Fashion Board 11-2-03 - 12-09-03

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
and if you do, you miss three days of billing and don't meet your quota.

But on the other hand, if you do go, you get to prance around in your underwear and have pillow fights with each other.

Trade offs

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
There are just as many men out there who think they have married a maid/cook/washwoman/nanny/sex slave as there are women who think their husband should foot the bill for everything.

Probably true, I just happen to know fewer of them so it pisses me off less immediately.

They should all find and marry each other, and there would surely be less suffering in the world. Any woman who expects a man to support her should be willing accept with good grace the demand "where's my dinner, and why haven't you cleaned up all these toys this place looks like a sty?"

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
That's, of course, a broad characature, . . .

All true, but still, I don't think we're allowed to call them broads anymore.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
But on the other hand, if you do go, you get to prance around in your underwear and have pillow fights with each other.

Trade offs

But since we are not men dressing up as women in Ralph Macchio (I can't spell today) movies, we don't get off on this so it's still not a winner.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
This is all bullshit anyway.

Concur 100%. Women's retreats, women's luncheons, women's caucuses, women's issues committees, all time-wasting bullshit, and divisive to boot. Um, ladies, the previous generation fought really hard to get us into the existing groups along with the men, where we're usually pretty welcome now, so ....

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by bilmore
However, in the interest of accuracy (see, it's never too late to change), please consider the chicken, and its byproducts. (Yes, next time you read ingredients and see "beef byproducts", remember that manure is a beef byproduct.)

Doh! I clearly need to hang with a smarter IM/PM clique. Of course, the others in said clique are no doubt saying the same thing about me. I'd better brush up so as not to get dumped again.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by mmm3587
[extended rant about women getting favorable treatment in the workplace]

Quit whining. You wanna be a woman in the work force? Cut your goddamned paycheck by 20% for no reason, get fired when you object to some assgrabbing decrepit partners' heavy breathing, then become an unemployable troublemaker when you complain. Jesus.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
I do feel sorry for the men, because, given the increased social and economic power women have these days, the men tend to get fucked. Not true 30 years ago, maybe, but from what I see it is pretty damn true now. If a married man says "you know what, no, I don't accept these assumptions" they get trounced socially for being a bad provider for wife and family - which women just don't face if they suddenly cry "I have more meaningful things to do with my life than work!" If a woman stops keeping up her end of the "bargain" (keeping herself up to present adequate arm-candy, slacking of on her sex/affection duties, etc.) and men complain, they are guilty of objectifying their women (who frankly often objectified themselves by accepting that role). If men try to dump a whore like a whore, they are malfeasors, usually pecuniarily punished, and the bimbo they take up with is a home-wrecker, rather than being admitted to simply be better at the job.

That's, of course, a broad characature, but there's a hell of a lot more truth to it than there should be. The incredible sapping of will and self-respect I've seen in a lot of "family men" in this business just depresses me. Too many guys end up seeing themselves as cash cows supporting women and children and a lifestyle they don't particularly get to enjoy. And they are fucking trapped, slaves to the expectations of their families (and, in all honesty, of themselves, though the results when they wake up try to get out of it are often catastrophic).

BR(Sidd, never fear, you will always get to hear me complain about my job)C

You are definitely not a woman in real life. Sorry, dude, you have been outed.

You could start posting every post in pink fonts and end every sentence with an exclamation point and a smiley face and I still would not believe that you are a woman in real life.

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by mmm3587
Does this mean that I can take an expired gift certificate to a chain store with me the next time I go to Cali ...

Where is that?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Not Me
You are definitely not a woman in real life.

Concur. From what I know, her life isn't even close to "real".

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by bilmore
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Originally posted by paigowprincess
I am sorry but My Poll is very serious and if you are gonna post offpoint on it, change the re line. I am still trying to pick mine. I have like seven in mind at the moement. Three genres.
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#2: Snobby posts;

How dreadfully banal of you. Take it to the Prole Board.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Any woman who expects a man to support her should be willing accept with good grace the demand "where's my dinner, and why haven't you cleaned up all these toys this place looks like a sty?"

Not only is it now clear that you a dude, it is now clear that you are a dude with a small penis.

Not (to the tune of Aerosmith's "Dude Looks Like A Lady") Me.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
The number of people who have PM'd me to say "thanks" for responding to Sebby as I did, and as I've done before, would suggest otherwise.

Since Sebby thanked you himself, it's not clear what that proves.

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
The number of people who have PM'd me to say "thanks" for responding to Sebby as I did, and as I've done before, would suggest otherwise.

This is among the types of posts that are most nauseating - the appeal to the unverifiable private message system as vindication for something. Almost as bad as the "I'm hot in real life." The fact that Paigow uses both a lot proves my point. Q.E.D.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
If most women out there are like that, I am surprised more of you guys don't date female lawyers.

NO! No, nononononononono.

Obviously a different point than the one you were raising, BRC, and no offence intended to the Ladies of the FB, but it has been my observation that one lawyer per couple (either the man or the woman) is plenty, and perhaps too much, at that.

Though we often dress, speak, and look fabulous, and carry a party with our charms, typically, we lawyers are obsessive, idiosyncratic, not people persons, overly opinionated, etc. (oh, and apparently self-loathing.) From what I've seen and heard, mixing two of this kind is rarely a recipe for successful relationships.

But that's just me. I am, of course, willing to be persuaded otherwise through the vast anecdotal evidence culled from this board. Any takers?