[Callers] That g word

[Chris Page via Callers]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Aahz Maruch via Callers <
callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> Sounds like you're policing what other people choose to spend their time
> on.  Oddly enough, I've seen comments like yours countless times when the
> subject lands on sexism, racism, homophobia, and so on.  What I find
> especially interesting is that these types of comments are louder when
> it's a subject that isn't "generally recognized" to be hurtful.  In my
> own lifetime, I've watched the discussion shift significantly when the
> subject is homophobia, and I currently watch appalled as fatphobia is
> still considered acceptable (with constant deprecatory comments similar
> to yours).
>


Or we're just tired of hearing the same arguments back and forth. Does one
person's sixth email on the same topic really help?

(See also long conversations from October 2015, November 2015, and hundreds
of Facebook posts.)

There's times when you reach a point where you won't convince each other
for now. Meanwhile it drowns out a once productive list into raw noise.

I'm now skimming the archives back from a few years ago, and miss the days
when there was more discussion of various topics. The list was originally
created to well, to do this:

http://www.sharedweight.net/index.php?pagestate=about

Curmudgeonly,
-Chris Page
San Diego, CA
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