aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!

[kaffy_r]

Urge. To. Kill.
Reason #1,436,085 I am glad I do not have a gun or frequent flier miles. It's also reason #9,572,009 I am ... diffident ... about religiously-based gender roles. The laff riot really gets rolling around paras 7 and 8.

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[dr-whuh.livejournal.com]

You're very diplomatic, Ms Kaffyr. Were someone to act like this on my LJ, I'd suggest that he or she remove his or her lure from the water and speed the motor up a little, or find a new lake.

Poll: Is there anyone here who didn't pass civics class? Who doesn't understand that when over half of the population is disenfranchised due to its type of personal plumbing, a governmental unit cannot be considered a democracy?

[(Anonymous)]

Good evening to you, too, Dr.

Did the women of Athens vote? Did the women of our own country vote before a constitutional amendment passed? General suffrage is a separate matter from "democracy"--and as it happens, one of the things I was talking about APPROVINGLY when I mentioned how important other things than "democracy" *are*.

Jeeziss, I'm not ADVOCATING what happened. I give up, though. Clearly I'm not fit company here. Pity, that.

[dr-whuh.livejournal.com]

Answer to question 1: No. Question 2: No.

The point is that ya didn't have to come off so damned fannishly snotty. You were abrupt as hell, and when you "suggested" to mizzlaurajean that she "reexamine her presuppositions," you were using the old "Why isn't everyone as learned and brilliant as I am? Go get an education, you lout!" ploy. In other words, it ain't whatcha said that riled folk, it was the way ya said it.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, thanks for the feedback. Much is lost in this medium. The presuppositions I was asking Mizz to reexamine were about /me/, not about anything else. To some extent I was mindreading as well, of course.

It is, as she later wrote, /precisely a civil right issue, not a democracy issue/.

I apologize for my irritability and my unsociable utterance to Kathy _in print_, where it sat like a turd on your carpet.

The rest is silence.

--MMB

[kaffy_r]

Sweetie, you can make me so mad, and put so many damned grey hairs on my head (thank god for L'Oreal), but I still love you. I think perhaps the estimable BB has the right of it. Let us all now agree that bunnies are fuzzy, stupid laws are stupid fucking laws, and that civil discourse is still an art to be cherished, and one only slightly below friendship.