In my response to Max Dashu, I said:
>>So, you have no penis and your lungs are healthy. Do you have >>anything
>>else to share that might be of interest to the List? >:)
Bob J intervenes to show us his/her enlightened morals:
>This childish pettiness seems very unbecoming for a group of historic
> >minded people. Please stop.
It wasn't meant as pettiness at all. It was meant as "So what?". Max was
apparently offended by my innocent and merely playful reference to her as
"young man"... but how can one expect people to know what sex someone really
is on the internet (especially with a traditionally male name like Max), and
more importantly, why should anyone care? My above statement was meant to
say, "I don't give a damn whether you're a man, woman, transvestite or
transgender person." Regardless of the sex or sexual orientation, Max
doesn't get a cigar for his/her/its efforts. Whether he/she/he-she feels
smoking a cigar is morally ethical or not is none of my concern and lies
outside the focus of this dialog.
I would rather hope that people stop the petty political correctness that
eats away at a topic in favor of trivialities such as these. We were talking
about the possibility of early influence on mythology by the Tyrrhenians
(ancestors of Etruscan, Lemnian and Rhaetic) on prehistoric Egyptians.
Putting aside the PC crap, do you, Bob J (whatever your sex may or may not
be), have anything of relevance to add to this particular discussion?
- gLeN
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