[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gabe, PS: Please permit my sense of humor to show. Elisabeth writes a long article about the "Holy Warrior review" and the only response she gets from two esteemed netters is her one line reference to airline hostess. Now you know why I find life funny.:=))
This is my response: I sometimes wonder whether Gilbert actually reads all the posts that he comments on. I did comment on Elisabeth's multiline putdown of air stewardesses, but I commented at greater length on her longer putdown of book reviewers. So for Gilbert to say that the only response Elisabeth got was to "her one line reference to airline hostesses" is wrong. At another time, but in connection with the same thread, Gilbert has assumed that I assumed that Avelino was the author of the unfavorable review being discussed. That is not an assumption he could have made from anything I wrote; why then did he make it? To cover his own blunder in blaming Avelino for being the author? In another line, he pointed to "Ribeiros" as being among those who dump on other Goans. As one of a number of Ribeiros who share that name, I criticise people when I feel criticism is warranted; I do not go out of my way to criticise Goans because they are Goans. However, I feel it would be quite unfair, when someone deserves to be criticised, to withhold that criticism just because he happens to be a Goan. Gilbert Lawrence and Victor Rangel- Ribeiro should be judged by the things they say or write or do, and the fact that they are Goans should not be allowed to stand in the way. Regards, Victor Rangel-Ribeiro _____________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list ([email protected])
