Agreed.
I am a knowledgeable and educated person who can write (mostly) grammatically correct sentences and use big words. I am (I think) better than a mediocre poet, and I handle technical and factual writing well. Conversational writing is a facet of the English language that I have never had much luck with, or well, conversational speaking in general.
You should see how many hours it takes me to write a cover letter for a resume because of this. I think that a contributing factor to this is that my background is science and more specifically engineering. Emphasis was put upon expression of fact, doing it quickly, and getting to the point. I can understand how I’d be perceived as an educated asshole, but am not sure that at this point in life I can do anything about it.
It’s a rather large catch-22 on the ‘warm funny caring side of catsix.’ I like people to know it exists, but grew up in an enviornment where it was highly discouraged to show anything to anyone that could be considered a weakness.
About my friend, thank you. He is a very important person in my life and watching him suffer knowing I cannot fix it like I can fix a broken piece of electronics is hard to deal with.
If they ask for the opinions of everyone reading, I give mine, and then am told my opinion is wrong, I get a bit ticked off. When someone tells me that my perception of my own life is wrong, same idea.
In mine it has been the case that the seven people who have kids abuse the ‘time off for kids’ policy. Does that mean people in other offices are exactly the same as in mine?
If you’re complaining about me being such a bitch, why do you use deliberately bitchy condescending names like ‘Babycakes’?
Well when someone tells you that they’re going to see their kid’s baseball practice and then lounge by their pool for the afternoon, it’s pretty obvious their kid ain’t sick. (I’m looking at one coworker in particular for that comment) Or if they tell you they’re staying home because the kid had a snow-day from school and the announcements on the radio for school closings don’t include that school, it’s pretty obvious that they’re lying.
So uh, how bout get that work done before going, or come in early the next day and do it, or stay late the next day and do it instead of sticking it in my mailbox as if I’ll do it when in reality all I’m gonna do is put it, unifinished, back into their own mailbox?
I think one of the reasons that the numbers Brownmiller publishes might be wrong is that in many instances (like date rape), to the person reporting it, it’s not a false report, but in some cases a crime wasn’t actually comitted.
