CuriousLord
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ORIGINAL: CuriousLord Your emotions which were offended in being called "a girl". Oh, sorry to have given that impression, I wasn't offended at all. It was slightly irksome, but I found your double standard to be more interesting, specially since you called me girl while simultaneously claiming to be trying to take pains NOT to sound condescending. To find something "slightly irksome" is to find it offensive, just in lesser degree. The sentiment was accurate. Of course. I wasn't afraid of "girl" offending you. I was afraid of "smart" offending you. Some people can find it offensive to have their intelligence assessed by another, as it can seem judgemental. I've been trying my utmost to be kind even to blantantly rude posters, so I was trying to be sensitive to one I didn't find troublesome. quote:
ORIGINAL: LuckyAlbatross quote:
This is the condescending part of your tone- you're stating I'm unused to this environment and implying that the stated was somehow less than obvious. YOU were the one who said you aren't used to this environment- it was your entire reasoning behind why you felt it was ok to call me girl but not for someone to call you boy. You've missed the point on this one. Not the environment, the individual. The internet has a lot of people on it, as does this board. We're from all over. Not everyone here would have been offended by the reference. As some wouldn't, I made the careless assumption you wouldn't. It was a thoughtless mistake in the choice of a single word- one for which I apologized. Of course being thoughtless is something to avoid. You don't have to state it. It happens, now and then. You've made a post based around a thoughtless word- one you say was "slightly irksome"- after it was already apologized for. I find this to be rubbing in a mistake. quote:
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Now, trying to tell me how I should think and act, just because I used a common word in a careless way? That is condescending, LA. If this is something you do not realize, then I'd suggest you take your own advice. I didn't try to tell you anything. I advised that IF you don't want to spend half your discussion time apologizing over slips like that, and IF you want to spend your time in forums where we don't treat people differently based on gender or orientation- then you SHOULD watch yourself more. Which is obvious. As I stated, it was a careless mistake. You don't have to make a big deal out of in it trying to "give (me) advice" because of it. This just serves to point out that I had, infact, made a mistake on one word- something I find to be of condescending intention. quote:
ORIGINAL: LuckyAlbatross Your reaction here is telling me that you take open good advice and get defensive and assign all sorts of bad intentions to the giver. Unneeded advice over something obvious is conscending. The very nature of the advice being unneeded begs the question as to why it was delivered. To this end, I sense posturing from you. Again, if this is incorrect, I would advise you look back at your own advise in dealing with others.
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