On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 06:46:37 GMT, rw
wrote:
(snipped)

We seem to be rebrobate males. I can't explain it. My guess is that
women flyfishers are too mature and sophisticated to put up with all the
crap.

Could be. Maybe it's because I was brought up in a era when male
chauvinists were not just accepted, but expected to be the norm. And,
had the term male chauvinist been around, no one would have added the
word pigs to it. Not that this group exactly qualifies as MCPs. I
think most of you have outgrown most of it if you ever tended to it.
Or I am so inured to it that it doesn't get to me.

A few years ago one of the younger women I know ranted on for a long
time about how the guy running the paintball business handed her a
pistol and said, "Lock and load, little lady." I cannot imagine me
taking umbrage at that. I regarded that as some sort of (terms cut
out here) attitude with feminist chauvinist tendencies. I'd played
paintball there a several times a few years earlier. The owners were
farmers and it was rural Wisconsin. Not exactly a place where they'd
have catered to delicate female sensibilities of the modern big city
woman.

Cyli
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