Wayne Boatwright
What a shame. I've never experienced it in my social circles to such an extend that would warrant the vehemence of some of these responses. I suppose that if someone across-the-board refuses based on the unpleasant woman factor, then they're most likely to live the rest of their lives basing their actions and relationships on the unpleasant woman factor. In that case, the lack of sharing is more sympotmatic than it is the problem itself.
Gooooood Corn BreadW. Wells You missed his point. Corn Bread is not "cornbread". But I suspect you are spamming anyway, since you advocate...
I enjoy sharing with my friends, and I enjoy it when my friends will share their talents and abilities with me. However, I'm never so arrogant or infantile as to buttume that they are somehow required, as a rule of friendship or a tenent of polite society, to turn over -- lock, stock, and barrel -- the entire fruits of their labor to me merely at my request because I want it. Nor would I dream of being bothered or offended if someone said that a certain cookie or cake or candy or dish (or plant food or garden fertilizer or bath salt or soap-making technique or fabric dye or whatever) is something for which they'll share the product, but for which they'd rather not give out the *recipe*. Besides, it gives me added leverage to request that specific
I suppose, in my own experience, it's more a matter of general, overall atbreastude than it is of any single specific action. Of course, your mileage may vary.
Alexis.
