On 4/20/07, Brock Weller brock.weller@gmail.com wrote:
Tony, my voice doesn't matter so much here, but I felt the making a fetish comment was fine. I wasn't offended, you just called it as you saw it, I'd do the same thing. Meh, NPA doesnt equal 'say nothing bad'.
It occurs to me that, on this mixed nationality mailing list containing people whose first language is not English, it is conceivable that use of the term "fetish" was seen by some readers as a bizarre allegation of sexual impropriety. It was not. For those who are still in the dark, see this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetishism
"Making a fetish" out of something is a phrase meaning to treat it as if it had unseen powers.