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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (50589)	8/11/1999 1:24:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

<<<Offended? No, depending on your definition of offend.>>> This seems to change the subject from the one I actually intended to be asking about to the meaning of the word offend. I understand that 'offend' has a specific meaning, so let me find out what I am wondering about by using words you feel do sometimes apply to your feelings instead of the (cliche-) word I chose. So, forget 'offend,' and tell me, unless you're too bored to by now, whether you find only CH's posts stupid or disgusting, or do you find some of the other posts I've mentioned disgusting, too? For example, did you feel as though you were walking in dog doo, and express disgust, over Cobe's (to me, amusing) "my nipples are hard" post, or to any of the other anatomically descriptive posts, or mentions of hot sexual experiences, or erections, or female genital lubrication, or orgasms, we've seen here? If my memory is correct, there was one mention of pre-coital fluid here. And there was some series here or on rambi about butchering and cooking human beings and eating them, which I missed; but although they may have been a charming conceit, for all I know, they do sound much more disgusting, tasteless, stupid, sophomoric, and, especially, creepy, to use your adjectives, than were CH's self-consciously silly sex-play posts with Edwarda. The reason I raise it again is that what i was interested in wasn't the applicability of the word 'offense' to your disgust, but about whether any of the other sexual or scatological or anatomical or coarse and brutal (if that's a fair description of the butchering posts) have (say) disgusted you enough to cause you to say so in a public (or private) post. The figure in my carpet, of course, is that it seems to me CH is being held to a unique standard. Well, at least is, in essence, being (meanly) called disgusting for more 'innocent' material than I think (but correct me; I'm asking) others have ever been held to. By you or anyone else. There may be some defensiveness on my part, here. I've stepped over your line myself, from time to time, I'm sure; though I didn't know it at the time, and you never told me.