> "if you want your writing to have the effect you intended" And here's where we are in strong disagreement. You know exactly what the author meant. I know ex

> "if you want your writing to have the effect you intended" And here's where we are in strong disagreement. You know exactly what the author meant. I know exactly what the author meant. We both know that the author did not intend to offend anyone, and being a blog post, was speaking the way he would to himself or to his friends. However, the way that I see things, is that yourself, as well as others in this thread, want to make-believe that the meaning was somehow lost because the author didn't use words and phrases from the PC playbook. This is where I believe I our argument lies (and I think you'd agree). Just because you are offended, or you think someone else was offended, doesn't change what the author meant, and it hasn't prevented you from knowing what the author meant. In my opinion, the use non-PC language is a very effective tool of weeding out people who aren't good listeners.