If you don't care that he's a guy, then WHY, in the name of all that is holy, did you LEAD OFF your argument with "Well, I'll take it under advisement, but here's a thing. You're a guy geek."
Your original statement utterly belies the one you just made. If the fact that he is male didn't matter to you at all, you would have never said "here's a thing. You're a guy geek." It very clearly was an issue, not only one you felt you had to point out, but the VERY FIRST thing you had to point out.
"I mentioned that because HE mentioned it. Seriously, don't you get that?"
YOU mentioned it first. Seriously, go back and reread. Dmitri was not the person to bring up gender first in this discussion, that was you. With your "here's a thing. You're a guy geek."
HE said he would recommend the books to "just about anybody." YOU responded with "Well, I'll take it under advisement, but here's a thing. You're a guy geek."
YOU brought up the gender issue. Everyone else has been responding to *your* inexplicable dragging of it into the discussion.
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Re: hoo boy, this opens up a can of worms....
Date: 2010-05-06 12:20 am (UTC)If you don't care that he's a guy, then WHY, in the name of all that is holy, did you LEAD OFF your argument with "Well, I'll take it under advisement, but here's a thing. You're a guy geek."
Your original statement utterly belies the one you just made. If the fact that he is male didn't matter to you at all, you would have never said "here's a thing. You're a guy geek." It very clearly was an issue, not only one you felt you had to point out, but the VERY FIRST thing you had to point out.
"I mentioned that because HE mentioned it. Seriously, don't you get that?"
YOU mentioned it first. Seriously, go back and reread. Dmitri was not the person to bring up gender first in this discussion, that was you. With your "here's a thing. You're a guy geek."
HE said he would recommend the books to "just about anybody." YOU responded with "Well, I'll take it under advisement, but here's a thing. You're a guy geek."
YOU brought up the gender issue. Everyone else has been responding to *your* inexplicable dragging of it into the discussion.
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