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|    Catja Pafort to Brian M. Scott    |
|    Re: What (not) to write...    |
|    22 Sep 08 16:09:53    |
      67d5933c       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              --       writing blog @ http://beyond-elechan.livejournal.com              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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