Agreed -- I don't think discussing male pain provides much insight into female pain (at least not as expressed in the essay), and vice versa. This feeling of difference-in-kind is perhaps why these topics are hard to discuss at all.
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Sure, and I appreciate you took my comment in good faith. It wasn't intended as a personal attack. I didn't see your comment as an attempt to shove the discussion aside, but I do feel like one way discussions work is that people, if given an opening, will take advantage of it...
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...for example, this thread. I mentioned some topics and people latched onto those in particular (likely because they already had things they wanted to share about them), even though they weren't related to the point/idea I was trying to make/explore.https://twitter.com/simpolism/status/944759631343243264 …
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well, case in point, this was my reply in that threadhttps://twitter.com/danlistensto/status/944805578739765248 …
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which WAS NOT an attempt to derail or reframe the discussion, but I guess you didn't want to talk about that aspect of the topic
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To clarify further from that discussion, my point was to get into a discussion about how concepts/language constructs are related to another on an abstract level. I chose the examples I did because they have deep internal lexicons, not because I cared specifically about them.
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I thought that's what I was talking about too but water under the bridge
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Probably just a communication failure, then. I also wrote my original post in a sufficiently unclear manner that made it harder to determine what sort of discussion I wanted to have, so yeah I'd say water under the bridge.
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