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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (89766)	11/27/2004 10:53:42 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

And it was on this thread? I'm sorry I missed it. By all means, send me the posts. Now, would you talk about someone else, while they were right there, in 3d? Do you find the behavior...problematic, or do you think it is ok? I'm curious.

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (89766)	11/27/2004 5:36:41 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Hmmm. I just posted twice on GWB thinking I was over here. I'm now going to try to switch that conversation to this thread! Sorry! But first, look what I found! This reference is clearly about me. I called you an "arch conservative," not by name, but by reference to your (surprising, to me) very negative characterization of hunters. The stereotype of anti-hunter is liberal, and of pro-hunter is conservative. The reason I mentioned your being a conservation, I stated: Three of the posts attacking Grainne's position used the word "liberal" with which to insult her. I pointed out that a conservative was her defender. An apt point, imo. The "person" was talking about me while I sat there watching. Actually, I try hard to avoid making hostile third party remarks about people. I've written many PM's to people explaining that I wouldn't respond publicly for that reason. (I am third-party trashed quite routinely.) I'm guessing that you consider "arch conservative" a hostile crack. I now confess something. I thought "arch" meant something like "strongly typical, strongly committed, super-, echt, etc." In fact, it seems to mean, according to dictionary.com, "condescending." Whoa! I love this! I can't wait until my husband comes downstairs so I can quiz him! Believe me, I'll be dining out on this misapprehension, because I'm guessing lots of people are laboring under it. However: 1) I believe calling you a conservative, though in that context not an "arch" one, it turns out, was entirely justified. It made the point that the three posts characterizing Grainne's position as "liberal" weren't unassailable, and I did not mean it as an insult. 2) I can see why you would take exception to being called a "condescending" conservative, which is what I did, in ignorance of the true meaning of "arch," but I have to say, to you directly, that in one of the posts I am going to paste on Feelies I use that very word, and the context will explain why I feel it justified. 3) You write, The subject of my own post that was indirectly referred to did not exemplify "arch-conservatism," but if anything just the opposite. Again: that was why I posted it. I believe that no one but me objected to Grainne's view being called, by three posters, "liberal," and your reply, coming from a conservative, made a good point. Re "arch": I apologize for what, because I misunderstood the meaning of the word, turned out to be a third-party characterization to which you take objection. I retroactively would like to change that to just "conservative." The "arch" characterization of your posts (to me, at least; I see no others of them) will be made directly to you! Sometime I'll comment, separately, on your views on hunters.