Heteronormative?! HETERONORMATIVE??! - Page 3

Voltron87 · #21 03-03-2005, 12:40 PM

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``Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career,'' she said. ``They say you gotta choose. Nah, nah, nah. We are a new generation of women. We got to set a new standard of rules around here. You can do whatever it is you want. All you have to do is want it.''

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Wait, wait... is this what they got pissed off about? I really, really, really hate political college students. Especially the Ivy League ones.

jakethebake · #22 03-03-2005, 12:42 PM

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Dumb article, no info on what she actually said?

Don't dumb down, please. I got bitched at in a similar way during an argument. Being literate is not a crime.

NT

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I agree 100%. But let's try to remember that the purpose of language is to communicate. And people that use language to try to sound smarter than everyone else, usually accomplish the opposite.

nothumb · #23 03-03-2005, 12:55 PM

Wow.

Would have been much more inspirational if she had said, "You can have it all: a great career, a loving partner, or, in this state, a spouse of any gender or identity, great children fathered either by your hetero life partner or another man and inserted into the uterus of your spouse, and a boxy Volvo with a Meat is Murder sticker that frat boys will try to scrape off."

NT

maryfield48 · #24 03-03-2005, 01:39 PM

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Dumb article, no info on what she actually said?

Don't dumb down, please. I got bitched at in a similar way during an argument. Being literate is not a crime.

NT

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I agree 100%. But let's try to remember that the purpose of language is to communicate. And people that use language to try to sound smarter than everyone else, usually accomplish the opposite.

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Some times language is employed precisely for the purpose of trying to sound smarter than everyone else.

Even on these forums.

Rushmore · #25 03-03-2005, 01:40 PM

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I agree 100%. But let's try to remember that the purpose of language is to communicate. And people that use language to try to sound smarter than everyone else, usually accomplish the opposite.

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For better or worse, I need to explain that I am absolutely NOT trying to sound smarter than everyone else. The words I use are not extravagant or even particularly interesting to me, to be honest.

I think I grew up in a household that played a lot of Scrabble, read a lot of books, and appreciated the English language. I suppose it rubbed off on me.

I'll tell you, when I hang out with the few friends I have, I feel like an illiterate monkey. For better or worse, I have friends who are college professors, writers and other assorted brainiacs. They happen to speak with a bit of flair, you might say.

I will take the repeated advice to heart, though, and make sure not to appear as if trying to impress with my use of the language.

What else could I be expected to say to this? I'm trying to be gracious without being overly (solicitous). Please take this post in the honest spirit in which it was written.

NOTE: I couldn't for the life of me think of another way to say solicitous.

jakethebake · #26 03-03-2005, 01:40 PM

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Dumb article, no info on what she actually said? Don't dumb down, please. I got bitched at in a similar way during an argument. Being literate is not a crime. NT

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I agree 100%. But let's try to remember that the purpose of language is to communicate. And people that use language to try to sound smarter than everyone else, usually accomplish the opposite.

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Some times language is employed precisely for the purpose of trying to sound smarter than everyone else. Even on these forums.

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Especially on these forums. That was pretty deep. You're obviously way smarter than I am. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

andyfox · #27 03-03-2005, 01:58 PM

How silly the whole to-do is. What did they think she'd talk about, nuclear non-proliferation in the Middle East? She's a professional actress married to Will Smith so chances are she'd talk about that, no? If those comments made people "uncomfortable," we should send 'em Zeno to really upset 'em. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

jakethebake · #28 03-03-2005, 02:01 PM

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For better or worse, I need to explain that I am absolutely NOT trying to sound smarter than everyone else. The words I use are not extravagant or even particularly interesting to me, to be honest.

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I wasn't talking about you. I was talking about heteronormative.

Rushmore · #29 03-03-2005, 02:19 PM

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I wasn't talking about you. I was talking about heteronormative

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Oh, man.

You see, the other poster was talking about me, so, etc etc.

My point about heteronormative in the original post was that I think it's just a made up word crafted by someone with an agenda.

Duke · #30 03-03-2005, 02:23 PM

It's easier to converse with only a few people at once, because then you have a better idea of their working vocabularies, and can therefore stick to words present in them.

When someone uses a word that I'm not familiar with, I usually just ask what it means. I think that's because I'm not embarassed by my lack of vocabulary and am more interested in expanding it further than in getting angry that someone inadvertently pointed out a single point of ignorance I posess.

~D