From: try.not.to@but.see.sig   
      
   On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:30:55 -0400, David Friedman wrote   
   (in article ):   
      
   > In article <1dg3brf23ohcr$.1xtdwqu1iv51f.dlg@40tude.net>,   
   >  "Brian M. Scott"  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:40:31 +0100, Catja Pafort   
   >>  wrote in   
   >>    
   >> in rec.arts.sf.misc:   
   >>   
   >> [...]   
   >>   
   >>> And I think it's important for people to point out that   
   >>> what someone else wrote sounds sexist/racist/homophobic   
   >>> in a polite and grown-up manner. This is not about being   
   >>> PC, but about awareness.   
   >>   
   >>> After all, there are plenty of neutral terms that could   
   >>> have been used.   
   >>   
   >> Bluntly, I *don't* think that it sounds homophobic, given   
   >> the quotation marks and the fact that I don't recall having   
   >> seen any indication of homophobia from the author.   
   >   
   > I'm also struck by the word "neutral." Catja may have meant "neutral   
   > with regard to homosexuality." But my worry is that if one is too   
   > concerned with never giving offense, one's writing will be too neutral   
   > in a more general sense. Seawasp was, I think, deliberately trying to   
   > use emotively loaded terminology in order to make his point.   
   >   
   >   
      
   That's how I read it. However, the reaction was out of proportion to the   
   action.   
      
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