article on the name "America"

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:08 AM, David A. Daniel <dad at pokerwiz.com> wrote:

> the screw-anything-that-moves sex lives of the natives.


Uh, like, I don't want to come across as a sexist pig or as a racist,
but, well, the fact of the matter is that, when I was stationed in
Europe in the Army, I couldn't avoid thinking,:

"Damn! This must be the way that the white studs felt, when they
'discovered' America and the South Sea Islands!"

As *seriously* lame and nerdy as I was back in The World, I was a
stone player (not "playa"; back then, a "player" was only a playboy,
in the old-fashioned sense of that word - I exaggerate WRT myself, of
course - with no connection to pimping or any other form of
physically- and psychologically-brutal abuse and exploitation of
women, or the word might even merely a "professional" gambler, like
the legendary, folk-heroic Stavin Chain) in Germany and Holland.
Actually, the word was so empty of content that "player' could replace
"man" as a trivially-hipper term of address. IAC, in Europe, I was, in
the BE phrase, "turnin' *back* pussy."

I was going to go anecdotal with a full explanation as to why my
self-quote night be considered "sexist." But, WTF? Does anybody really
care?

-Wilson

-Wilson



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-Wilson
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