"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

[William769]

Eleanor Roosevelt.

[jwirr]

1. And she would know. I was born in 41 so I remember the things that

were said about her in that era. They insisted she was ugly for one thing. It has always made me angry when I hear that. I am sure she learned her own form of self-respect addressing idiot ideas like that.

[MemeSmith]

2. We teach our kids about 'The Game...'

The Game, is a system of point scoring that goes on between human beings of all ages, over the issue of percieved social status.

In The Game, your competitors try to score points off you to inflate their percieved standing, relative to yours.

We teach our kids two main themes:

1. Anyone who tries to score points off you is proving that -
a. They feel that they need points, which proves that, despite their claims, they are really low, not high, in their own eyes.
b. They feel that you have points that they can take, which proves that, despite their claims, you are really high, not low, in their eyes.

2. (Paraphrasing ER) For anyone to successfully score points off you, you have to actually give them the points.


My sig file is another way of looking at the same game.