Star Gazer Posted June 7, 2007 Posted June 7, 2007 I want to meet a few people on here. Well, you're coming to the wedding, aren't ya?
laRubiaBonita Posted June 8, 2007 Posted June 8, 2007 there are also many younger poster on LS. it is hard to remember, for me at least. and i personally think that the Y generation is spoon-fed and very naive.
LoveLace Posted June 8, 2007 Posted June 8, 2007 the only two commonalities I've found about people on LS is that they may be 1) smarter than average, and 2) more computer/internet savvy than average. So true Alpha
Trimmer Posted June 8, 2007 Posted June 8, 2007 I know it's hard for me to explain this..but what I meant is that I often find the posts from men (not all men here) are just 'over the top' and arrogant... therefore narrow-minded. I find most (not all) women are more 'sensitive' to others therefore taking care to write in a diplomatic way... These are not assumptions, these are feelings I have from time to time from posts I read...nothing more. I know how to distinguish arrogance (sarcasm) and honesty... and I am not saying that what they are posting is false... Maybe we're just misunderstanding each other... not sure. I guess I wasn't clear.. I understand what you are saying here... It was this passage I was responding to: I even thought at some point that some 'men' are women in reality... I know it sounds weird but I often feel that, when I read a post from a guy, that it is written the way a woman would feel about the 'problem'... It was over the edge of me to infer that you were saying they were falsified, but I found it interesting that your observations about "some men" being arrogant and narrow minded (a point with which I do not argue) have given you a bias so that when you come across individual men who are different, your instinct immediately jumps to "that's the way women post." In other words, when a man exhibits arrogant behavior, we group him with the men and say "this is supporting evidence of the behavior of some men", but when a man exhibits caring, sensitive behavior, we are less likely to say "this is evidence of the behavior of some men" than we are to say "oh, that sounds like a woman..." And I'm not busting your chops over this and trying to turn it into a fight, I just see it as an interesting observation. We all - myself included - struggle with this in all kinds of different ways.
Trimmer Posted June 8, 2007 Posted June 8, 2007 there are also many younger poster on LS. it is hard to remember, for me at least. and i personally think that the Y generation is spoon-fed and very naive. Yeah, it's interesting - I have started using the "New Posts" button, which gives you a long list of recent posts without regard to which forum they are in. So sometimes I will click on a post with a potentially interesting subject like "Dating question, should I ask?" or something like that, and it will look like: d00d, im in 10th grade and i askd my frnd, wht r u doing this wknd n now i cant figur whts nxt???? ... and along with my horror at the disintegration of our written language comes my realization that I am now on the "other side" of the ever present generation gap...
Lizzie60 Posted June 9, 2007 Posted June 9, 2007 The type of people on LS are the type of people who have nothing else better to do on a Friday night but post on an internet website! Take that as good or bad! unless they are on a 'break' from doing something else... LOL
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