lol, the Thread for Men Only is redundant. Thread for Women still makes sense though. They need somewhere to go to share recipes and such. It makes me happy to know that their husbands are so kind as to allow them a computer in the kitchen. They must be so grateful.
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Did you seriously take what I wrote as a serious response? I was being sarcastic. The point was being silly. Men think with their penis…if hormones alter our brain activity, and these in turn are produced in our genital region, then there is some truth to the literal interpretation of the assertion. If men think with their penis, is it just as inteligible that women think with their vaginas? Women think, just as men, in predictible variants.
And women are known for their restraint? I realize that people love to stereotype but they are just illusions based on bias and not seeing the whole picture. I think that restraint is an individual thing. And for those who do have the capacity to practice at least some restraint, or whose names are Restraint, if you get me, it’s usually based on necessity and willpower. Do you really think that women have a monopoly on that?
My coming in here is not based on a lack of restraint. It’s based on personal freedom and not seeing societal bs. ILP is a little society after all. There’s a thread for women only. Feel free to hop over there if you have something to say. Unimportant rules are made to be broken and for me it’s also about observing the spirit of the law, if not the letter of the law.
Oh and by the way, I like cake.
I created the recipes thread, and I’m a dude!
Aren’t most great chefs men? Damn, that might just be a sexist remark. I hate to do that.
Maybe, but in my experience, the best cooks are women.
ah, so the spirit of “this thread is for men only” involves allowing women to post in here, i see. i don’t understand, but i guess i’m just not in tune with spirits and such.
How many women have you known, Pav? 
I didn’t say ‘spirits’. 
Now don’t tell me that you actually believe in them!!! When the spirit within me blows, it allows me to listen and go where it sends me, reasonably speaking that is. It’s a much higher power than silly societal rules. At one point in my life, I wanted to go back and visit the place, [size=50]an orphanage,[/size] where I grew up. When I got there, it wasn’t one anymore (it was being unused) and all the doors were locked - I couldn’t get in. So I checked all of the windows, and lo and behold there was only one, on the ground floor that was left unlocked and open. One might even argue that it was left open for me, if one understands how mysterious the universe at times works. Or one could simply reason that it was an accident, a mistake. So, my thought was that I wasn’t going to be kept out, after all, I grew up there, and I had a right to see it again. (okay so perhaps really subjective thinking here). Nevertheless, I climbed through that window and proceeded to have a lovely reunion, hoping all of the time that there wasn’t a dog there, but basically animals love me anyway. But I had enough self-confidence to figure I could handle that too - you might call it stupidity. That is the spirit that I am speaking about, though I did ‘trespass’ when it said ‘no trespassing’. I think that some rules are meant to be broken, espcially when one isn’t harming another person, nor themself. Sometimes the spirit within is wiser than we are on a conscious level and moves us to do things. What came about from going back there, walking through each and every room, and remembering my life, was the beginning of a whole lot of healing for me. It flowed through me as I walked that journey. And it was a journey!!
I think it was Eckhart, if I am not mistaken, who said something about returning to the place where we’ve come from and seeing it for the first time (I really paraphrased that). I did that and one might say that that is a good definition for healing, or the beginning of it anyway.
Okay and now perhaps is a good time for me to get out of this thread. I don’t feel the spirit moving so much 
If you would like to respond to this, well then, just put your money where your mouth is, in a matter of speaking, and give a holler at the woman’s thread, and I’ll be there. I’ll watch for you, if not, adios.
Don’t get too close to that edge, Humpty.
Women, they’re quite something, aren’t they?
Jack Nicholson, in As Good As It Gets, puts it best:
A woman approaches Jack, a fan of his writing (he’s plays a novelist in the movie), and she asks, “How do you write women so well?”
He responds, “I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.”
How apt.
In what sense?
Wanna play, Humpty? 
Reason and logic is not a man’s game, but a game for the smart, and not all men are smarter than some women…
Indeed, some women are smarter than some men. Good job. =D>
Why thanks, I like to state the obvious
Pav,
Oh stop it, Pav. We both know you weren’t embarrased by that. Now, if you were not married, I might perhaps just be asking you that question in the ‘biblical’ sense 
for a particularly important reason, but you are so I am not. Aside from that, I prefer not to know. 
I simply meant that in order for you to say in my experience, the best cooks are women, you would have to know all women or at least most women, No and they would have had to cook for you? So, again, I’ll ask the question, how many women have you known, Pav, that have actually cooked wonderful meals for you, subjectively speaking? Don’t pay any attention to me. But answer the question, please.
I understand the question now. The fundamental mistake that you are making here is to assume that I would have had to have all or most women cook for me in order to be able to make that subjective judgment. In actuality, for me to make the judgment as I had stated, “Based on experience,” only requires that I have had both women as well as men cook for me.
You know something, “Men cook for me,” sounds a little awkward, so let’s just say that I ate stuff that men cooked!
In any case, I love to cook and you know how competitive men can be, so on many occasions that I would cook something for a group of my friends, there would usually be a few of my male friends who have endeavored to outdo me. In the meantime, including relatives, friends, girlfriends, one wife, and friends’ relatives, I would imagine that I have eaten of the cooking of no less than one-hundred women. Ultimately, on a 1-10 scale, I would guess that women score a mean average of about 1.5 points better.
The key is the qualifier, “In my experience,” given the qualifier I could have tasted of the cooking of two women and two men only and still be qualified to make the subjective judgment with (internal) accuracy.
What is this, the He-Man Woman Haters Club?
Who let you out of the kitchen?
I get it! You’re making a joke about how I’m a woman and my place is in the kitchen cooking for my man, right?
Bitch, please. This is 2010, not 1950. I bought the kitchen, the cook works for me.
This is why you gotta hit 'em.