Actually, "I'm sorry I said that" would have worked nicely. "I'm sorry that you took me seriously" places the onus on the offended, not the offender. In any case, the issue is much larger than you alone, it is at least as much about the responses of those who leapt to the defense of something that is indefensible. As for "attacking" you, it was you who began the assault, even if you did not mean it, and I and others who took issue with you comments have every right to point out the foolhardiness of those comments.
On 11/25/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Jim Schuler wrote:
I find it sad that someone feels the need to have a separate mailing
list
for women. Gender bias is an issue that touches all of us and should be discussed openly by *all of us. *As KC noted, separate but equal is a farce: it is merely separate, not equal, for in the act of separation
power
is ceded to the majority, a majority that is often boorish and smug in
its
ignorance.
It is also sad that when some of the men here spoke out in defence of
women,
they were attacked for piling on (the offender had slinked off without
so
much as an apology)
Do you think I'm proud of what I said? Do you think I actually meant it? Do you think that continuing to attack me would have helped the situation? Do you think that there was any apology I could have give that wouldn't have been just brushed off as insincere?
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