[self-interest] Re: Improvement proposals

[Stephen De Gabrielle]

Someone please remove the offensive post.

Kind regards

Stephen


On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 at 01:06, Russell Allen mail at russell-allen.com
[self-interest] <self-interest at yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> Argh. It’s morning here and I am under-coffeed.
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> This is a multinational mailing list - so far to my knowledge we’ve had
> Americans, Australians, New Zealanders and Germans giving their input.
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> In a professional and welcoming environment, which Self should be, the
> cultural norm is not to talk about contentious and possibly upsetting
> topics, or to talk in a way which will make people feel excluded. This
> includes trying to be aware of other people’s cultural norms as well as
> your own.
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> The precise details of these cultural norms is a fascinating topic which I
> encourage people to discuss in depth in a warm and friendly manner on some
> other mailing list which I don’t have to read.
>
> Bystroushaak, I know you’re feeling defensive but the simplest way to get
> back to talking about Self is if you could just edit the blog post to
> remove the gif and reference to dancing girls. If you can’t, I’m happy to
> do it for you.
>
> Russell
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> On 20 Jun 2016, at 8:52 AM, Bystroushaak bystrousak at kitakitsune.org
> [self-interest] <self-interest at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Dne 20.6.2016 v 00:30 Derrell Piper ddp at electric-loft.org
> [self-interest] napsal(a):
> > I hope I speak for most Americans when I say that joking about women
> > being 'whores' is not appropriate in any context in 2016.
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> I don't understand. You don't have woman 'whores' in America, or you
> just don't joke about them? Is this some kind of a tabu? Or is this
> misunderstanding, that you think that I implied, that all woman are
> whores? (I hope I did not, but the language barrier is there, so I can't
> be really sure.)
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> Here, on the other part of the globe, dancing whores (and approximation
> of such) wouldn't be considered rude. My friend actually publicly
> stated, that he want dancing whores at his funeral several times and no
> one really cared.
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Kind regards,
Stephen
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