On 8/26/2012 5:33 PM, Emily Monroe wrote:
It's probably better to avoid arguments of tone online, even if it's a tone you want to avoid yourself, because it's way too easy to misinterpret without tonal inflection, or other bits of non-verbal body language. You may have misinterpreted the tone you're trying to criticize, or they may have misinterpreted what you're trying to say.
Excellent point.
I said questionable without defining what I meant.
He said "not nice" which I took as a personal slur.
I made a joke about what I WOULD have said if I was NOT being nice.
Someone others took that as my actual position which it was not.
My actual was reaction was that PERHAPS those young guys who get their questionable jollies AfDing new articles like it was a video game had just shot down three articles of interest to women - none of which I named, merely shared the link to Feminist Wikiproject list. I didn't pay attention to who did the AfDs and didn't really think about that issue at all.
That was as far as my analysis went in the 45 seconds it took me to send the message.
Sorry for what obviously was an extreme criminal act in some people's eyes!!
Women, make sure you take at least an hour before posting here to make sure there isn't a single word - and especially no JOKES - that anyone could possible misinterpret.
CM