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Old 12-23-2007
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Re: The Debate Really IS over... NOT!

Good God; another tedious task of responding to a Daisy post.
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Originally Posted by daisym View Post
Is spudplanter an insult in American?

I apologise.

If Spadplanter were a Spudplanter he would be able to appreciate the impact of climate change on our environment.

I actually hadn't realised that I hade called him spudplanter - spadplanter doesn't mean anything to me, but spudplanter does, which is probably why I wrote the wrong word....
Your feigned innocence is as credible as the pitch of a snake oil salesman. I wonder why you are apologizing to me and not Spadplanter?
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.... However Si Modo - you are free to interpret my posts in any way you see fit....
As have others. The list of those who have called you out on your snipes, etc. is quite long, so your claim that you are a victim of my interpretations alone is a non-starter.
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.... Over the years I have been coming here I have been able to maintain quite cordial relations with a number of posters with whom I have very different points of view. The problem seems to be yours, not mine....
Those on that ever-growing list will disagree with your attempts to project your issues onto me.
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.... When you first came to USPO I thought, great, an intelligent poster,and another woman. We need more of both here.

Now I see you consorting with the likes of Captain Trips (previously Thane) whose contribution to USPO over the past few years has been mainly to insult and bait other posters,...
Consorting? I’m wondering how you came to that conclusion. But, how very un-liberal of you to cast guilt onto others for the associations you imagine exist. Tsk, tsk. He is a chemist; I am a chemist. Yes, burn the witch!
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… and your style is reminiscent of Chiquita -...
As that member is completely unfamiliar to me, this means nothing to me.
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… who had issues with non American posters ...
*sigh* I wonder what makes you think I have “issues” with non-Americans? As you make this claim, back it up.
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… especially women - in the same way you do (I have seen you attack Tethys and Sucre as well as myself)….
Get this straight and get it now – I haven’t any issues with any other posters based on gender. I detest the tactic some women use to attempt to marginalize other women by claiming they are put-upon by that woman because of their own gender. I detest the tactic some women use of playing the victim card in this manner. It is weak, cowardly, and detrimental to any solidarity of true feminists. I won’t play into it, so sell it elsewhere. Expect to be called out on it each and every time you use it with me. You call it an attack; I call it correcting your false assumptions in a tone appropriate to the nature of your posts. As you don’t like my calling you out on it, don’t do it or suck it up and accept responsibility for your participation in your role as a victim.

If a woman cannot stand on her own without marginalizing another woman based on gender alone, then she is moving progress of feminism in the opposite direction. It makes other feminists work much harder as we must compensate for this type of crutch some women use in desperation.
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… but virtually every response you make to a post of mine is bitchy and childish….
I imagine if you wouldn't allow your ideological differences to make you blind to the content of my responses to you (and many others who have responded to you similarly), you may have some actual insight into why you are such a victim of your own actions.
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…. However, over the last month or so I find whenever I see a post from you that I am reminded of Oscar Wilde, when he said "Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."
Yes, Daisy, we all are aware of how put-upon you are by my “viciousness”. It must be difficult being such a victim of imaginary crimes.

At this point, I will view future posts of this nature by you as baiting. I resent the tedious task of correcting your false assumptions about what I post and who I am.
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Last edited by Si modo; 12-23-2007 at 12:41 AM.
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