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- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!nott!cunews!dsmither
- From: dsmither@alfred.carleton.ca (Diane Smithers)
- Subject: Re: logic confounding people unclear on the concept
- Message-ID: <dsmither.727645242@cunews>
- Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
- Organization: Carleton University
- References: <1993Jan19.190756.2489@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <1jjsb2INN603@shelley.u.washington.edu> <dsmither.727569348@cunews> <1jmfhkINNcjr@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:40:42 GMT
- Lines: 71
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- In <1jmfhkINNcjr@shelley.u.washington.edu> paleblue@byron.u.washington.edu (Hermes) writes:
-
- >In article <dsmither.727569348@cunews> dsmither@alfred.carleton.ca (Diane Smithers) writes:
- >>
- >>Just out of irritated curiosity, why are you bothering to pretend that
- >>you have (wide-eyed like alice in wonderland) 'just happened along
- >>into a big confusing Angst Group that you don't really, um,
- >>understand?'.
-
- >honest, I've never read this group before. But my eyes aren't wide. I just
- >have plain old normal eyes.
-
- Fine. You've never read the group before - that wasn't my point. Look,
- my point for the narrative device impaired is that you're obviously
- just a shit-disturber that is putting on an act.
-
- >'I don't have any angst; where do I get some?'
-
- >I didn't say that, naughty. :)
-
- Ha ha; whatever. Again, I should obviously be more literal with you -
- but that is the image you are conveying: Cheer up; I try to avoid angst;
- (giggle) should I be a man or a woman? which has less angst - carrots
- or avaacados? etc..
-
- >That
- >>"oppression *thing"? "Patriarchy and *stuff*"? "Being oppressed and
- >>*junk*"?
-
- >These are all examples of my dialect. I don't think they prove anything.
-
- Your "dialect"? Please. With all due respect, I doubt it. In
- context, you obviously have a frame of reference for what you are
- saying, but you are playing dumb.
-
- >> Give it a rest.
-
- >I guess I could stop posting if that's what everybody wants. :( But I
- >really would want one question answered: man or woman? which should I be?
- >>
- >>Diane S.
- >>
- >>- pardon the strong reply, but how annoying.
-
- >No, it's cool. If you feel strongly about something, it's totally all
- >right to reply strongly. That's my opinion, IMHO. :)
-
- For the record, the strong reply was for anyone else that was reading.
- I was meaning that *you* were annoying. Do you need a brick to fall
- on your head? There are many other groups that would suit your
- purposes (whatever they are) better - but you are not dealing with a
- homogenous body of people, an 'audience' that can answer your
- questions about what this thing, 'angst' is that you so cheerfully try
- to avoid. And this is not an Angst Research Station, so quit posing
- theatrical questions about your gender. Again, my advice would be to
- find somewhere else to post - it is hard enough to negotiate meaning
- through this technological medium without deliberately shit-disturbing
- people like yourself.
-
- Diane S.
-
-
- - I guess I've answered my own previous question about whether these
- incursions of meddlingly insensitive 'happy' people happen frequently
- or not.
-
- Soc/Anth Dept.
- Carleton University
- Ottawa, Canada
-