swimmerXC you mean? haha :roll:
What happened to these forum members????
- Thread starter bd popeye
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Hi Popeye and Co, I have not desserted you just been very busy and find that your true naval background and vast knowledge leaves me drowning with what seem like stupid questions or input. Having said that I have found the saga of the Varyag very interesting and educational.
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Glad you are back!...You can ask me all the basic Naval questions you want. I will have an answer or get it for you!
Ender Wiggin
Junior Member
Anyone know where Ender Wiggin is, I can't seemt o find him.
Hi Popeye and Golly, I am still here just been very busy. I think SimmerXc is busy in college nowadays, we had talked about virginia tech or some colleges years ago
.Sorry Sampan, I am too busy right now(has been working sixteen hours a day), so didn't participant in your Sino economy as I had promised.
Heyy Mr Lee!
Next time your passing just drop by and visit, Pijou on the fridge
Its changed a bit since you saw it
Next time your passing just drop by and visit, Pijou on the fridge
Its changed a bit since you saw it
Oh good! I even checked his web site yesterday on the off-chance that there was something there saying what he'd been up to. Lookin' forward to Jeff's return!
Raptoreyes
New Member
At the risk of turning this into an anthropology discussion I'll venture this generalization that seems to hold up very well in practice.
"Men will punch you in the face but women will stab you in the back"--- said by a female anthropologist on the history channel whose name I have no chance of remembering
Females tend to be much more dependent upon the emotional support of the social groups that they identify with. Therefore open conflict is not often an issue with them. Instead females within peer groups will feud and feud and feud some more, quietly with stealth. If you want to know more about female peer groups, I would recommend reading Queen Bees and Wannabes as a resource on how females approach "conflict management" also known as rendering yourself "one up" and your opponents "one down".
I think that most females tend to wonder just how crazy males are too so publicly announce their enmities with others and then make demands submission of the other side instead of stabbing them in the back, should it become necessary. Female conflict management tends to be bisected in the two parts without any intermediate stages. By this I mean that females will often go from attempting to socially ostracize or put down those that they are opposed to via wheedling indirection. However once these little petty feuds go on long enough and neither side is enabled to decisively embarrass the other... That's when we start seeing assassination being used and other forms of "conflict resolution" that provide the maximum chance dispatch an opponent while providing the minimum chance that you'll be injured in the process. In part this may be due to the fact that the females run the risk of having their reproductive organs damaged, and unlike males nature does not consider females to be expendable, thus there are certain biochemical biases against overt acts of violence from females.
Men tend to emphasize the tools of warfare just as this forum does, where-as female emphasis tends to be on social structure. This lack of concern with the tools of warfare on the part of many females may be in part due the fact that females were often only employed strictly as auxiliary to the production process of complex machines before modern times. Even at the present day, it's very very difficult for college recruiters and administrators to get girls into the hard sciences, despite all the many extra inducements available for those that do.
Then there is the old bone of contention that one need not work hard and make sacrifices when you can have someone else do it for you. Male Brains tend to be biochemically biased toward hyperactivity while female brains tend to have just the exact opposite wiring, and are more likely to experience depression or a loss in desire to take action. Many young pretty and intelligent females look around at the adults are about to come and notice those that are actually producing things are not as wealthy or glamorous as those who are getting other people to produce things on their behalf.
If you want more females in this forum than open up a forum about diplomacy/espionage and you might get a few. This forum tends to talk more about tool use in many ways than the type of conflict that females like to talk about. Unfortunately a forum about conflicts that females would be more interested in participating in would also be a forum that the trolls could more easily infiltrate. The very fact that the mods here tend to keep things very tightly focused on the original topic tends to be a turnoff to many females who have more shall we call them freeform discussions that work their way across different topics.
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