tips for avoiding invisibility

please read mary winter's 11.08.08 rocky mountain news column with this same title.  she expounds upon the following tips:  avoid apologies, be brief, be direct, avoid emotional displays.  we need to know the rules when communicating with men.  we can understand the how and why of adapting a communication/language as needed.   they can't and won't.  so just do it.

not a whole lot shocks me anymore.  but i am still undone by audacity. especially when it is cloaked in sweet christian innocence.  i spent the whole election process  enduring obama-slamming emails from my old neighbor.  i often wanted to respond in kind (from my side), but took the high road of silence.  most of her emails i did not open.  some i did because the title clued me in to it being the height of ridiculous.   today, i got my first post election one from her (i knew it was just a matter of time).  basically, it was "morality lesson" starring the "smarter" republican party.  kids, a classroom election, one student standing for truth, justice and the "american" way, the other just offered ice cream.  of course the students voted for ice cream.  moral:  some people in this country acted like selfish, juveniles and just voted ice cream!   there was so much disturbing in the insidious language of the details. it was racist, separatist, anti-christian, anti-american, dictatorial, etc.  she did not realize that she was holding up a mirror to herself.  i find this scary and stinking of supremacist odor.    i can no longer excuse this and must eliminate this stupidity and bullyism from my mailbox.  i knew what i had to do...  relegate her to "spam" status!  why didn't i think of this a long, long time ago.