It was such a simple request, and asked so long ago.

But thank you for finally manning-up.

I won't say much, because I think that the prisoner analogy is apt. There is nothing in restricting one's freedom that makes them pliant and unwilling to resist. Removing choice only negates the demonstration that they resist, not the resistance itself. And, of course, it renders the claim that they have a choice in that regard meaningless.

So I still insist that girls are not inherently pliant and easily swayed from the lessons of useful experience. It is you who argue that shiny object easily lure the child into contradicting the possibly useful lessons of her parents which may have been reinforced by her own agreement with them and her own experience. ( https://www.annabelleigh.net/messages/601467.htm )

I leave it to others to see whose vision of girls best fits the "defective blob of protoplasm who can't think" accusation.

Please be so kind in the future as to keep the convo returning to what was said in this way. You can reinterpret or characterize me to your heart's content. But if you believe that these interpretations are warranted by anything I've said, have the decency to cite the "offending" remark.

I won't play the game of defending your caricature of me. But I will engage your interpretation of me and my motives if you'll return to what was actually said. And I will continue to cite you as the best source on you, even where we disagree.

Dante