Reply #55: St. John's in one of five Great Books Colleges in this country....

[shondradawson]

there are four others.

I do not think telling you I attended a Great Books college and my vision of the world would impress you anymore than you believed telling me you were an attorney and your vision of the world would impress me.

If you are unimpressed with my expression and my ideas, I am sorry for it. I am unimpressed by your "bedside manner" I could presume you use when representing the women and children who have been battered. I could doubt you are an attorney, and doubt the statistics you gave, that you also did not reference. I could doubt that you know any St. John's graduates or that you really care about the injustice in the criminal system. But I willing to believe you are a better man in a different space and company; perhaps you can believe I am a better writer in a different space and company.

I wonder where your disdain for books and libraries comes from...several of your comments are rather shocking, given your stated profession.

I did not set up a thesis where women are always victims and men are always bad. I am aware of the difference between meaning and implication. I am aware that meanings are not open to interpretation, though implications are...

To suggest that I am setting up such a thesis is an implication: but it is not what my post means. Read the post again. Should you come to the same conclusion, you have left me with no choice but to believe you reply only to defy and dismiss any statement I make, any truths I give you, while asking for more. Why? You are not interested in a civil exchange: you have made this very clear.

If you think me in the wrong, you may. I do not mind. What I mind is your peculiar persistence to prove it, but only by making me retract my statements, confess my lies, so to speak. Why didn't you spend more time giving examples, references of your own, to prove where I was wrong, rather than vulcanize your counterpoint with vituperation? Why didn't you consider that I may share the same great concern for good people who have bad things happen to them, and want to do my part to resolve the causes, direct and indirect, of the indignities they suffer?

You considered none of this, and tell me I am the one lost on the subject? Ye gads! Your last exchanges contain nothing but personal attacks that have nothing to do with the subject of my post at all. I have read what you think of me and what you think of yourself, but nothing about the crime of rape and the sexist elements that still make it difficult to bring it to justice. Yes, even to bring the false accusations of rape to justice.

I thank the other posts for taking the time to comment on the matter and not on me.

"Honesty, integrity, a willingness to embrace the ideas of others that might expand your own are all things I cherish, and you exhibit none of them..."

Indeed! (sigh)


Good night, all..