(late reply to late reply, but I couldn't let this one go)
'I think it's fair game to complain about indirect, passive-aggressive communication techniques and the people who use them"
Good grief. No. Just no. Not when the "people who use them" are generalized (maeon3 didn't even hedge with "tend to" like you did) to half the species.
Sorry, that's not objective argumentation, it's plain bigotry.
Would you have stepped up in the same way if he had jumped into to say the darkies are lazy and dumb? That the muslim faith is evil?
I'll just repeat my original "yikes" and leave it at that. People like you make me sad for humanity.
I don't think he implied anywhere that all or even most women (mis-) communicate that way, but rather that most people who mis-communicate that way are women. That is a fair observation, and similar comments about men largely pass without comment.
The original post has been edited, but the phrasing was "some women [do this], so I punish them for it". And he went on to use the female pronouns throughout. It was a rant, not an argument. And there wasn't even a tiny nod to the idea that anyone other than a woman would be so afflicted.
'I think it's fair game to complain about indirect, passive-aggressive communication techniques and the people who use them"
Good grief. No. Just no. Not when the "people who use them" are generalized (maeon3 didn't even hedge with "tend to" like you did) to half the species.
Sorry, that's not objective argumentation, it's plain bigotry.
Would you have stepped up in the same way if he had jumped into to say the darkies are lazy and dumb? That the muslim faith is evil?
I'll just repeat my original "yikes" and leave it at that. People like you make me sad for humanity.