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- From: alan@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (Alan R. Weiss)
- Subject: Re: Liberty (was something relevant about CO-2 long ago...)
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:52:45 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.194804.2371@tc.cornell.edu> <BzH9Ho.241F@austin.ibm.com> <1992Dec20.113945.26727@panix.com>
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- In article <1992Dec20.113945.26727@panix.com> mara@panix.com (Mara Chibnik) writes:
- >
- >
- >Ya know, I think I'm gonna *scream*.
-
- Feel better now :-)
-
-
- >Melinda Shore-- more patiently than I was able to do-- tried to
- >explain to the world in general that women's feelings about being
- >excluded by what is supposed to be the "inclusive" use of the
- >masculine might not be the same as men's. Sure, she's annoyed.
- >We've been through this many times, in this and in other newsgroups.
-
- Uh huh.
-
- >And then, along comes alan@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (Alan R. Weiss)
- >who says:
- > >>I didn't miss the point of the posting. I've heard the
- > >>same "point" over and over and over and over and over and
- > >>over and over.
- > >Not from me, since I'm new to these parts .....
- >
- >But, of course, he doesn't make any *better* point, and he doesn't
- >offer any argument that overcomes Melinda's position.
-
- I made several points about marketing your viewpoints to the rest
- of society. You missed it.
-
- > The fact that
- >*he* is new to these parts means that we (for some value of we) owe
- >him not to be upset at hearing him mouth the same stuff that's been
- >annoying us for all those years.
-
- I never said, "don't flame me." :-) People who run from controversy
- are so -- boring. Dull. Smug. Stuck in safe-space. The
- *real* challenge can't be found screaming at me over some electronic
- backyard fence.
-
-
- >It won't wash.
-
- So you say. I translate this into, "I didn't convince you."
-
- > >First of all, Melinda (herm says, going all gender-neutral
- > >parental on you ;-) I didn't USE any gender-specific language.
- > >Herm was decrying the use of it IN GENERAL.
-
- Did you bother to listen to anything I said, or was it just
- a "general impression" kind of take?
-
- >Bleah. I do have friends who would celebrate the demise of the
- >genderlinked pronoun-- for good reason. They don't identify
- >comfortably with either masculine or feminine. But that wasn't what
- >Melinda was arguing, and it's not what I'm arguing either. (I'm
- >not yet revolutionary enough to feel the need for genderless
- >personal pronouns, although I gotta say that there is some
- >interesting potential in the idea.)
-
- OK. Got it.
-
-
- > >Secondly, you're absolutely correct about one thing: I don't
- > >think this is a very big priority, in my life. No, I'm not
- > >insensitive or boorish or stooopid -->
- >I guess you're just a pretty good actor, then. You sure had me
- >fooled.
-
- Then you fool pretty easy. And, clearly, I'm wasting my time
- here with you, since you do not choose to see *any* validity
- in *anything* I said. Which means you are either stupid, boorish,
- or insensitive. This is quite dismaying - I just can't believe
- that you are *that* stuck on auto-pilot, Mara. It must be
- my fault, then - I didn't communicate clearly enough.
-
- Besides, Melinda jumped into the conversation on a piggyback,
- just like I did (and now you, too). Can we get back to the original
- point?
-
-
- >
- >--
- >
- > Mara Chibnik
- > mara@panix.com Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Really.
-
-
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