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GraspingTheNetTalk 13 - 30 Sep 2009 - Main.DanaDelger
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I just read the article about "cooking-pot" markets, which happened to comment on my "altruism" critique (last paragraph), so I will go ahead and provide a block quote, followed by a response:
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 While's there's plenty in this conversation I find myself offended by, I feel obliged to call out in particular this statement: "I wager that your lop-sided use of the female pronoun was a semi-conscious reaction to the intensely aggressive (some might say "masculine") nature of the ongoing debate. Was this an attempt to diffuse or balance the emotions underlying the discussion by planting sensibility sirens? If so, you might be on to something -- something deeper than the anti-emotional nature of your altruism calculus. Certainly, my attempts at humor have intended to serve a similar diffusive function but in a much different manner."
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<		Really? Really, really? I can't tell you how offensive I find it that you name what appears to at least this "feminine" observer to be merely a thorough and intellectual discussion a "masculine" debate. Huh? What makes this a "masculine" debate? Is it that the participants are men, or is it, as the casual sexism of your comment suggests, that you feel it's just getting a little too "intense" in here for the women folk? That you refer to the use of feminine pronouns as somehow having the power to "diffuse or balance the emotions underlying the discussion by planting sensibility sirens" only drives home the subtle yet unmistakable misogyny underlying your statements. This kind of tired gender stereotyping and sexism was a dead horse long ago; I'm those "emotional" types among us would appreciate it if you could stop trotting out its corpse any time the discussion gets too tough for you.
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>		Really? Really, really? I can't tell you how offensive I find it that you name what appears to at least this "feminine" observer to be merely a thorough and intellectual discussion a "masculine" debate. Huh? What makes this a "masculine" debate? Is it that the participants are men, or is it, as the casual sexism of your comment suggests, that you feel it's just getting a little too "intense" in here for the women folk? That you refer to the use of feminine pronouns as somehow having the power to "diffuse or balance the emotions underlying the discussion by planting sensibility sirens" only drives home the subtle yet unmistakable misogyny underlying your statements. This kind of tired gender stereotyping and sexism was a dead horse long ago; I'm sure those "emotional" types among us would appreciate it if you could stop trotting out its corpse any time the discussion gets too tough for you.
 -- DanaDelger - 30 Sep 2009

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