Onegin again

[Douglas Greenfield]

hear, hear!

The phrase "ad hominem argument" seems apt in this particular exchange.

Douglas

David Powelstock wrote:
> Well, thank Venus we have Webster's Dictionary. Now we can discard
> all that messy and contentious sexuality scholarship, with all its
> inconvenient distinctions and differing viewpoints. And I wonder
> which is more reductive of sexual identities, to distinguish among
> various cultural, behavioral and psychological paradigms, or to
> conflate every set of synonyms and near synonyms on the basis of a
> dictionary designed for general use. To then cast this conflation in
> terms of political correctness, attacking those who don't buy into
> this facile maneuver as "homophobic, exclusionary aggressors" is a
> self-serving and despicable perversion of liberalism. If any term
> currently in play now seems more capacious than it did yesterday, it
> is "glupets."
> 
> David
> 
> David Powelstock Asst. Prof. of Russian & East European Literatures 
> Chair, Program in Russian & East European Studies Brandeis University
>  GREA, MS 024 Waltham, MA  02454-9110 781.736.3347 (Office)
> 
> 

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