Male and Female Imponderables--Delicate Sound of Thunder
POSTED BY: Tristan
UPDATED: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 15:41
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Still gotta catch up with the tread.
SirFrancis - to answer your question. I would have loved to go to an all girl school
...oh wait. I have to be the same gender eh? well there goes that idea!
Kelkhil
The Shirtless Forsaken
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Originally posted by ChrisMoorhead:
ZEEK - I never claimed to have already accomplished control. Sure enough, I'm as far away from it as anyone else, and if you've read a number of my other posts from other threads, I admit my temper to be my weakest point. Maybe you should point that high powered perception back at yourself if you get off on pointing people's faults out to them?
See this is a problem for getting along with people. You get all defensive. Learn to laugh and joke around. Not that I was kidding. You can also just take constructive criticism sometimes.
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Originally posted by msg:
So PONDER: Would you have prefered to go to a single gender( i.e. all girl's school or all boy's schools)school or if you've been do you think it helped you academically? and as a corollary, do you think you learn better from teachers of the same gender?
Oh heck yeah I would have liked to go to an all girl's school. It would be like being a kid in a candy store (just watched this week's How I Met Your Mother). I suppose you mean I'd have to go to an all boy's school though. In which case NO I wouldn't want to do that. I don't see that helping me academically at all. What it would do is stunt my social growth. How is a person supposed to learn to interact with the opposite sex if they're totally segregated from them? Also I don't think it matters about a teacher's gender. Teaching style is much more important than gender.
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Hmm.... personally, I'd hate to go to an all guys school. I could launch into a whole spiel about it, but I doubt this surprises you guys who've heard my previous spiels. As for teachers, I'm just plain more comfortable around women, though that's not to say I've never had good male teachers. I have, it's just that, say on the first day, I'm slightly more apprehensive about the males. Does that seem right to you?
I'm so sad, i'm not going to be teh homecoming king! NOOOOOOOO!!!! Meh, i guess i'll just have to come to terms with the fact that... most of the people I know arent seniors. Oh well. /shrug.
Maybe someday I'll figure out what homecoming actually is. Huh.
edit: To what Zeek said, yeah, of course teaching style is really important too.
"But, these strong women characters?"
"Why aren't you asking 100 other guys why they don't write strong women characters?" -Joss Whedon.
"We take all the money we got saved right now, we could maybe buy a moderately sized gerbil." -Mal
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heya all, i know this thread is REALLY long, and so a new one will be created soon...so not really expecting anyone to actually read this, but hey.
referring back to the very earlier issues, while i don't have a lot to say about the meds stuff, seeing as i never had to go through that, (while i spend most of my childhood sick and in hospital, it was mainly cause my damn lungs kept being bastards and not working)
i do however have soemthing to input about the whole discipline/violence thing.
while i wouldn't say i was 'beaten' as a child (not really having a way to define that), i was physically punished A LOT when i was a kid.
both my parents had really bad tempers, and they exploded on me and my older brother all the time. my dad would 'beat' the crap out of us with a big black leather belt, and once he threw me into a door so hard the glass window in it broke and covered me in glass.
my mum would just completly lose it and come after us- just hit us where-ever on our bodies with her hands or whatever was around (if you've ever had a thick, solid wooden spoon broken across the back of your legs, you'd know what i'm talkin' about)...she would turn her rings around so the settings on them would hurt us.
it wasn't all the time, but often enough that it left a lasting impression...i agree with (i think) PR, who said that this kinda stuff only leads to bitterness(?)
i hate my parents, and have ever since i can remember. theres other stuff as well, but the 'discipline' they used certainly is a major factor in my loathing for them.
(in later years they both found religion, and so resorted to 'bible-bashing' us instead...in some ways it's worse. 
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while kids need discipline in their lives, to give them straucture and rules, i definatly vote for non-violent methods. they can be effective, if used properly, well and consistently.
anyway, just my two cents...
oh, and as for the all girl school thing...i would have had an even worse time in school if i didn't have my guy friends to hang out with! they at least embraced the fact that they were total geeks (my kind of people) unlike the girls who, even though they were TOTAL geeks, still tried to 'fit in' with the cool kids.
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If Cavemen and Astronauts had a fight....
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zeek- so do you think Marhsall will take Lilly back? I do because he truly loves her and she made a mistake and hurt him and herself, but I think she's really sorry and really wants to fix it...btw I love how they've left Ted and Robyn the way they are and not made them psycho lovey or something...and Barney is the devil!!
I choose to rise instead of fall- U2
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ok I will start a new thread
Hang on
Here's our new home
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=24285
I choose to rise instead of fall- U2
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Originally posted by SirFrancis:
P.S. the Sir Francis comes from the role I am playing currently in "Charley's Aunt".
....ahhh! "Where the nuts come from!!"
(sorry I couldn't resist!) Thank you again - you said something I was kind of trying to get at, but didn't coz I ramble quite a bit...
ShinyKitten *hugs* - I am so sorry that this has been your experience - and that your parents turned their 'religion' into a weapon as well... this saddens me so much! I have had a ruler broken over my backside so I understand a little - just a little and they're memories nobody should have to live with...
Well it's after 1.30am here (there too SK!) and I am off to bed! Good night fellow imponderers!
love you all - Magda x x x
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