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Originally Posted by Candylecious
I am glad you appreciated my POV.......Afterall, you are the reason we all gathered here..........@ highlighted....I dont blame you; guilt trips are meant to trigger those kind of emotions; fear being a big one!...Hope everything works out for you sis!!....
@ Sifu, I knew someone would come at me with the till you are married post, just like BBfly was told she couldn't possibly relate to a mother's plight because she isn't one......My sister, I might not be married, but I still have a wealth of experience in certain things.....I no need show my dross for public for people to confirm the color.....  |
I have no clue where you got that. Those words were never written anywhere in this thread... But if that's what you understood from my post to her, it is well...
The simple fact is, no matter how much experience you think you have in a particular subject, as a
spectator, it cannot, in any logical or realistic term, compare to the actual experience. This is a simple fact.
Do you have a right to an opinion?
ABSOLUTELY! Will your opinion be wrong just because of the lack of actual experience?
ABSOLUTELY NOT!
However, just because, throughout my life, I have seen women enduring menstrual cramps or PMS, I can NEVER claim to have more knowledge than a woman that has actually EXPERIENCED these things. Short of being a research scientist, who has conducted multiple studies with women, to become and expert in the field, whatever "wealth of knowledge", I think I have, cannot trump someone's else's experience. And I should not take offence if a woman, that has experienced those things, points out my lack of experience. It is simply a statement of fact.
Again, experience, no experience, EVERYONE has a right to their opinion and comments.
Simply pointing out a lack of one's experience in a particular issue does not discount their comments, but adds perspective to it.