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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 guys and dolls #15180 01/09/01 04:04 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm OP Carpal Tunnel OP tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass we've had lots of discussions in the dim, dark past regarding words for male- and female-specific activities. one such was the male version of a feminist (which came up during a 'chauvinism' thread); suggestions included malist and masculinist. so, fwiw, I submit: the worthless word for the day is: hominist someone who advocates equal rights for men coined by G.B. Shaw in the preface to "Man and Superman" (1903) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: guys and dolls #15181 01/09/01 04:08 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,289 B Bobyoungbalt veteran Bobyoungbalt veteran B Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,289 If you had not given the definition, I would have supposed it was someone who dined exclusively on hominy, or who was engaged in homiletics. Hommm..... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: guys and dolls #15182 01/09/01 04:25 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky ...dined exclusively on hominy... Ohmigawd! Ow, Bob, you're making my stomach hurt from laughing so hard! Actually, my first mental leap was picturing a rabid murderer of males only... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: guys and dolls #15183 01/09/01 05:52 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 M Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 In reply to: Actually, my first mental leap was picturing a rabid murderer of males only... cf. wife Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: guys and dolls #15184 01/09/01 06:25 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 130 Virginia S Solamente, Doug. member Solamente, Doug. member S Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 130 Virginia Sounds to me like one who studies bipeds... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter cf. wife #15185 01/09/01 06:31 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park i don't know how wives fare down under-- but statistics in US show that longevity increases for males once they marry, and decreased for females. So the longest lived populations is Never married women followed by women married less than 20 years women married more than 20 years men marrid more than 20 years men married less than 20 years unmarried men. Every day an american wife stays married after 20 years, she is giving up some of her live expectantcy to her husband.. Now maybe you Ozzie's and Zild's are kinder to your spouses... but your post doesn't indicate it. You should get down on your knees and kiss her feet this very minute!! and not just her feet, the very ground she walks upon.. and not just today-- everyday! (do it often enough, and she might be willing to forgo a year or two of life..and if you tell her you got the idea at AWAD-- she might give up the idea you're wasting time on the computer! ) The very idea! we little women work our fingers to the bone, bear your children, and you insult us! Of course men can have equality with women--once they are equal to it! all said in good spirit--but really you should kiss her feet every once in a while... my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: guys and dolls #15186 01/09/01 07:18 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Tsuwm recalls: malist and masculinist as male counterparts to feminist. Masculinist has one syllable too many. The counterpart of feminist (Note: not femininist) should be masculist. As for hominist, since the Latin homo meant, at least nominally, human being irrespective of sex, it should mean someone who advocates equal rights for human beings. This would suggest virist for the male version of feminist. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: guys and dolls #15187 01/09/01 07:50 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm OP Carpal Tunnel OP tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass >Masculinist has one syllable too many. The counterpart of feminist (Note: not femininist) should be masculist. that's as may be; but masculinist has made it into the dictionary(s) -- not as the opposite of feminist, however, but as an advocate of male *supremacy -- more like Limbaugh's feminazi, I suppose. (which is why it was rejected during our earlier discussion) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: guys and dolls #15188 01/09/01 08:08 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,289 B Bobyoungbalt veteran Bobyoungbalt veteran B Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,289 In reply to: Virist for the male version of feminist This might mean that the proper study of virists is virology, but that make problems, since we already have viruses (viri?) to complicate things. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: guys and dolls #15189 01/10/01 04:44 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta B Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta In reply to: viruses (viri?) 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