Bernie, I would rather not spend much more time on this,
but since you ask, the words in your post
comprising the innuendo suggesting
sexual violence were:
"beginning to fantasize about a certain Courtney who has so far
eluded my offensive clutches by running like the wind into various
wooded areas."
Look, your clutches are offensive, she's trying to run from them,
she's only *so far* managed to elude them, suggesting that
despite her resistance you intend to impose them on her.
Sounds like assault to me.
As for not intending it for the person who posts as Courtney
Willfore, you have replied to her on this (LGND) thread before,
exchange2000.com
so it's not too unreasonable to suppose that the post referred
to her.
I have spent some time looking over your and Courtney's posts;
I can see how someone could get annoyed by her, and she certainly
came on rude in her first appearances in this thread, and also
claimed not to have made a personal attack on Henry after a post
about (I paraphrase here here)
the distinction between legitimate research scientists and
people like H.N. who abuse their professional position for
financial gain. I was unaware of this stuff before, since I
don't read everything on this thread for obvious reasons
(especially if it sounds like it's going to be personal attacks)
I guess that was a professional, not a personal
attack. I do appreciate her attempts to vigourously question those who claim to be experts, supposing them to be sincere. It also seems possible to me that she just likes to stir up trouble.
Nevertheless, that doesn't justify, in my view, posts like
yours. I appreciate the apology on the PCYC thread and the vow
to avoid such stuff in the future, and hope that's the end of it,
and that we can all keep ourselves to an ordinary level of civility
or incivility in dealing with people who we may consider to be
annoying or even jerks. I hope this will be my last post on the
subject.
HB |
