I wasn't aware that the discussion of belly-dancing involved any argument whatsoever, or involved anything reminding anybody of anything, or had anything whatsoever to do with the subject of the Iranian elections.
You kind of have the habit of assuming that everybody is interested in the same things you are. Kind of like you assume that the people who write the books on Iran you're reading are representative of the concerns of the Iranian population, which oddly enough seem to coincide with your concerns. About the great importance of gender-segregated swimming pools. Or anything involving gender.
--- On Sat, 6/27/09, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
> I miss Yoshie too. At least Yoshie didn't engage in such
> sleazy debate tactics. She made an actual argument to
> support her case, rather than using tactics common in a
> courtroom: "oh, look! shiny!" "belly dancing, reminds me of
> country line-dancing. [insert troll comment to get convo
> sidetracked]" and the handwave, "statistical thumbsucking",
> etc.
>