Gibbs505
SERVORUM DOMITOR
Great!! Boo Bruins!I'm not a hockey fan but...
The St. Louis Blues have just won the Stanley Cup!!!
Great!! Boo Bruins!I'm not a hockey fan but...
The St. Louis Blues have just won the Stanley Cup!!!
The retort of General Pierre Cambronne to a request to surrender:
"La Garde meurt mais ne se rend pas!" ("The Guard dies but does not surrender!")
June 18, 1815, thirteen kilometers south of Brussels, the small town of Waterloo where ended 23 years of bloody European Wars (and you thought Brexit was bad!)
Oh, please! Let's not go there.I always thought this an interesting painting ... bravery, tragedy, valor, death ... all for what? ... male egos!
Oh, please! Let's not go there.
I'm heading out now to do some sacrificial charity work - you know, to stroke my male ego. I'll reply when I return.Well, if only women were in charge ....
Have women leaders been that peaceable? Margaret Thatcher, Indira Ghandi, Golda Meir? Not so much.. Aung San Suu Kyi got the Nobel Peace Prize and then what is going in in Myanmar now?Well, if only women were in charge ....
Have women leaders been that peaceable? Margaret Thatcher, Indira Ghandi, Golda Meir? Not so much.. Aung San Suu Kyi got the Nobel Peace Prize and then what is going in in Myanmar now?
Always have to be contrary, don’t you Goldman? Blahhhhhhhh
Boudicca, Zenobia, Empress Irene, Maria Theresa, Catherine the Great...
I have little patience for attacks on “the male ego” (sorry Barb). It is a silly and counterproductive exercise to ascribe all virtue to one gender or another. (BTW virtue comes from the Latin word vir, meaning a virtual man.) I appreciate that educated and independent women like Barbara have run into their share of uncouth, boorish, and just plain rude men. But they are that way because they are uncouth boorish and rude, not because they have male egos.Alright, alright ... enough ... I get it. How about Mother Theresa?
I have little patience for attacks on “the male ego” (sorry Barb). It is a silly and counterproductive exercise to ascribe all virtue to one gender or another. (BTW virtue comes from the Latin word vir, meaning a virtual man.) I appreciate that educated and independent women like Barbara have run into their share of uncouth, boorish, and just plain rude men. But they are that way because they are uncouth boorish and rude, not because they have male egos.
To me, the male ego, especially when discussing the martial virtues referenced above, is related to a courage and willingness to sacrifice for standards and values. In the limited courage I have shown in my life, I have done so, inspired by the example of men in history.
The best example to me comes from Roman history/myth in the story of Horatius at the Bridge. The Romans had overthrown their Etrucan King Lars Porcina to establish their independence (the Romans ever after hated kings and even the most corrupt Emperor never used the title of Rex, king.) The Etruscans marched with a large army to reconquer Rome.
Publius Horatius Cocles was an officer in the army of the early Roman Republic who defended the Pons Sublicius from the invading army. By defending the narrow end of the bridge, he—along with two others—was able to hold off the attacking army long enough to allow other Romans to destroy the bridge behind him, blocking the Etruscans' advance and saving the city. Since the bridge would be destroyed behind him and he couldn’t swim (especially with heavy armor) it was a suicide mission.
Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay, wrote a set of poems called The Lays of Ancient Rome. In one he had Horatius volunteer and in so doing express what male ego should be about.
Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the gate:
“To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods.
There are things worth risking death for.
I know. But you touched a nerve and I had to spout off! Sorry.Ummmmmm ... I was just joking earlier
PrPr, you are making the same error you blame the gender-people for. There is not a thing like male or female ego. There is your ego and mine and Barbs. There are gender roles that expect a few attributes of females and males, but these are socially imprited, not biological.To me, the male ego
Sound advice. Do I get to **** her first?Btw - never take Barbs provocations seriously. Just crucify her.
Btw - never take Barbs provocations seriously. Just crucify her.
Sound advice. Do I get to **** her first?