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   Catja Pafort to Brian M. Scott   
   Re: What (not) to write...   
   22 Sep 08 16:09:53   
   
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   From: green_knight@greenknight.org.uk.invalid   
      
   Brian M. Scott wrote:   
      
   > I think that you're misinterpreting Sea Wasp's terminology:   
   > I take 'pansy-ass nancy boy' to be roughly 'gutless wonder   
   > who'd rather let deer starve en masse than cull the herd   
   > (for instance)' -- someone so soft-hearted as to be   
   > soft-headed.   
      
   We've had this discussion before, and I don't think it can be entirely   
   resolved, but I *do* think that it's a good thing if people watch their   
   language and think about what they're really saying - whether it's   
   denigrating women, homosexuals, Blacks, or any other social grouping: it   
   might not have been _meant_ to be insulting, but I did not have to think   
   twice _why_ Zeborah would want to take it over here; Sea Wasp's post had   
   the safe effect on me.   
      
      
   Catja   
      
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