Is the other blog also somewhat inclined to poetry?
No, I don’t believe anyone has ever accused it of that. The focus is on philosophy of biology but when it occasionally shifts to politics, this gentleman will offer metaphoric watercress sandwiches whenever euphemistic language grows too sparse in the comments. Clever fellows, those Brits.
A problem with the storm of indignation approach is that it can be unclear to people on the receiving end just what is unacceptable.
It sure can. However, it is quite clear to the person receiving the indignation that something was really unacceptable. Whereupon, the person notices that the problem is quite possibly in himself, rather than in a few people with weird chromosomes who just can’t seem to see things from a male point of view, so he takes off his preachers collar, dispenses his martyr’s cloak, puts on a student’s sandals, and asks a simple question, “WTF just happened?”
It is at that point in the process, when someone is actually listening, that a reasonable community provides explanation. The same explanations, incidentally, which had been provided a half dozen times before, only to be ignored or discounted.
Speaking from experience of watching the storm of indignation approach (on a much larger and more elaborate scale than happened here), the actual effect can be fear of speaking at all. About anything.
I didn’t post to livejournal at all for months after Racefail got started, and I still don’t do reviews. I may start doing reviews in the forseeable future.
I feel as though I might be a refugee from a damaged culture who brought some of the bad practices to a new home.
It sure can. However, it is quite clear to the person receiving the indignation that something was really unacceptable. Whereupon, the person notices that the problem is quite possibly in himself, rather than in a few people with weird chromosomes who just can’t seem to see things from a male point of view, so he takes off his preachers collar, dispenses his martyr’s cloak, puts on a student’s sandals, and asks a simple question, “WTF just happened?”
In my experience, this only happens when a person is already unsure of themselves, otherwise they just dig in harder and listen less, not more.
(Also, in scientific experiments, people are generally shown to become more certain of their opinions when met with resistance.)
No, I don’t believe anyone has ever accused it of that. The focus is on philosophy of biology but when it occasionally shifts to politics, this gentleman will offer metaphoric watercress sandwiches whenever euphemistic language grows too sparse in the comments. Clever fellows, those Brits.
It sure can. However, it is quite clear to the person receiving the indignation that something was really unacceptable. Whereupon, the person notices that the problem is quite possibly in himself, rather than in a few people with weird chromosomes who just can’t seem to see things from a male point of view, so he takes off his preachers collar, dispenses his martyr’s cloak, puts on a student’s sandals, and asks a simple question, “WTF just happened?”
It is at that point in the process, when someone is actually listening, that a reasonable community provides explanation. The same explanations, incidentally, which had been provided a half dozen times before, only to be ignored or discounted.
Speaking from experience of watching the storm of indignation approach (on a much larger and more elaborate scale than happened here), the actual effect can be fear of speaking at all. About anything.
I didn’t post to livejournal at all for months after Racefail got started, and I still don’t do reviews. I may start doing reviews in the forseeable future.
I feel as though I might be a refugee from a damaged culture who brought some of the bad practices to a new home.
In my experience, this only happens when a person is already unsure of themselves, otherwise they just dig in harder and listen less, not more.
(Also, in scientific experiments, people are generally shown to become more certain of their opinions when met with resistance.)