Posted by dorayme on 10/25/07 23:12

In article <Xns99D4703E3FD4nanopandaneredbojias@85.214.62.108>,
Neredbojias:

> GMT dorayme scribed:
>
> > Look I *am* in a very bad mood, it *is* true. I don't appreciate
> > anyone *asterisking* his way in put-downs of or lecturing of me
> > or making snide remarks about me in another thread. It is really
> > simple. If he was polite, he would get it back in the same
> > coinage.
>
> I understand and sympathize, but does your mood dictate the very nature
> and character of your responses

Unfortunately, yes! We martians have feelings, we are not like
you robot earthlings. We are live throbbing dreamers.
>
> > I am sorry, but that is how I feel. I have generally kept away
> > from all this crap but when I am called out, I come out. Gary
> > Cooper, Charles Bronson, John Wayne, Annie (of Annie Get your
> > Gun) and Kirk Douglas all did the same before me. Why should a
> > Martian be left out of a line up like this?
>
> Notice that all those people are dead.

Not such bad company then. A friend had a theory about me the
other day that *does* explain rather a lot of things. My blood
pressure has dropped and I have been unusually tired and it was
suggested that maybe I had died.

> > Look, this crap seems to me to be as offensive to any decent
> > fellers as to any women. You are simply not getting it are you?
> > You are ignorant about your own manly history, mate. Go and see
> > some American westerns. You will see plenty of examples of good
> > American male role models there. In fact, mostly, the male heroes
> > are touchingly impressive in their respect for females. You are
> > following the wrong models.
>

> If you are suggesting that the "character" in the films be the role-
> model, that's almost as bad because they're static and trite

Static and trite! It saddens me to hear you say this. There was
nothing trite about

* James McKay (Gregory Peck) in Big Country
* Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda) in My Darling Clementine

and the list is very long, perhaps ending in

* Will Penny (Charlton Heston) in Will Penny

The last is perhaps a touch trite (but then Charlton Heston
always has been a bit wooden). The thing you miss is that a basic
decency was seared into the American film makers imaginations by
the best that was in their nation. Whereas you and that other
sexist pig seem to take your cue from the lowest in the culture.

Having difficulty understanding any of this? Do say, I am always
happy to expand on anything. <g>

--
dorayme

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