Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.spitfire.i.gajendra.net!not-for-mail From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: [OT] What is happening in/to the US ? Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 15:52:53 -0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Message-ID: References: <0deacdee3af55f25007e4493e3d24d54e6b7a13f.camel@munted.eu> Injection-Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 15:52:53 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="spitfire.i.gajendra.net:166.84.136.80"; logging-data="19744"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) Bytes: 2603 Lines: 40 In article , Simon Clubley wrote: >On 2024-07-25, Craig A. Berry wrote: >> On 7/24/24 10:02 PM, Dave Froble wrote: >>> On 7/24/2024 9:22 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote: >>>> >>>> On 7/24/24 7:15 AM, Simon Clubley wrote: >> >>>>> OTOH, Ms Harris needs to learn gravitas and to stop behaving like a >>>>> giggling >>>>> teenage schoolgirl if she wants to be elected (and to be taken seriously >>>>> by the rest of the world.) >>>> >>>> Would you describe a male politician whose laugh you didn't like as >>>> "like a giggling teenage schoolgirl"? >>>> >>>> Please take your ignorance and misogyny elsewhere. >>>> >>> >>> Why is it that one cannot say anything about some female without getting >>> that silly word flung at them? >> >> He didn't "say anything." He specifically belittled her for how she >> expresses emotion in public, which is about as classic as misogyny gets. >> If you don't get that, educate yourself. Here might be a good place to >> start: > >And that reply is a perfect example of what I meant in my followup. > >You have taken a legitimate comment about the personality of a person >wanting to do what is one of the most important jobs in your country >and rewritten it to state that any such criticism is an attack on all >women for being women, instead of discussing the criticism itself. Perhaps if you hadn't phrased it in terms of her acting, "like a giggling teenage schoolgirl" others wouldn't have found it an expression of misogyny. After all, you were the one who phrased it in terms of her being a woman. - Dan C.