JPK Huson 1863
Brev. Brig. Gen'l
- Joined
- Feb 14, 2012
- Location
- Central Pennsylvania
First, would like to say, as above- REALLY? Christmas week chosen for snit and snark out of the blue? What is wrong with this picture? In almost 5 years I have never engaged this kind of thing but then have never been overtly attacked, either. Not once. Could be because I do not attack. It is a silly thing to do.
When this astonishing place first welcomed me years ago, it flattened me. It was intimidating Holy Gee Whiz, remember lurking to Nate and I think James N, maybe ME Wolfe, OH Bonnie Blue, a Texas discussion.... . I like Texas and realized well, at least I can spell it. These people sure have a handle on the rest..... . It's actually not a handicap, not having a huge background going in. Not as much to unlearn.
You learn a lot, if you want to and by osmosis almost too. By great good fortune CWT didn't harm themselves laughing, asking for a show of hands, would anyone like to take on responsibilities, put mine in the air. Believe me- not through ego ( you find yourself living in certain areas of the planet for a reason..... ) , it seemed fair to give back. Hence Ladies Tea where the Powers That Be assured me a certain lack of knowledge meant nothing- knowledge can be obtained, it's our women of the war, the times they lived in, their world and bringing it CWT- that is what counted. For all of them.
It's been and continues to be riveting- what we shared, North, South- all races and ages. Commonalities far outstrip agenda, then and now.
Here's something slightly hysterical. The women who lived through these times listed in their midst a fair amount of illiterates. Not only were our enslaved women forbidden reading as some form of either control or fear but white women inhabiting certain classes had no chance at school- little tough when one is working in a factory at age 5. ( Yes, that can be sourced, no worries )
But, somehow only those who hold degrees deeming them intelligent by way of gender studies are qualified to hand around these pieces of information. Hence a misogynist pitting women against each other, calling me, I guess, an idiot in a post today. This person stated he would come have a look at this forum, the implication being to vet all the threads, ( the further implication there being a man would be the final judge regardless ) in case any more " garbage " written by an idiot, a female lacking gender studies degrees, had been heinously perpetrated on an unsuspecting membership.
It always has been and always will be a position here at Ladies Tea, viewing the war through the eyes of those ladies who were there. The suggestion some hysterical, false and invented perspective on my part has been used to present any of our women is flatly silly- especially since the flip side is some earnest, khaki, well-meaning and arrogant perspective. This is also a little hysterical. We're to believe protecting and respecting females is foremost while subjecting me ( I ARE one..... ) to ridicule and snark. Interesting.
Guessing these two had a very, Merry Christmas together and many Happy Years and Years- nobody requires a specialist coming in vetting the forum to tell us all about their life together.
When this astonishing place first welcomed me years ago, it flattened me. It was intimidating Holy Gee Whiz, remember lurking to Nate and I think James N, maybe ME Wolfe, OH Bonnie Blue, a Texas discussion.... . I like Texas and realized well, at least I can spell it. These people sure have a handle on the rest..... . It's actually not a handicap, not having a huge background going in. Not as much to unlearn.
You learn a lot, if you want to and by osmosis almost too. By great good fortune CWT didn't harm themselves laughing, asking for a show of hands, would anyone like to take on responsibilities, put mine in the air. Believe me- not through ego ( you find yourself living in certain areas of the planet for a reason..... ) , it seemed fair to give back. Hence Ladies Tea where the Powers That Be assured me a certain lack of knowledge meant nothing- knowledge can be obtained, it's our women of the war, the times they lived in, their world and bringing it CWT- that is what counted. For all of them.
It's been and continues to be riveting- what we shared, North, South- all races and ages. Commonalities far outstrip agenda, then and now.
Here's something slightly hysterical. The women who lived through these times listed in their midst a fair amount of illiterates. Not only were our enslaved women forbidden reading as some form of either control or fear but white women inhabiting certain classes had no chance at school- little tough when one is working in a factory at age 5. ( Yes, that can be sourced, no worries )
But, somehow only those who hold degrees deeming them intelligent by way of gender studies are qualified to hand around these pieces of information. Hence a misogynist pitting women against each other, calling me, I guess, an idiot in a post today. This person stated he would come have a look at this forum, the implication being to vet all the threads, ( the further implication there being a man would be the final judge regardless ) in case any more " garbage " written by an idiot, a female lacking gender studies degrees, had been heinously perpetrated on an unsuspecting membership.
It always has been and always will be a position here at Ladies Tea, viewing the war through the eyes of those ladies who were there. The suggestion some hysterical, false and invented perspective on my part has been used to present any of our women is flatly silly- especially since the flip side is some earnest, khaki, well-meaning and arrogant perspective. This is also a little hysterical. We're to believe protecting and respecting females is foremost while subjecting me ( I ARE one..... ) to ridicule and snark. Interesting.
Guessing these two had a very, Merry Christmas together and many Happy Years and Years- nobody requires a specialist coming in vetting the forum to tell us all about their life together.
And I need a cheat sheet.
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