I was on the Starcraft 2 beta site as I am a beta tester for the game and yes I think it’s coming along steadily. There often are off topic posts on web forums and found one about a guy who was spouting off some sexist comments. There was a debate about the psychological differences between men and women and I wanted to get in my take. Of course before I could get my say in Blizzard or the original poster deleted the topic. Which, in my view was the right thing to do as it seemed inappropriate for that forum anyway. Here is my post, that didn’t get published:

“I have to disagree with the statement that men and women are very different. I believe there are more similarities then differences. Both men and women share skills, abilities, and qualities. Both fall in love, can be kind, compassionate, angry, violent, etc…

You may not agree, but as I see it, men and women are not much different.

As far as talking about psychology goes, it is important to point out that most of this science is theoretical. Meaning, that there are very few proven facts in psychology. Yes it is based on research, experimentation, and other scientific processes. But, the human mind is not as simple as say mathematics. There are so many different views in psychology and some are more supported then others. Just remember that even theories like evolution, though I do believe in its validity, is just a theory. It’s not proven science but well supported science theory. That is not to say that evolution is not true, it’s just not 100% verified.

If you focus on what makes women and men different you may over-look the similarities and naturally you would believe there are more differences then similarities.”

I do love to talk philosophy and science so I am a bit disappointed that the topic was deleted. I will say as a disclaimer that the author of the deleted topic was probably doing it as a joke. I doubt his authenticity. I mean, who uses a video game forum to spout options about non-video game subjects?

Where’s Mario Mario when you need him? (Yes I’m talking about Super Mario Bros and yes his last name is Mario. What kind of parents name their kid Mario Mario? I mean Luigi Mario sounds ok, but seriously the poor guy has lived in the shadows of his brother and he has to share the same last name Mario?)

Opps, went off on a tangent there. Anyway, it seems that my family has had to hire a plumber because my brother forgot he wasn’t one! Well, ok that’s harsh. Anyway, we knew we were going to have to replace two faucets in the garage that connect to the water heater and the washing machine. They are very rusty. And my brother was trying to take one off so we new what size to get to replace the rusty faucets and in the process broke it so we are sitting right now with no water. On top of that I was waiting to go pick up something for my air filter. Now I have to wait for the plumber to get here.

I’m hungry, yes, I would like to eat something but I want water. I might have some apple juice still somewhere, now that I think of it. Maybe I should go look. If the water is off though, I can’t cook anything having to do with water obviously. Maybe there’s still some frozen food in the freezer that I could have. Hold on a moment I’m going to check.

Isn’t this just a fantastic rambling post! Yes I do apologize that I don’t post enough on this here blog, but I have not really thought of anything interesting to say on any one subject for a while. In fact, I get so busy with other activities that I forget my website exists! So, here is a fun random post and I’ll work on posting more stuff.