I may be well meaing and want to serve a deserving woman. But, if I feel worthless, and I present myself as worthless, I would attract only women who want to deal with wortless humans. So, going too far with the wortless feeling is worthless, as such.

I am truly committed to serve my wife, but it is from a position of power and self esteem. I want to be worthy of her, and do my best. I know my worth, and I don’t give it away to just any female.

I do respect females, and I most certainly love them. I would be honored to serve them. However, I am also discriminating in my selection. There is no universal rule. As much as I love and respect females, I still need to evaluate them on an individual basis. This is why I don’t buy into “female supremacy”.

OK, that’s a fair cop about the “capture and release” bit. It was a case of a nascent smart-alec remark running away with all memory of what was actually written in the passage it was responding to. I could try to justify myself by commenting on how many animals escape from secure reserves and that something akin to animal rights activists (I was going to say “do me rights” but that just sounded needy and perverse) might try to free them back into the wild but that would be a self deception on my part in an attempt to preserve the fig leaf of my intellectual integrity. So I shan’t and will merely say that my typing finers ran away from my good sense in search of a wisecrack. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa etc.

I’m not sure whether normal service will ever be resumed at my school, as the are being subsumed into one of the new Academies complete with a new emperor’s-new-clothes curriculum. As the whole validation issue is something I feel strongly about and that pushing such a topic is in keeping with what the men in suits say is the new ethos of the Academy, I’m hopeful I should be able to slip it in somewhere. Where, and more appositely, when is still a matter of conjecture. Ho hum…

I’m surprised you weren’t trying to be funny. I thought the fake “Don’t Buy This!” ads were great satire.

Thank you Ms Madison, I did enjoy doing the “Don’t Buy This!” ad.   :)

I didn’t mean I   wasn’t trying to be funny, more that, I wasn’t overtly trying to write a “funny” post, if you understand the difference?

For example, this is a good example of a post which I deliberately intended to be “a funny post”, even if also detailed, accurate, and complete. And I think that post is quite a lot funnier than this one, even though this one has funny moments in it.

I was also thinking, “Wow, it is so awesome that she is able to think about bad behavior with such healthy detachment, and with a sense of humor, instead of becoming angry and discouraged like me.”

Hahaha, oh dear, indeed, detachment, lol, oh no, not a lot of that going on round here, hehehe. I’m almost sorry to disappoint you! I can’t tell you how much I’d adore to be all superiour and detached and tell you from my high horse how some certain sensible outlook is the answer to everything!

Oh well, maybe in a future life.   :p

I wrote this as a description rather than a “rant” (even though I do in fact feel quite ranty about the whole thing), because I felt that lots of those had already been done on this topic ad infinitum.

Having said that, I have been spending quite a bit of time considering what lay behind all this behaviour, and having found what I think are at least a few of the answers, I do think I’m a tiny bit more detached than I was before. However, I still do feel angry and discouraged, and often think the best thing for all concerned would be to admit defeat, blow up the whole planet, and start over.

But then, sometimes I think it might just be possible to work with what we’ve got, and maybe, just maybe, I get just the teensiest smidgen of hope.

But then it goes away, and I eat a biscuit.

I’m sorry this wasn’t as fun to write as it was to read. I am selfishly looking forward to the next installments.

I don’t think they ever are as fun to write as they are to read, I mean, I often have quite a bit of fun reading over my posts ages after I’ve finished them, and that’s always more fun than writing them.   :)

Your “selfish” looking-forward-ness provides me with encouragement that my next posts have an audience waiting to read them, so what’s “selfish” about that? You get upcoming posts, I get an audience, step right up, everybody’s a winner.   :D

Thank you for being such a validatey commenty audient. I have had much enjoyment from your contributions. Do please carry on, I will if you will!   :D

Lubyanka.   :)

I was also thinking, “Wow, it is so awesome that she is able to think about bad behavior with such healthy detachment, and with a sense of humor, instead of becoming angry and discouraged like me.”

I’m sorry this wasn’t as fun to write as it was to read. I am selfishly looking forward to the next installments.

The “do me” types and the “worthless worms” are part of all our make ups, I think. I’d say also that most of us grow past these essentially childish behaviour types when our ages need more than a single digit to be written down.

I do think those elements are part of a lot of people, but I do not think that we were all born with them. Certainly it is perfectly appropriate for children to be self-centric and self-interested, and because of that I wouldn’t really associate my description of do me!!! with children.

I don’t really think of this behaviour as “childish”, because not all children exhibit this behaviour, not all of this behaviour is appropriate to children, and some of it is quite commonplace in many adults, at least some of the time. So I tend to think of it as “child-like”, because of the nuances of being unsophisticated, guileless, naive, ingenuous. In my experience, almost every do me!!! practitioner is utterly unaware of what he’s doing and why, and is not capable of understanding his behaviour even if it’s explained to him.

If they were more aware and less child-like, I think they’d have to manipulate to get what they want, and I think I already described why I don’t think do me!!! practitioners are manipulators.

I’m not certain, but I doubt the capture and release thing would work. Would not they return so that they could be tagged all over again, in the vain hope that getting enough tags would induce you into “doing” them?

I guess you missed the part where I said:

The do me!!! practitioners can be caught, tagged, and safely released into appropriate habitats within purpose-built reserves for their conservation and management.

I always thought “reserve” in the context of wildlife, always included the meaning of “protected”. Perhaps I wasn’t clear that “purpose built reserves” means “behind big fences and a gate with lots of locks on it”? Perhaps I should have called it an enclosure?

Ok, that’s a good point, lemme just make that clear for a sec:

Purpose-Built Reserve:   A place to keep do me!!! practitioners safely behind huge fences and a big gate with lots of locks and alarms and security and stuff. Do me!!! practitioners tagged and released into the enclosure are not normally allowed back into the wild.

(except maybe on a one-day-release scheme or something like that)

There, is that better?   ;)

Still it was a lovely image as was the running away and hiding elmer-fudd-like from the “ww”s.

Thank you.   :)   I did enjoy working out those spellings.   :)

Those validation lessons I mentioned have had to be put back

Oh NOES!!! No more fantasies for Lubyanka 101 being a mandatory part of every curriculum in the known universe!! Oh the pain, the suffering, the ennui.   ;)

(kvetch says “awww”)

Do let me know when my regularly scheduled fantasising may resume its normal programming, won’t you?

It’s a shame you’re blogged out for now but I’m looking forward to more.

P.S. Those validation lessons I mentioned have had to be put back- we’re getting the inspectors in and management are getting jittery. As is always the case, anything remotely innovative gets axed in such circumstances.

I remember feeling pleased with my cleverness when I did the section that described them as if they were wildlife, and I also enjoyed creating the Worthless Worm advertising campaign. But I didn’t feel the posts themselves were “funny”, as such. They certainly didn’t feel funny to write.

But they must have been funny because you’re the second person to think so.   :)

Maybe they’re funny because they resonate as true? I find a lot of funniness is because of just articulating obvious things that somehow never got around to being said.

Or maybe I’m just a bloggy comedy genius?

Yes, that’s it, I think like that answer best.   :D

Thank you for your yummy comment.   :)

Thank you.   :)