What. Traitor!
I have it on good authority that one of the most popular threads in the womenās forum is a discussion of which Forumosans they would rather āscrew, shoot, or marry.ā
Iām a cynic by nature so it doesnāt take much to convince me that Iāve been had and the whole civil rights thing is just self-serving bullshit. Too bad. There goes my last shred of faith in humanity.
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If the existence of a womenās only forum as part of a larger forum for ex-pats living in Taiwan is what makes you lose your ālast shred of faith in humanityā you probably didnāt have much to begin with.
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Iāve got some bad news for you, sunshine.
Youāve been had and the whole civil rights thing was just self-serving bullshit. Too bad. There goes your last shred of faith in humanity.
Oh yeah.
Greedo shot first.
Enjoy your evening.
I fairly frequently think about things that I desire but donāt have, and that often leads to thinking about people who have things that I desire but donāt have. And that thought in turn sometimes produces animosity in me.
But with one exception, I donāt think I usually really want to take the other personās stuff. Itās more like just an āIāll have what theyāre havingā kind of thing, but with a certain amount of bitterness mixed in.
(The one exception is that when I hear, see, or read about sums of money in the eight-to-twelve-figure range (in U. S. dollars), I sometimes wish there were a way for someone to legitimately peel off a little fraction of that for me (say, just two or three hundred thousand, but even just one hundred thousand would be quite acceptable).)
However, I can honestly say that, to the best of my knowledge, Iāve never wished there were a spare womenās forum lying around for me to take possession of. And I certainly donāt recall ever wanting to take somebody elseās womenās forum away. (And while Iām at it, Iām pretty confident in saying that Iāve never wished that anyone would peel off a small part of a womenās forum for me.)
I canāt account for that lack in me. I guess itās at least partly due to my being such an oddball.
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I donāt think or at least for myself that I want to take away or join the womenās forum.
I think my original question I think that returned everyone here was if the majority of us are men, why is there a women only forum. I posed the question knowing basically why but I just wanted to see how others felt as well.
Because a menās only forum here and menās only club are often criticized. Boy Scouts for example and other male only members clubs like golf courses. Maybe us men also deserve some thought and have a menās only section. Maybe I want share all the good brothels on äøå±±åč·Æ without @tando judging me 
or just a variety of menās issues.
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I hope your GF doesnāt read this forum.
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I know this guy named Bernie. I think you guys would really hit it off. 
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Ummmmm it was before I met you babe, if youāre reading this
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Oh, that wasnāt a dig at you, Andrew, but I guess I was trying to figure out what this is about. I mean, I guess Iām mostly made out of the same stuff other people are, and I sometimes become resentful about people who have things that I donāt have.
And I get the reverse discrimination argument. I do.
In 1976 I briefly worked for a beer distributorājust manual labor, in the warehouse and accompanying the salesman on his route. We went to places that were kind of unusual, even for Louisiana 
. Like, at least one time, we delivered some beer to the leprosarium at Carville (we saw a bunch of guys shooting pool and cracking jokes and saying things like, ā'Bout damn time you got hereā). Another time, everybody, black and white, in a certain cypress-wood general store spoke French, but the store certainly wasnāt in Acadiana; Iām pretty sure it was near the Mississippi border.
Still another time, a bar we went to had a āWhiteā side and a āColoredā side (thatās how the signs read). Now, this was about twelve years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, so of course it struck me as quite odd. I used to wonder sometimes about that bar, but recently, during the revival of the Womenās Forum thread, a somewhat fantastical hypothesis about it has sort of half-formed in my headāone that I dare not express for fear of being scolded (for those of you who always have Occamās Razor within easy reach, the fantastical hypothesis is not about white folks not wanting to drink with black folks).
If itās the Bernie* whoās been in the news for the past couple of years, I donāt think that would be a very productive meeting. You see, Iām a registered Republican, and although I may well fit in the RINO category, I aināt that far RINO. But for a while in my teens, Iām pretty sure Bernie would have been to the right of me.
*If itās some other Bernie, belay the above.
This is probably true of most teenagers, ha. Itās the older Bernie supporters you have to worry about.
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Donāt worry. I wouldnāt get in threads that Iām not interested in.
I deserve that. I feel like the guy in one of those prison movies whoās been resisting joining a gang until one day the light goes on when he realizes even the warden is in a gang. There is no middle anymore. Rowland has been right all along. Itās every tribe for itself and take no prisoners. First move is Iām going to register to vote for the first time in years.
Is that a shred of hope weāre seeing here? 
If eight years of Trump is your definition of hopeful then I suppose so. I know my hunting and fishing buddies in the U.S. are going to be pleased that Iām not going to sit out the next election.
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We should all worship and/or be sacrified to Cthulhu? 
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