It's in the air....

[sibyline]

This whole retro pre-feminist business seems to be injecting itself into lots of things. Consider Stephen Holden's review of Pride and Prejudice the movie in the NYT. The last graph says: As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice" speaks wistfully to

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[_mysterieuse_]

A relationship like that would exhaust me.

[sibyline]

yeah, it's interesting what different people look for. i like intellectually combative relationships with underlying emotional support. my most healthy relationship was with a man i almost never fought with when it came to domestic or personal things, but who i couldn't talk to about whether truth is fundamentally relative or absolute, because we always ended up yelling at each other. that's what i get for dating metaphysicians.

[_mysterieuse_]

'that's what i get for dating metaphysicians.'

I love this comment and am still chuckling - thanks :)

[sibyline]

i have many funny stories about the metaphysician. one of my favorite ones was when he spent three months writing a paper on the nature of desire, which often prevented him from coming to bed with me. so night after night, i had to think of ingenious ways to get him to set the paper aside, and put the nature of his desire into practice.