--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "What you are putting forth basically means > the end of any and all honest communication." > > Wow, you hit that one out of the park Sal. High five. What would > have taken me pages summed up in one short phrase.
And it would have been just as insane as what Sal said. It's truly perplexing that *anybody* could get what I'm saying so completely, totally, off- the-wall wrong. It isn't even *controversial*. Let's take another example. Suppose somebody says they don't think MMY is a male chauvinist. And I respond, "Well, he does say women should stay at home and raise the children." Would you assume I *believed* women should stay at home and raise the children? Or would you assume that I was pointing out that what he says indicates that he's a male chauvinist, contrary to what the first person said? The context of the exchange would suggest the latter, would it not? In context, there should be no impediment to honest communication in this exchange. I'm disagreeing with the first person about whether MMY is a male chauvinist, and I'm citing what MMY has said to support my disagreement. What would impede honest communication would be if somebody else started berating me for supporting MMY's male chauvinism. I didn't express an opinion either way about whether women should stay in the home and raise children, so there's no basis for making such an assumption. Barry makes similar assumptions all the time, that if a TMer quotes MMY about anything, it must mean the TMer believes what MMY says is true. But that isn't necessarily the case, as the above example shows. As it happens, I *don't* believe women should stay in the home and raise children. I don't support MMY's male chauvinism at all. I was quoting MMY to the first person not to support MMY's views but to point out that MMY is indeed a male chauvinist. Good grief, people, get a grip! To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
