On Wednesday 01 December 2004 3:28 pm, Matthew Palmer wrote: > Back to the topic: it's not a matter of respect -- it if was, we'd be > respecting other people's beliefs as well, instead of screaming at anyone in > favour of these images in Debian. In reality, it's about Political > Correctness: "Being Politically Correct is bending over backwards to avoid > offending people who are buisy [sic] manipulating you by being creatively > thin skinned."
Mmm no, I disagree. When someone objects to something like this, and you dismiss them as being manipulative and creatively thin-skinned and politically correct, you're perpetrating the same old garbage that women have been subjected to since forever. First we get criticized for not being more assertive and standing up for ourselves. When we do, we're accused of being thin-skinned and whiny. How about taking these objections seriously, and talking things over seriously, instead of dismissing people's concerns in such negative terms? Both of your posts were dismissive and disrespectful. That doesn't help anything. This sort of thing bothers a lot of people- telling them their feelings are wrong is not the answer. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carla Schroder this message brought to you by Libranet 2.8 and Kmail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
