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@ProfDThere's still a sizable number of women working on factory assembly lines. Depends on what's being manufactured. And manual labor has become obsolete. BTW, my Rosie the Riviter remark was in response to the gnat flitting around.

The masons, of course, date back to the Egyptian pyamid builders. The Pan Hellenic organizations were inspired by the Phi Beta Kappa honor society which was inspired by the ancient Greek sages. At this stage in my life, I really have no great interest in burning sands trivia. Mostly all of my pledge sisters have passed on and my interests lie elsewhere.

@ Frankster:I feel a kinship with this woman! Life is a mind boggling proposition. And the best goes on...

Man take chances all the time via one nightstands. And nobody is expecting anything of men except for them to co exist with those who embrace gender rather than genitals. Live and let live. Nobody can be "turned into" something they dont already have preexisting tendencies for. Not surprising that you know nothing about the "Rosie the Riverter" women who during WW2 replaced men in factory jobs that required them to be familiar with the production and maintenance of machinery.

Shannon should've honored the fine line between rough sex and sexual abuse. He is not a gentleman.

There won't be any backbreaking labor. It'll all be handled by machines and robots.

"Exactly," yelped the dog chasing his tail.

@ProfDplus the fact you don't have to be macho or even a man to utilize the computerized technical support necessary to organize and coordinate a response to a disaster!

I think this parody of Buddhism is really about the effectiveness of choosing silence as a response to the sound and fury of an idiot...

Blah,blah,blah, - more blather from Piognat, that well known authority on nothing. I'll take Mel's explanation about the sorority/boule alliance ANY DAY over that of a second rate, self important wanna-be who, himself, is not a Greek, nor a college graduate, who is nothing more than a garrulous blow hard warehouse peon with a god complex who thinks he's infallible and that his half-baked opinions are the gospel truth. But his transparency becomes more evident by the day as he struggles to be relevent @TroyAnd he's certainly not one of a kind! He's just another example of the anxiom about "a little bit of learning being a dangerous thing"; a fool who knows not, and knows not that he knows not. Pitiful.

LOL It probably wouldn't be the first time a woman didn't have her expectations fulfilled in the bedroom.

@TroyOf course I know what "crossing the burning sands" means. And you're right. It's simple enough to figure out, but I'm not keen to discuss the secret rituals of Greek organizations on a public forum. I also refuse to allow Piognat to draw me into a conversation where he "controls the narrative". All of this subterfuge he's clouding the issue with has nothing to do with the original dispute about him using the wrong adjective when referring to the soap opera "Beyond the Gates". But his modus operandi is to change the focus and go all off on irrelevant tangents when he can't win an argument. And his failed attempt to "school me" by babbling a lot of drivel was a glaring example of him not knowing what the hell he's talking about inasmuch as his whole premise was based on his WRONG ASSUMPTION about what I "seemed to think". The only legitimate contribution Piognat could've made in his attempt to enlighten, was to point out that I spelled W.E.B. DuBois' name wrong. But he's too ignorant to know that D-u-B-o-s-e was the wrong spelling.

From what I have observed, men seem more threatened by the LGBQT movement than women are. The move Maher made in the final moments on his last show was to forcefully declare that if you're born with a dick, you're a MAN! Big deal. Women don't seem to really care about female trannies except when it comes to sports and toilets. They even appreciate how stylish and glamourous some of these he/shes can be. Men, however, are so convinced that having a penis is a privilege, they think anybody born with one should be too proud to get rid of it and should, instead, take great pride in this groin ornament they regard as an object to be envied. Women would more likely laugh upon discovering the buffed,well-groomed person they were cuddling with was wearing a tampon. Men, on the other hand, would go berserk upon realizing their long-lashed, wig-wearing bedmate hadn't been castrated yet.

@Delano. Hi guy. We haven't conversed in a while. I'm still dangling in the limbo of my paranormal void. This thing called Life continues to mystify me. Gotta birthday coming up in August. Wonder if I'll make it or will I be - set free. Not only do I sense your serenity but I admire it.

In my ongoing quest for abbreviated wisdom, I'm sometimes reminded of how golden silence is...

Finally got around to reading the above BS, having previously exercised my will power to resist the temptation to get the last word in the dialog between me and what's-his- name. But, curiosity got the best of me. Which is more than I can say for Piognat's tantrum. Maneuvering through this turd exhibit did, however, bring about a realization. What I was beholding was the portrait of a desperate, ego-consumed, arrogant, hysterical fool doing one of the few things he does best;regurgitating specious arguments full of irrelevance and lies. In his pathetic, deranged attempt to do damage control, Piognat succeeded only in exposing how mentally unbalanced he is. I don't feel the need to respond to any of his befuddled cherry-picked claims and accusations, knowing that I will simply be providing a crutch for this crippled strawman.

Or, as the unnamed people you mentioned,Maher could just consider himself not to be a racist and publicly declare that he isn't. I'm sure that Maher thinks it's implicit in his liberal stance that he is not racist. Black critics expect a lot from white people when blacks, themselves, can't even rid themselves of colorism. Bill Maher is not perfect but he tries to be fair by criticizing the Woke folk progressives as well as the MAGA maggot conservatives. I'll take him over a black Retrumpican any day.

@ProfDWhat does Bill Maher have to do to PROVE he's not racist as a white male in a country founded by white men? Is there any white person you can point to who has proven he's not racist and is willing to - turn this country over to Blacks even if they're not united, cuz y'all loooove America so much. As to whether my dislike for Muslim/Arabs extends to their women, I've never developed a liking for them because they're just female versions of their menfolk only they wear wear things on their heads and aren't promised well-hung males after they kill infidels and go to heaven.

Did Nostradamus make any predictions.

The response to this demonstration seems to be generally favorable. The cackling hens on The View approved it. So there's that...

Maybe not in practice because they can rarely enforce it, but in spirit I believe black people are racist. They have no problem disliking and disparaging white people and devote a lot of time to doing so. And, as MLK implied in his "dislike for the unlike" phraseology, everybody is xenophobic inasmuch as Humans are instinctively suspicious of strangers. I also think there's such as thing as "benign" racism. This can be exemplified with a simple roll of the eyes gesture by a black person exhibiting tolerarance or amusement with the foibles of a stupid white people. White people who condescendingly claim to be "color blind" are benign racists because they think they're doing you a favor by ignoring the "blemish" of black skin. To me, Farrakhan is a blatant racist. He just out and out hates white people in general and Jews in particular. I don't think Bill Maher is a racist because he can afford to not be one I personally don't like Muslims. I find them grim, rigid, sneaky and of course misogynistic. And the Koran tells them to kill anyone one who doesn't worship Allah. Even promises that 40 virgins await any male who does this, when he arrives in heaven.

@Pioneer1As usual you invoke your straw man retorts by contradicting what i didn't say. What I did say was, "bougie" is simply pop culture slang. And I did not deny that the boule had a connection with the DuBose talented tenth. What I further pointed out was that just because you are a Greek or belong to the boule doesn't mean you are automatically wealthy so the connection between boule and the well-off family on the Beyond the Gates soap opera wasn't a "given" as you implied. Furthermore, Sororities are members of the Divine Nine so they do have an affiliation with the boule, something you denied. Moreover in 1951, my first year at the University of Illinois, I resided in the Alpha Kappa Alpha (Gamma Chapter) sorority house, and I and the girls in my pledge group remained bonded and friends all of our lives. And, incidentally, I can tell you that there was no worship of Greek gods there as you falsely claimed. Finally, my father and brother were both members of the Jeptha Lodge chapter of Prince Hall Masons. And my mother was an Easter Star Worthy Matron of Dorcas Chapter, #92. So stfu. You didn't school me on nothing. All you did was emit a lot of superfluous hot-air like the wind bag that you are.

HoHum. And the slippery eeI rides again. I don't agree with your convoluted subtefuge. The slang term "bougie" is what it is:Pop culture lingo. The sociological concept of the Black Bourgeoise dates back to 1903 and W.E.B. Dubose's Talented Tenth concept and has nothing to do with all the Marxist ideology you cited. Connecting the boule to the Beyond the Gates soap opera is a stretch. Attending boule has no direct connection to being wealthy because you don't have to be rich to become a member of a fraternity or sorority. And why didn't you make all your claims in the first place instead spouting a lot of the "useless information" about some 1990s movement?? Why? Because you didn't know what I wasl talking about till you looked it up.

Oooooh, puleeze. "Bougie" is short for Bourgeoise", which is the French word for Middleclass. Blacks adopted this shortened term around the late 1970s when they began to graduate colleges and enter professions and own fine homes and fancy cars. Nowadays, it has a somewhat negative connotation, referring to extremely materialistic black folks living high on the hog.

Because, like I said, "Beyond The Gates " is a show case for the "bougie" lifestyle not the "boule", which is how you labeled it in your disparaging post. Do YOU know what "bougie" means and what its origin is?Dummy.