Reply #62: Diversionary grooming

[TPaine7]

I said:

Doesn't understand the story of Oedipus. (He didn't have a problem with old women.)

Those of us who understand English know that women is a plural noun--it signifies more than one woman. In context I was talking about old women in general.


Iverglas said:

And you think Oedipus had warm fuzzy feelings about mummy when he learned he had married and fathered children with her.

Of course, it was Electra that I performed in, in high school. So obviously I know nothing about Oedipus.

Let me see if I can make this simple enough. Having problems with a particular woman is different from having problems with all old women. Just as if I were to dislike an obnoxious, dishonest, vicious (yet self-pitying) bully of a woman online it would say nothing about my feelings about women in general. Hypothetically.


iverglas:

Er ... scusi ... but you seemed to be talking about an identifed old woman:

The whole thing reminds me of a story about an old woman who complained that her perverted neighbor kept flashing her. The responding officer asked her to show where the offense took place. "See" the old woman said, "he walks around in his bathroom in the nude. It's disgusting." "But you can't see his window from here," he responded. "You can if you stand on this stool" she sniffed.


whom you obviously hold in contempt. Of course, if you can't identify the old woman in question, you were just using "old woman" as a personification of various nasty traits. Wanna say which option it is?

I see there is a female victimization reality distortion field too. I've said much harsher things about men, many men. I suppose I used them as "personification of various nasty traits" showing that I (and not iverglas, of course, LOL) hate men. It's a joke. I told the joke like I heard it. It fit. I've told jokes about men, too.

Whichever, I'm not sure what it has to do with me. Are you saying that I am the old woman in the story? I would certainly hope not. I'd have to be demanding a retraction and reporting your post for being a vicious lie about a DU member, if that were the case. So, assuming it is not the case, why would you think I was confusing myself with anyone?

Now iverglas knows very well she is not the old woman in the story. I know nothing, and care less, about her relationships with male neighbors. With all of her "education" she should be ashamed to pretend to miss the parallel. Let's see if I can make this simple enough. First iverglas read my OP, read my posts and followed my links. None of these--to sane people at least--have anything to do with her personally. After seeking out this material, she went further and found more material on her own initiative. She then presented it, along with a complaint about having to read it.

Heartbreaking, isn't it? And honest. :sarcasm:

It reminded me of a joke. I told the joke. If I had thought about it, I could just as well have told the story of the right wing anti-homosexual crusader (from Colorado Springs if memory serves). He raged against homosexuality in the pulpit and kept a gay lover (or was it a prostitute?) in his private life.

Had I used him as an example, only fool would have taken it as hatred of gays or of men.

Your post oozed contempt for old women, and obviously for women in general. Nothing to do with me at all, right?

Yawn. Is anyone still fooled?

Oh there's a woman I despise, alright. Exactly one. It has nothing to do with any other women.

The contempt the story was intended to indicate, however, was contempt for whining hypocrisy. I tend to look askance at people who whine about being subjected to offensive materials, even as they are eagerly seeking them out. Not old women (in general), not gays (in general), not men (in general). Just whining hypocrites. In general.

It's interesting that iverglas linked to a post of hers on diversionary tactics. This entire discussion is a diversion from the points in the post she's supposedly answering. And virtually everything she said in the linked thread was to divert attention from that OP. You see, iverglas is professor emeritus of diversionary grooming in the school of bovine scatology.

Oh, and for the really slow, the ability to post pictures of roller coasters proves that iverglas is a vibrant young thing like my ability to post pictures of the moon proves that I am an astronaut. Not that it really matters.