--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > As I wrote about earlier, pretending that the > > criticism or insult aimed at you *personally* > > is really about a group is an old cultist's > > trick, used to pretend it really *isn't* > > about you personally. But it is. > > Following up on this, just because it's a > fun topic, I think the issue is that some > people react to being called a name by > pretending that the name was "really" meant > to refer not to them personally but to a > group that they feel that they are "symbols" > for.
No, Barry, nobody here reacts that way. You made that up. Here's the real issue: It simply doesn't occur to men who don't have an underlying streak of misogyny to insult/attack/criticize a woman using terms that denigrate her on the basis of her gender. Doing so is therefore a sure sign of a bad attitude toward women. *Especially* in a person who styles himself a writer, I might add, because he presumably has a larger and more varied vocabulary on which to draw to formulate his criticisms/insults/attacks. It's a dead giveaway. And the pretense here is all yours.
