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>> Dude, you're presenting parody-fiction gonvaled shared his interpretation of the context and his opinion whilst you are engaging in the personal attack. I

• tehwalrus 13y ago
  > "gonvaled shared his interpretation of the context and his opinion whilst you are engaging in the personal attack." umm, what? I didn't use any insults, I just talked about why the user's behaviour/arguments were bad. It's criticism, yes, but it's not ad hominem, it's on the behaviour and the ideas. > "I just wonder what would be Sarah's reply to your style above" If two (almost certainly) male people on the internet can't address one another as dude, I don't know what the world is coming to[1]. Some people might object, yes (I remember a particularly pompous twitter politico who balked at me calling him "dude" on twitter in an argument) - but this is how I talk out loud, and it's not obscene it's just informal. I don't believe it conflicts in any way with what I've said about being politely robust and emphatic. > "Are you Sarah's colleague, by the way?" no, never heard of her before this incident. I find it kind of sad that you thought I might be some kind of stooge. Feminist boys do exist, you know. [1] I do occasionally use "dude" as an exclamation when talking to girls too, but it is usually in person and quite obviously sarcastic (I am British, and I say "dude" in a vaguely Californian accent, a result of listening to too much Blink 182 as a teenager I think.)