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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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 I didn't mean to be casually sexist or insinuate that this is a discussion only suited for men. Mainly, I just found the sudden use of all feminine pronouns by Brett interesting and offerred a sociological hypothesis. I still think it's interesting and would be glad to discuss the variety of approaches to the use of pronouns and their justifications. And I hope Brett and anyone else feels free to point out why my hypothesis is wrong; after all, I don't have access to Brett's psyche. I hope he's not offended, but perhaps it is best to get these kinds of sociological dynamics out on the table rather than leaving them hidden in pronouns. Dana - I would be interested to know if you disagree. This course is largely about the transformation of society and its cognition as a result, so I thought it was appropriate to probe a bit.

-- JonathanBoyer - 30 Sep 2009

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Jonathan,

I was not offended (not even close). I do disagree with your inference about why I chose the female pronoun in my referenced post. I try to use the male and female versions in roughly equal proportions as you can see by my original post. Because the referenced post was somewhat short and used what I considered a single hypothetical, I had to choose one or the other and I randomly chose female. I do not think that there was any more to it than that.

I do want to say that I appreciate you facilitating many of these posts—irrespective of whether I agree with your positions.

-- BrettJohnson - 30 Sep 2009

 
 
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