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142 comments on The geopolitics of oil gains a new constituency

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geewiz on July 19, 2006 - 10:03pm

Because it's Thread-a-licous! Couldn't help myself there, been dying to say that!

I too have noticed there are not many Female contibutors here, perhaps they are browsing TOD. Nonetheless, would like to hear their inputs.

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MicroHydro on July 20, 2006 - 1:13am

The lack of an IGNORE function at TOD is one of the problems. It is bad enough that one of the more prolific male posters on TOD has an adolescent sexual obsession, requiring scrolling past his many juvenile posts to get to the worthwhile content. Best to leave gender out of the TOD discussion. There are plenty of gender based threads at www.peakoil.com, especially in the "Hall of Flames" folder. Anyone who needs to wax bawdy, brag about their anatomy and performance, or fight the war between the sexes should go there. Hey, you can even flirt with the moderator "smallpoxgirl", she invites it.

Back to the issues of fossil fuel depletion please.

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Dave Cohen on July 20, 2006 - 1:30am

IGNORE THIS COMMENT

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Oil CEO on July 20, 2006 - 2:26am

Roger That.

IGNORE THIS COMMENT.

I have respected your contributions, MicroHydro. I support your right to free speech. I also support adolescent sexual obsession. I'm only going to try to balance the two for myself and by myself.

We are a different community here. And for the record - we are the most advanced fossil fuel depletion site on the planet - bar none.

We got that way by being inclusive, not exclusive. Hell, we even let smekhovo say what he wants.

Come again. Or rather, visit us again soon.

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Don Sailorman on July 20, 2006 - 9:04am

I apologize for the nasty things I said about you.

Let us please bury the hatchet.

I think you are a good person.

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roy on July 21, 2006 - 10:34am

Dare I say that for me the first three responses to MicroHydro have firmly established her point. Ha Ha we are funny! -- Dave, Oil Ceo, Don Sailorman. Yeah you are like so funny.

I also wish for an ignore or hide function.

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Oil CEO on July 22, 2006 - 4:14am

Yeah. Actually, I'll buy that,roy. No shit. You got it. I wish you would stick around. And post more. I'll back you. You can count on that. If you think my backing is bullshit,look more into it. I can only give this as evidence. I thought Guns'n'Roses, Nirvana, and Jane's Addiction were gonna be winners. All my friends not only thought I was wrong but felt those bands sucked. I have never made a choice. They went into all sorts of businesses. I went into predicting how society would look at itself. I'm number two in the world. Jack is number 1.

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TN Granny on July 20, 2006 - 7:43am

Women's status is not ENTIRELY dependant on carbon inputs but rather has more to do with centuries-old cultural attitudes which are commonly shared among US, European and Middle-Eastern cultures. It is only in this century that the US and Europe have managed to shake this male-centric attitude. A better model for our post-carbon culture might be the Cherokee culture. This cultural model was not unique to the Cherokees but was a fairly common social organization among the Eastern Woodland Indians.

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tstreet on July 20, 2006 - 10:25am

The fundies are turning back the clock. In fundie world, women are clearly inferior and intended to be subservient. This is a growing part of our population since the fundies have a lot more children per family than the rest of the population. On an oil/energy related matter, these right wing groups are/will be the big consumers of oil, especially because they need to buy their Suburbans to cart those big families around. Women subservience equals more children equals more consumption equals a crummy world for the rest of us. Plus, God wouldn't let our planet go down the tube due to oil shortages or global warming so the circle is complete. Fundies, both in the U.S. and in the Islamic world are a threat to the planet.

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step back on July 20, 2006 - 12:46pm

fundies are turning back the clock

There is no clock.
When a baby is born, he or she is not aware of a "clock".
He/she comes out, gets smacked on the behind (not always) and begins to be programmed by his/her parents and society.

FF's or Fundie Folk as you call them, did not have free will in choosing to become who they are. They were born. They were programmed. Same for their parents.

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orchid on July 20, 2006 - 1:56pm

I agree. I am afraid of the leadership of Christian and Islamic fundamentalist groups both here and in Iran. It seems that both have decided that they need to "help God" bring on the apocalypse.

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