that's just a silly rule that there must be some way round, and the story is the conversation between her and the guard who discovers her......the problem is that there isn't enough fuel to carry her extra weight, and there's no way to avoid the whole ship crashing into the destination planet, unless she is removed, which means she'll die in space. They fail to solve the problem because there is no solution.
I don't think they quite fit into "war" or "love." It's mostly the human interest factor that grabs me, both stories are about somebody discovering some profound and devastating fact, both explore how it feels to be thinking and acting in ignorance of that fact. The science fiction aspect is just an attractive backdrop.
Does anybody know the title of that first story?
With the amount of topics and quality of posts that we can easily have for a potential forum, do you think it's reasonable that men (Aspie men, mind you) don't have their own forum here?
Yes, why of course it's reasonable. Men are not women, therefore men are evil.
So A is not equal to B. Therefore, A is equal to C?
Bleh, use your blasted analytical abilities to recognize a joke or I'll threaten to invent a new system of punctuation styled after BBCode that will serve to indicate emotion in a formalized treatment so boring that it will cause everyone to go to sleep. Forever!! !
Meh, I was just trying to find something clever to respond with.