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[winneganfake]

Ok, this sums up my reaction fairly well, given that I finished the book half an hour ago, and I'm still having trouble parsing complete sentences:



The difference would be the fact that I'm currently still muttering a lot less complimentary language about said author.

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Re: hoo boy, this opens up a can of worms....

[faerieburst.livejournal.com]

"I don't care that Dmitri is a guy."

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.

~Aramada

Re: hoo boy, this opens up a can of worms....

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

Yes, and I could have SWORN that I clarified that for you.

I was referring to male privilege, I thought I could use shorthand because we're friends, I was wrong.

I went back and put in an edit in the comment underneath.

Re: hoo boy, this opens up a can of worms....

[faerieburst.livejournal.com]

"Yes, and I could have SWORN that I clarified that for you."

Both of my comments were posted long before your clarification.

"I went back and put in an edit in the comment underneath."

::looks:: ::facepalms::

This is your edited comment?
"You are a man, so you have this male privilege."

Are you kidding me? He's male, so he automatically has male privilege. That's your stance? That's your enlightened, non-sexist, genitalia neutral edited revision?

Are you fucking kidding me?

~Aramada

Re: hoo boy, this opens up a can of worms....

[winneganfake.livejournal.com]

All right. I have been in and out of the fucking emergency room now, and I am in a hell of a lot of pain, disoriented from meds, and will be so for the next several days.

Knowing the both of you, I know you guys will keep going at this ad infitium, so I am saying this now, as I am sick of seeing it further hitting my inbox, especially when:

1- I need to be working, not replying to arguments that have been arsed up out of all reasonable proportion.

2- I am as I previously said, in a fuckton of pain. Getting worked up about this downright unproductive argument is not going to help that in the slightest.

To that end, the both of you: Take it elsewhere or can it. Comments in anything other than ready agreement will start the lockdowns, banning, and eventual unfriending, which I really do not want to do, but well, I hurt, and I need some freaking sanity, not an inbox crowded with twenty more replies. Clear?