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Dresden vs everyone in the Genre
Sandor Clegane:
Ignores last 17 posts... ::)
Rob Thurman is a pretty good read. I didn't like Caliban as he was in the first book, he just didn't impress me, but that is okay because it was still a great read. I liked him more in Moonshine anyway.
Oh and Glen Cook's Black Company Series, very intersting characters, very gray morals, very real and gritty characters and scenes. Yep The Black Company rules. How are his other series?
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Lizard King on October 24, 2007, 01:16:58 AM ---Now that HAS to be something we can all agree on! C'mon!
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Not only do I disagree, I find it pernicious and harmful to believe so. It too easily becomes an excuse for not making the effort to communicate better, at very least, and often worse things than that.
Men are from Earth; women are from Earth; cope.
Lizard King:
--- Quote from: neurovore on October 24, 2007, 02:38:58 PM ---Not only do I disagree, I find it pernicious and harmful to believe so. It too easily becomes an excuse for not making the effort to communicate better, at very least, and often worse things than that.
Men are from Earth; women are from Earth; cope.
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We are totally off topic, but are you serious??? Recognizing the differences in how men and women think and percieve is the most effective way to promote effective communications and healthy relationships. Pretending that men and women think identically, and that we are simply clones with different genitals and glands is junvile and mislead. Those physical differences promote different chemical reactions which effect the way we think and react.
Recognize that we are different, and that in that difference we compliement each other, and we are all better for it.
And to pull it back on topic, as Lightsabre has put forth, those differences are real. Women and Men see the world differently, as a whole. And our creations will illustrate those differences. I don't know how you can realisitically argue that point.
Shecky:
--- Quote from: neurovore on October 24, 2007, 02:38:58 PM ---Not only do I disagree, I find it pernicious and harmful to believe so. It too easily becomes an excuse for not making the effort to communicate better, at very least, and often worse things than that.
Men are from Earth; women are from Earth; cope.
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There are significant biochemical differences in the processes of men's brains and women's brains in general (as always, there are individual exceptions and degrees of difference, but on the whole, there's a sizeable functional variation between the two). In other words, in general, men and women DO think differently. The effort to communicate better has to take that into consideration and accommodate it, not attempt to ignore those differences arbitrarily. We ARE different. Equal, just not the same. It's a biological fact. The only way that should affect our actions is by taking it into account, accepting it and WORKING with it. We have to UNDERSTAND that the other gender undergoes different biological processes in thinking in order for the genders to BEGIN to understand each other. That's the whole point - understanding and dealing with the Other. This applies not only to gender differences but to individuals as well; Joe just ain't gonna think exactly the same way as Bill. Our job is to cope with those differences by accepting them and moving past them anyway. Sweeping those glaring neurochemical differences under a rug of PC will NOT nullify them.
DragonFire:
--- Quote from: neurovore on October 24, 2007, 02:38:58 PM ---Not only do I disagree, I find it pernicious and harmful to believe so. It too easily becomes an excuse for not making the effort to communicate better, at very least, and often worse things than that.
Men are from Earth; women are from Earth; cope.
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What does this have to do with communication?
As the others have said, Men and Women do think differently.
IT's a biological fact.
Cope.
Sweeping it all into a 'we're all exactly the same' cupboard is not just hazardous to communication, it's hazardous to development of humankind in general.
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