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[Theron Bugtussle]

Thulorongil: all we really are doing is the exact same thing that we are saying is unfair: treating people a certain way because they are labeled something.

I missed the part where life has to be fair. It certainly wasn't fair in M-E. Wishing away unfairness will not work. You were much more on target with your earlier post about taking the lemons (labeling) and turn them into lemonade. [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]

Finwe: My parents did a very funny thing after we all went to go see Return of the King.

Psst, Finwe! They did that because they love you...and because you are an obsessed freak! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] (Just kidding.)

---> IN GENERAL <---

One may object to stereotyping, labeling, put-downs, etc. One can even refuse to engage in the activities as payback to those who mistreat or mis-label or any-label them. That, however, will not keep others from labeling you. Get used to it.

I, for one, am intrigued by Lush's term 'vapid' and hereby label everyone else on this thread as VAPID. There is a label that will never die in my book!

And Lush, you are right, in that The Intelligent go for looks--if they can get them. And, speaking totally hypothetically, if I was interested in you, I would be looking at your bookshelf, and if I didn't find the right stuff there, I would quickly drop you as VAPID. (Regardless of my opinion of your good looks.)