Comments | paulhope: Mood swings.

paulhope

Mood swings.

May 11, 2005 22:57

In the past few hours I had a couple of very strong emotions. The first was this inexplicable feeling that my life was revving up to something exciting and awesome. Then this got totally neutralized by the realization that my life is totally academic in every sense of the word.* ("Realization" isn't the right word. It's more like it arose like ( Read more... )

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theshowmustgo0n May 13 2005, 02:52:27 UTC

Wow. Grim little 8-point deffinition of YOU there.
But...::pat pat on your back::... I know how you feeeel, and you're TOTALLY right about everything! Yes, keep on a-whining.
Or maybe you should pursue some ass. Just not in that objectifying women/using them as sex toys kind of way. Nothing more satisfying in life than committing yourself to a woman and raising a family. In fact, you're one of the Christian-est guys I know who's not really a Christian. ::curls into protective fetal position::

DISCLAIMER paulhope May 15 2005, 04:47:24 UTC

Just for the public record, I dealt with this post in person, mostly.

I'm really still kind of shocked reading it though. Like... I can't even talk about it. The last three sentences are kind of non-sequitors, but that just has the affect of making all sorts of terrifying assumptions: that the only alternative to a "bad" relationship is one that involves getting a wife and kids. That getting a wife and kids is necessarily a Christian thing (and that's a loaded word in this context...).

Wife and kids will happen, at the earliest, in my thirties. And pursuing the wife and family future is completely different from "pursuing some ass."

Ugh. Christian? Is there something you could have said that was more emasculating? I don't think you understand me very well on the subjects of either religion or sexuality, unless you have a very strange usage of the word. Which, from what I know, is very likely.

Anyway, Nothing more satisfying in life than committing yourself to a woman and raising a family. Yuck. I am 20. Life still ( ... )

Oh, Seb... ggrrr... theshowmustgo0n May 15 2005, 19:22:55 UTC

It seems you've yet again taken me too serously. I was, of course, parodying myself and my Christian-Feminist (Feminist-Christian?) ideals. I wish you hadn't jammed into my statements the suggestion that the only alternative to womanizing play is a Christian marriage, that non-Christians womanize and Christians don't, that marriage is necessarily a Christian thing. ::sigh::
But...what about me calling you a "Christian" is demasculating? I think you make some sorry assumptions here. "Yuck!" to you, sir.

Re: Oh, Seb... ggrrr... paulhope May 15 2005, 20:32:29 UTC

Self-parody? Why didn't you say so when we talked about it earlier? That makes everything make sense. Otherwise, I had to connect absurd dots!

Roughly:
Christian (in this context of Christian domesticity) =>
Subservience to restrictive moral law =>
Inability to act on (testosterone-fired/masculine) aggressive and sexual impulses =>
Inability to manifest male-ness =>
emasculated.