No, I'm pointing out that you made a gross overstatement. Did you say "because there is no single correct reading of any literature text"? No, you didn't. What you said was "any given text."
"The sky isn't a damned text."
And that isn't even an actual grammatically correct sentence. "The sky is blue." IS text. It is, in fact, "any given text." Which is what you said.
If what you meant was literature, then that is what you should have said. Of course, simply inserting literature doesn't make the statement any less of an over-generalization, just less of a gross one.
"Go to an English department and present this argument. I'll wait."
::grins:: I did. In 2007 at the University of Washington. Given that I walked away with my degree, I'm gonna say it went over fairly well. No waiting involved.
"And I was asking Dmitri because I value his penis-having opinion."
And thus you show you once again are missing the point to why people are chafed by your statements. IT SHOULDN'T MATTER WHAT HIS GENITALIA IS. You keep parsing things in terms of "well, you're a guy" and it has zero relevance to whether or not his opinion is good, bad or indifferent. It isn't a "penis-having opinion", it's just an opinion. You are so doggedly determined to view things in terms of gender bias that you have locked yourself into the sexism you claim to abhor.
Re: hoo boy, this opens up a can of worms....
Date: 2010-05-06 12:09 am (UTC)No, I'm pointing out that you made a gross overstatement. Did you say "because there is no single correct reading of any literature text"? No, you didn't. What you said was "any given text."
"The sky isn't a damned text."
And that isn't even an actual grammatically correct sentence. "The sky is blue." IS text. It is, in fact, "any given text." Which is what you said.
If what you meant was literature, then that is what you should have said. Of course, simply inserting literature doesn't make the statement any less of an over-generalization, just less of a gross one.
"Go to an English department and present this argument. I'll wait."
::grins:: I did. In 2007 at the University of Washington. Given that I walked away with my degree, I'm gonna say it went over fairly well. No waiting involved.
"And I was asking Dmitri because I value his penis-having opinion."
And thus you show you once again are missing the point to why people are chafed by your statements. IT SHOULDN'T MATTER WHAT HIS GENITALIA IS. You keep parsing things in terms of "well, you're a guy" and it has zero relevance to whether or not his opinion is good, bad or indifferent. It isn't a "penis-having opinion", it's just an opinion. You are so doggedly determined to view things in terms of gender bias that you have locked yourself into the sexism you claim to abhor.
~Aramada