Re: CHAT: mental masturbation

dunn patrick w wrote:
>
> On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Tom Wier wrote:
>
> > Brian Betty wrote:
> >
> > > "This is NOT the place to discuss this."
And Brian Maloney:
> > >
> > > Don't get uppity. Sorry that we can make a joke about something unless it's
> > > about sex, in which case everyone panics.
It's not about sex, as others have pointed out.  The Charyean Brothel
Song
translations were sexy as hell.  It's about attitude, Brian.  I went
back
and checked the last flame war that broke out on our list around late
March, and you were at the center of that.  You've made yourself the Bad
Boy of the list, and that is why there is low tolerance for your
off-color
initial remark and especially your slightly hostile responses to that
lack
of tolerance.  Your first remark wasn't especially offensive, in my
opinion.
In fact, somebody else had already responded to Matt's comment about his
psychiatrist friend with much the same sentiment (so what does a
*psychiatrist
have against masturbation?  ha ha"),  but it went without comment.
It's just that you came in with this weeks later, and everyone still
remembers
your hostility of March.  I guess that's just the way it is.  Hostility
breeds hostility.  I'm deleting anything else I see of yours, because it
seems to me that you aren't as interested in issues of language as you
are
in slightly inflammatory political or social debates.  I joined this
list
to escape that.

Sally