tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post4426566067846276544..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: The Girls Are Not AlrightStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-46002558887870698142019-11-10T19:39:36.697-08:002019-11-10T19:39:36.697-08:00Yep. I'm with the "I don't have a sma...Yep. I'm with the "I don't have a smart phone" crowd. More people should consider the consequences of being available to anyone, any time of the day. (One odd consequence is, because THEY are on it all day and night, they assume all other adults are, as well....which means an ADULT population which can no longer fathom that people are not addicted, as they are, as in the first comment. Wow.) Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-5412212206459616402019-08-19T05:34:50.822-07:002019-08-19T05:34:50.822-07:00All women and young girls had to do were do what t...All women and young girls had to do were do what they asked men and young boys to do. Men and young boys neede to remember that women and young girls were our mothers, daughters, sisters, et al. For the most part, men and young boys did try to thing of women and young girls as an important part of our lives against some of being portrayed as toxic. Unfortunately, women and young girls never paid any attention to the other side of the equation. Men and young boys were their fathers, husbands, sons, et al. Point in fact that the condemned men and young boys to the point where men and young boys no longer cared about women and young girls and started to separate themselves in a significant number of ways.<br />They made their own special HELL by not remembering that respect and all of the other kindnesses go both ways. It is hard to feel sorrow for someone who believes you are the enemy. Men and young boys rightly have no reason to care. At what point are women going to recognize their own responsibility in building a wall between what is the most important relationship that human being is a part. I hesitate to extrapolate the growing problems that will befall the human race and especially women and young girls. The pendulum always swings back the other way no matter how one attempts to impede its progress.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-75528727036223353962019-08-18T14:38:17.031-07:002019-08-18T14:38:17.031-07:00whitney, you must be severely minused!
"Ign...whitney, you must be severely minused!<br /><br /><br />"Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCD said...<br /> No doubt Government needs to DO SOMETHING!" No, no, NO! Don't give them any ideas! On your own head be it (as long as it is attached...)!Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-53230496282552715442019-08-18T07:26:04.068-07:002019-08-18T07:26:04.068-07:00“Get action; do things; be sane; don't fritter...“Get action; do things; be sane; don't fritter away your time; create; act; take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.”<br />(Theodore Roosevelt)<br /><br />Good advice here,methinks.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-48927221130182876202019-08-18T06:31:51.631-07:002019-08-18T06:31:51.631-07:00No doubt Government needs to DO SOMETHING!No doubt Government needs to DO SOMETHING!Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-39365765110156062462019-08-18T06:30:06.119-07:002019-08-18T06:30:06.119-07:00I am struck by how America is plagued by so many a...I am struck by how America is plagued by so many angry victims. All they want is MORE and they want it NOW. It’s getting tiresome.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-7637646899909293702019-08-17T16:07:44.502-07:002019-08-17T16:07:44.502-07:00I'm betting "pull to refresh" brings...I'm betting "pull to refresh" brings up a "new" set of ads and eyeballs revenue. If so, clever! In my intro stats class, I used to show images of a board above a casino roulette wheel as a perfect training machine for the Gambler's Fallacy. It's fascinating how cheaply a money machine can be built.trigger warninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06310637474428322994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-32007467341707353542019-08-17T15:45:37.101-07:002019-08-17T15:45:37.101-07:00I have a flip phone. It's usually OFF.I have a flip phone. It's usually OFF.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-1697507712047419762019-08-17T12:54:27.021-07:002019-08-17T12:54:27.021-07:00It’s been very well documented that all the leadin...It’s been very well documented that all the leading players of the Silicon Valley hegemony either curtail severely - or sometimes even forbid completely - the use of social media by their own children, for fear of its deleterious effects on them. Loren Brichter, who designed the ‘pull to refresh’ function on a noted social media platform, designed it to mimic the handle function on a slot machine. Addiction was built in to the design deliberately. It’s hard for the young people of today to fight against such malice aforethought. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-55485208900964416312019-08-17T11:46:17.128-07:002019-08-17T11:46:17.128-07:00Reply to Anonymous's comment, "portable w...Reply to Anonymous's comment, <i>"portable wireless communication greatly reduces the sense of *here and now* .... I have actually seen a person stop midway going through a door to stare at their cell phone"</i>:<br /><br />I've seen worse; i.e., I've watched a twenty-something woman cross 9th Avenue in NYC into the path of a huge, speeding SUV that had just run a red light, while she blithely stared at her cell phone ignoring my repeated screams to "Look out!". Fortunately for her, she snapped out of her daze when I changed my scream to "STOP!", halting just a split second before (and only 3 inches from where) she would have been killed instantly.<br /><br />To a certain demographic, 'tis more important to have a reputation for snappy text messaging than to live.JPL17https://www.blogger.com/profile/10649330420822802850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-51676863570111772972019-08-17T09:08:02.066-07:002019-08-17T09:08:02.066-07:00The "Industrial Revolution of girl power"...The "Industrial Revolution of girl power".<br /><br />:-Dtrigger warninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06310637474428322994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-70733077099567515622019-08-17T08:56:18.411-07:002019-08-17T08:56:18.411-07:00When the telegraph was first invented, a journalis...When the telegraph was first invented, a journalist marveled: "With this invention, there is no ELSEWHERE...it is all here."<br /><br />If wired communication greatly reduced the sense of *elsewhere*, it seems that portable wireless communication greatly reduces the sense of *here and now*.<br /><br />I have actually seen a person stop midway going through a door to stare at their cell phone.<br /><br />David FosterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-23216416538288079862019-08-17T08:50:54.853-07:002019-08-17T08:50:54.853-07:00I am completely nonplussed by that response. I don...I am completely nonplussed by that response. I don't even know how that's possiblewhitneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01339343160301118530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-24616913819228915612019-08-17T07:42:14.770-07:002019-08-17T07:42:14.770-07:00When my wife and I go to dinner, I order for my wi...When my wife and I go to dinner, I order for my wife, myself, and then for each of my phones (corporate and personal). I sometimes ask if the restaurant has a ‘phone menu’. It’s best done with a straight face and with a waiter who gets the gag and writes down my order. If it goes right, Bob Newhart would be proud. I’m ashamed, but it’s not my fault. I have an illness and am actively seeking therapy—to not feel shame, not to leave the phones at home.<br /><br />Those girls are doomed. The solution is so far removed from anything in their field of vision that I cannot see how any of them can arrive at normal life. Good luck, I’m too old and selfish to care, and I have no obligations by being related. UbuMaccabeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00237833458790876775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-63837138354842199502019-08-17T07:08:59.500-07:002019-08-17T07:08:59.500-07:00I don't have a cellphone... solves the problem...I don't have a cellphone... solves the problem.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-4797399389762553662019-08-17T07:02:17.282-07:002019-08-17T07:02:17.282-07:00How many adults can put down their phones? I'm...How many adults can put down their phones? I'm online every day even on days when I tell myself no. How about you?whitneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01339343160301118530noreply@blogger.com