Diki�..do you think at this point you�re possibly just throwing �stuff� against the wall until something sticks?�

You�re manipulating what I said to suit your needs for rebuttal. Read it again, please. I said �I don�t know of any women around here that aren�t in music just for the money or for vanity reasons.� I also said I live in an area that praises riches and looks down their nose at mediocrity. So what would be the obvious conclusion you would come to from those two statements?

Now I really don�t care to make a judgment call about if women were suppressed in the days of the great Classical composers. The bottom line is what I said: �there were few great KNOWN female composers to compete on the playing field with Beethoven or Chopin or even Scott Joplin. This is the way it is. I mean the facts are right in front of you, yet you still won�t admit to what I�m saying. Forget about whether or not they were suppressed, oppressed or DEpressed. In speculation, maybe they WERE better at composing and just didn�t get the chance to do it. We�ll never know that. What we do know is that they DIDN�T compose, while they�re male counterparts DID. And, hence, got the exposure.

Lucky says: �"There is no such thing as a �sexist� remark. There are only �remarks� made that are then LABELED by whoever hears it."

Diki says: ...this is absurd.

Lucky says: No, Diki it�s NOT absurd. It�s only absurd if you THINK it is absurd!

Diki says: Does that mean I can insult the hell out of you, but what I write ISN'T insulting, until you label it so...?

Lucky says: yes, that�s exactly correct! You can only insult me, if I deem it to be an insult! That�s not to say I won�t recognize insulting intentions, but I choose whether or not I want to interpret it as a degrading slur and react to it. I have free will to make that call.

Diki says: I don't think so An insult is an insult from the moment it is written, and a sexist remark doesn't need someone else to call it that for it to be one...

Diki�where do you get your �insult� information from? I suggest you study Metaphysics or Spirituality or �power of the mind� books in general.

If someone says broccoli tastes �awful,� does that make it �awful?�
If someone says graffiti sprayed on a subway train is �vulgar,� does that make it �vulgar?�
If someone makes a remark about the lack of women composers, does that make it a sexist remark?

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and so is most everything else in the world. Nothing is beautiful or ugly, or tasteful or tasteless, or easy or hard, etc. It�s all in how you, the individual views an object, a situation...OR...a remark!

Lucky