Comment on Open thread, Jan. 26 - Feb. 1, 2015

Wed, 28 Jan 2015 10:45:14 GMT

You strike me as being incredibly charitable towards aa, and more to the point, incredibly uncharitable towards the people who are getting irate.

If you think I'm one of those people, I'd like to make it very clear that I do not think those particular suggestions are bad, and that is not what I'm irate about.

(Actually, I don't think I was getting irate at aa or his posts. I'm getting irate at you, however.)

Can you really not see the difference between "if your child lacks interpersonal skills, you should help them develop them" and "if girls don't find your son sexually attractive, he needs some kind of intervention to correct that right away"? Or do you just expect everyone to make the mental effort to read the latter as the former, regardless of the history of the person speaking?

I may be being uncharitable towards you right now, but I really have no conception of how you could be genuinely confused here.

Also, relevant to the thread: I have now been karma-bombed. (Not my most recent few comments, but ~15 of my comments in a row have suddenly been downvoted.)

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