Re: Community standards (was Re: [PLUG] What next? and small, > rant [VMware on Ubuntu])

[Eric <eric@lucii.org>]

Greg:

I disagree with a number of your points but that's okay.  We'll have to agree to
disagree because the remark in question was apologized for and this thread
should be closed.

Then we can all hope that we'll have to wait at least another 10 years for
something like this to happen again!

Peace
Eric



Greg Helledy wrote:
> 
> 
>> Sadly, I must add a small bit to this thread before it dies the good  and
>> natural death...
>>
>> Bingo.  Matt is correct... context.  The remark had an offensive
>> connotation in
>> a work or mixed group setting and should not be posted here.  The
>> poster has
>> apologized [profusely, I might add] and suggested we move on.  I agree.
>>
>> By the way... I offer to the guys that keep saying "it means to marry
>> a stripper
>> and make her a wife - what's wrong with that?" that you spend a short
>> amount of
>> time with an English dictionary:
>>
>>     http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mount
>>        [See: definition 3 for the verb mount]
>>
>> and/or
>>
>>     http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
>>        then click mount[2,verb] in the listbox and [See: 1(b)2]
>>
>> ... as if you did not already know.
>>
>>
>> Eric
> 
> If *context* is what's relevant here, then it's hard to see how "mount"
> is offensive.  http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mount gives eleven
> definitions (plus subdefinitions) for the transitive verb mount.  Only
> one of them has anything to do with sex.  I doubt that when the mount
> command was written, it was intended to analogize copulation, and I
> don't think that's what the joke writer had in mind, either.
> 
> Similarly, http://www.thefreedictionary.com/stripper contains four
> definitions, only one of which refers to a dancer and none of which
> refer to women.
> 
> Just about anything can be turned into potentially-offensive sexual
> innuendo if you work at it.  Eliminating all potentially-offensive
> speech comes pretty close to eliminating speech.
> 
> Greg Helledy
> 


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