> On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:16:14 -0400
> // ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
>
> > But still… it was a bit of fine art on your part to
> > combine friend and foe, by labelling me a sociobiologist! :-)
>
> I hereby apologize, in the most abject and categorical
> manner that you could possibly wish for.
>
> Michael J. Smith
>
It also seems to me that sometimes things said about us are really about our arguments/politics not our persons/bodies - the hair I think Joanna is trying to split. The intellectual brutality of the things my undergrad profs at an elite small college on the East Coast taught me (though not all of my classmates) to separate the two, while the culture of narrative evaluations at UC Santa Cruz taught me that lame-ass arguments/politics can be savaged more successfully when not personal.
I like Joanna's argument that some peoples' politics is expressed in their bodies/faces, however, and understand - as well - that sometimes intemperate things are said among friends that'd be ill-considered if not down-right counterproductive in other contexts. Myself, I rarely hesitate when I feel like calling a men dicks but never refer to women as cunts, sexism runs deep in many directions.