You are not alone. I have the BB Q10, before which I had the 9900 and am pining for a android with a comparable qwerty...

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I hear you. A society not heavily based on the family unit is dysfunctional to my understanding and observation, and I may well be overlooking my own advantages. Still though, at base, I do not believe that it is any sort of difficult thing, this relating to the the opposite gender thing of which you speak -- you just find the one with whom you build your family and get to know each other. The others you treat professionally, without reference to their sexuality.

I respect but cannot speak to your personal experience, not because I don't believe that a valid means of securing knowledge about the world, for indeed, I hold it to the basic, but because I simply don't know enough about the experience and the context to make any sort of judgement.

Thank you, though, for responding.

a mixed work place (should be school) radically differ from those of a mixed workplace

I come from a large culture where schools are separate. We do fine in the work world, we relate well to people and we marry as a norm and have many kids. I submit that adolescent mingling hurts male, female relations. Not only do the dynamics of a mixed work place radically differ from those of a mixed workplace, but to the extent that they converge, the workplace is dysfunctional. Hey she's hot, got a pick!

LAUSD will be tricked into to doing the right thing for the wrong reasons and it will work and we will all learn something.

Boys schools and Girls schools will outperform mixed schools and heads will explode. Mark the words of the great hevel-varik!

I award you hevel-varik points. That is a very special comment. It's not just special cause you are special.

I hear you. Not all men, certainly not, but some men, yes, so the woman has to use judgement, if her judgement is good, she's more likely to avoid problems, if it's not, she less likely. And yes, if she does not hang out with men in private, she isn't intimate with here chances of being raped decline precipitously. Fault is not binary and I'm thinking you know that already (here's where I insert a set of analogies that are either obvious or straw-men, so I'll spare you :) A woman can do what she whatever she wants, but there are associated risks.
 

I am certain you make a great deal of sense to yourself.

Well, yes, a woman should not hang out in private with a man, that she is not intimate with, if she wants to be completely safe. That makes sense. Don't know what happened with Kobe Bryant, but do you thing it was wise for that lady to go into a hotel room with him, with no expectation of intimacy. It's a dangerous world, the best way to navigate it is through wise behavior. It really is that simple.

Girls don't hang out with drunk men. Men don't hang out with drunk women. The standard behavior on a university campus invites sexual misbehavior. Mod me into oblivion.

That is absurd. Long ago teachers knew the material very well but had no formal training in teaching and now teachers do not know the material well but have tons of training in teaching and everybody knows that modern education is the bestest ever.

I thought this was going to be amount getting more men into teaching positions but equal racial representation is significant becuase race is signifcant and equal gender representation is insignificant because gender is insignificant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

The claim itself is 'sexist' I'm okay with it because I'm 'sexist' (whatever the hell that means I'm for it). I am against it because I'm 'sexist.' Good times.

Slashdot has finally decended into Kafka land, the comment section having been there for some time. English wasn't made. No comparable entity has ever been made. Man was created a speaker of language which facilitated expression of his soul. And Man made a tower which resulted in several languages which evolved into many, many more, or all languages just evolved along with the speakers from nothingness over a looooong amount of time. Depending on your religion.