For example, you interpret the post as saying, “metoo has never gone too far.”
What the post actually said was, “I’ve heard people complain that it ‘goes too far,’ but in my experience the cases referred to that way tend to be cases where someone… didn’t endure much in the way of additional consequences.”
I read that sentence that as much more limited in scope than your interpretation. (And because it says ‘tend’ and not ‘never’, supplying a couple of data points isn’t enough information, by itself, to challenge the author’s conclusion.)
In addition, you interpreted “metoo” as broadly meaning action against those accused of sexual misconduct.
However, the author interprets “metoo” more narrowly, as meaning action against those accused of sexual misconduct that would otherwise not have occurred in a counterfactual world without the #metoo movement that took off in 2017.
So in the end you didn’t seem to disagree with the author’s point, just their word usage.
I can empathize why the author wasn’t eager to sustain the interaction with you. You used words differently and asked a bunch of questions asking the author to explain themselves. The author may have logically perceived the conversation as a cost, not a benefit.
This is my perception of your conversation. I hope it is helpful to you.
I didn’t perceive either of you as hostile.
I think you each used words differently.
For example, you interpret the post as saying, “metoo has never gone too far.”
What the post actually said was, “I’ve heard people complain that it ‘goes too far,’ but in my experience the cases referred to that way tend to be cases where someone… didn’t endure much in the way of additional consequences.”
I read that sentence that as much more limited in scope than your interpretation. (And because it says ‘tend’ and not ‘never’, supplying a couple of data points isn’t enough information, by itself, to challenge the author’s conclusion.)
In addition, you interpreted “metoo” as broadly meaning action against those accused of sexual misconduct.
However, the author interprets “metoo” more narrowly, as meaning action against those accused of sexual misconduct that would otherwise not have occurred in a counterfactual world without the #metoo movement that took off in 2017.
So in the end you didn’t seem to disagree with the author’s point, just their word usage.
I can empathize why the author wasn’t eager to sustain the interaction with you. You used words differently and asked a bunch of questions asking the author to explain themselves. The author may have logically perceived the conversation as a cost, not a benefit.
This is my perception of your conversation. I hope it is helpful to you.