New subject: Slash

8 Mar 2001


      In a message dated 3/7/01 1:35:03 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
wilsonfisk2@yahoo.com writes:
<<There was a cerain element of semantic trickery and
 equivocation contained within your posts in this
 thread.<<
If that's how you justify your error in stating that sex and pornography are 
not the same thing, rather than 'the sexual act and pornography are not the 
same thing,' whatever makes you feel better about it. For the record, 
however, the person who makes the unclear statement and then defends it to 
death is the one who is manipulating semantics, not anyone struggling to 
figure out what it is that you actually meant.
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I think it was fairly clear form the initial point.<<
Obviously not, since a debate ensued over the misstatement. Why would I 
bother with the obvious, if the correct intent had been stated?
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The single word 'sex' is used frequently as a standard
euphamism for what you have term "the performance of
 the act of sex"<<
Yes, and it's also used universally to refer to gender, and to anything with 
sexual content. Just as the word 'violence' encompasses a wide range of 
activities and meanings, and we do not automatically assume it means "the act 
of violence."
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And as for "cohort" altho' Mr. Faulkner has shown, in
the course of these debates, that he is an
 intelligent, open-minded person with a skill for
 making a valid argument, I have never met nor spoken
 to him. More's the pity.<<
Look up 'cohort' in the dictionary. By no definition does the term demand 
that you have met or spoken to your cohort 'in person'.
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Well, I'll certainly take credit for some clarity,<<
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I wouldn't.<
Really? I believe I just demonstrated another clarification, immediately 
above.
Leah

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