Women – not as evil as I hitherto suspected
Posted January 20, 2006 
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Comments(6) I find it amusing that because I have strong opinions, and generally believe them to be correct, that some people assume I never change my mind, that I am too stubborn to re-evaluate my decisions. This is not the case. It is because I wish to be right that I must constantly re-evaluate, check my premises, and think things through again. If they are still correct, great. But if not, obviously I need to acknowledge they are wrong, and change them. So a new category of entry appears. “Change of opinion
[...] Posted due to inspiration by diane’s Women – not as evil as I hitherto suspected post: Just send a copy of this letter to five of your friends who are equally tired and discontented. Then bundle up your wife or girlfriend and send her to the man whose name appears at the top of this list, and add your name to the bottom. [...]
I am reminded of a very amusing spoof chain-email i once received, which i’ve put up here: http://blogs.nonado.net/diamond/2006/01/20/my-favourite-spoof-chain-email/
You know it could all be just due to the people you knew at school being teenagers. Its been proven on brain scans that the area of the brain involved in social skills actually gets really physically messed up during the teenage years. The social skills that a person has when they are about 12 actually get lost and don’t get recovered until the age of about 18. If it didn’t happen to everybody as part of a natural process it would probably be otherwise considered brain-damage!
Just to credit sources: the source of the above info was new scientist magazine, issue unknown, but it was a couple of years ago! :-)
Course I could have a bad memory too…
You make a valid point Bruce, except for one thing. I didn’t do it to them. So obviously there is an element of choice there, regardless of immaturity, because I certainly wasn’t mature or socially skilled at the time. Or perhaps it was simply lack of opportunity on my part, maybe they had the confidence to be assholes and I didn’t. Maybe they just had other assholes to reinforce them and I didn’t.
Ah Diane – don’t be so hard on the female species (although I’m not often a fan). There are some relatively “normal” ones out there.