Quoting Brent Wallis (brent.wallis@gmail.com):
Is this the right forum for personal political bastardry?
This to and fro goading and passive aggressive tripe is quite frankly boring....its been done before.
Brent, this phrase you are using, 'passive aggressive', I _really_ don't think it means what you think it means. As it happens, I am notorious for being painfully, excessively, ridiculously straightforward and blunt -- making me about the furthest thing from passive aggressive you are ever, ever going to encounter. I politely invited Russell to explain his meaning in his saying that, in his view, only people who've lived as female should refer to themselves as feminists. (Impliedly, I am asking by way of comparison if he also thinks that only ethnic minorities should call themselves activists against racism, if only gay people may refer to themselves as activists against anti-gay discrimination, etc.)
Hey, respect your views and respect your familial commitment but why do this here?
What 'familial commitment' are you referring to? One that you imagine me to have to my deceased mother and father? I'm entirely unclear on what you're referring to, here. _Why_ do this here? Russell suddenly pronounced, in this space, very recently, that I should not call myself a classification that I've regarded it as important to apply to myself for these past forty years. I'm simply very curious as to why. C'est tout. Wouldn't you be?