tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1021441068012948210.post797074697796118268..comments2023-07-20T06:10:55.949-06:00Comments on Tales of a Super Nova: Sometimes I try to Believe.Stellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05630323371719995793noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1021441068012948210.post-41135636559738516362011-05-25T10:23:45.564-06:002011-05-25T10:23:45.564-06:00JMH--I think we all have naturally salacious impul...JMH--I think we all have naturally salacious impulses, though some women feel it unwomanly to have those and so, oftentimes, pretend that they are not there. But I do believe evolution has come far enough that some level of control could be expected. But maybe I expect too much from the human race in general. I know my high school students think I do.<br /><br />I go back and forth about my ego. For so many years I felt it wasn't right to accept acknowledgement (though I sought after it, and when I received it, I demurely brushed it off). I feel like it didn't get the room it needed and now I'm sort of trying to see what life would be like if I embraced it more. I don't think I'm explaining this right, but I'll think about it some more and try to articulate it for you soon.Stellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05630323371719995793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1021441068012948210.post-43259398051082224772011-05-23T22:04:52.593-06:002011-05-23T22:04:52.593-06:00I don't feel particularly compelled to defend ...I don't feel particularly compelled to defend men. By and large I don't like them because they're sort of loud and crude and awful. But men are like that. We like to stare. We're wired with a powerful visual pleasure trigger.<br /><br />What I've had to recognize is that that natural salacious impulse can be controlled, its aggressiveness harnessed and directed in ideally a creative manner, but at the very least in a socially appropriate one.<br /><br />As for the ego, though, if you can learn something from a person, man or woman, go ahead and learn something, you know? Learning is sexy. I can certainly be proud and stubborn and easily wounded at times, but mostly I try to let the ego go. It's going to cause me more pain than pleasure.JMHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10374530528745577289noreply@blogger.com