Reply #88: By golly you did! Seems to me there's a LOT to be said for your

[calimary]

hypothesis.

The domineering father versus the nurturing mother. Interesting how the symbology in the art world tends to depict the male in straight, angular, harsh-lined configurations. The female, on the other hand, is round, curvy and undulating.

Deco versus Nouveau.

I think that has a LOT to do with it.

And absolutely I think that this absolutist shit on the part of the hard, dictatorial, punishing, "I don't do nuance" conservatives and regressives suggests that they grew up in a MOST oppressive atmosphere. Even an abusive one. Spare the rod and spoil the child, after all. Wait til your father gets home (when the Day of Reckoning is nigh and you get what's coming to you). It's traditioally the mother who says that, and the father who follows up accordingly. A template is born.

A precedent, if you will.

Leading us to this president, pardon the pun.

I think we just thunk up something significant, reprobate!

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