I have managed to seriously offend somebody by asking them whether they need to be at

[Ash]

I think the accusation is that I was downplaying their significance to the process (as I do with all women). Naturally I am hurt at such an accusation and now feel as though I am being attacked.

In all fairness you don't give the impression of being particularly keen on women overall. Obviously I'd hate to judge before all the facts are in but it might not be beyond the realms of possibility that some of your latent, erm, misogyny pops out to the surface now and again. I have never had the mansplaining word directed at me be any of my lady-on-lady-action colleagues when I am explaining how certain things work.

No offence, like. I wouldn't want you to have to relive your experience of being under attack all over again.

[Burney]

In all fairness you don't give the impression of being particularly keen on women overall. Obviously I'd hate to judge before all the facts are in but it might not be beyond the realms of possibility that some of your latent, erm, misogyny pops out to the surface now and again. I have never had the mansplaining word directed at me be any of my lady-on-lady-action colleagues when I am explaining how certain things work.

No offence, like. I wouldn't want you to have to relive your experience of being under attack all over again.

I think p is a misanthrope rather than a misogynist. He's an equal-opportunity miserable cùnt.

Love you, p

Oh, and you probably don't get the mansplaining thing because you have an acknowledged area of expertise.

[Peter]

In all fairness you don't give the impression of being particularly keen on women overall. Obviously I'd hate to judge before all the facts are in but it might not be beyond the realms of possibility that some of your latent, erm, misogyny pops out to the surface now and again. I have never had the mansplaining word directed at me be any of my lady-on-lady-action colleagues when I am explaining how certain things work.

No offence, like. I wouldn't want you to have to relive your experience of being under attack all over again.

I think what you see of me on here is a reaction to the sheer amount of effort I have to put in on an hourly basis just to maintain a reasonable and healthy working relationship with some of these people……

I don’t dislike women at all. Some of my best friends are women. Well, one, actually. And she does hate women, but then most women do, don’t they. That’s just what they are like- all of them.

As a rule, the lezzas like me because I treat them the same as I do everybody- with mild, light-hearted contempt.

The problem isn’t my attitude to women, its my impatience with people’s hang ups, touchiness and personal bull****. My response to what I was going to do about her being offended was ‘well, she will just have to be offended, won’t she’…. It’s not my problem at all. None of my business, in fact.

[Burney]

I think what you see of me on here is a reaction to the sheer amount of effort I have to put in on an hourly basis just to maintain a reasonable and healthy working relationship with some of these people……

I don’t dislike women at all. Some of my best friends are women. Well, one, actually. And she does hate women, but then most women do, don’t they. That’s just what they are like- all of them.

As a rule, the lezzas like me because I treat them the same as I do everybody- with mild, light-hearted contempt.

The problem isn’t my attitude to women, its my impatience with people’s hang ups, touchiness and personal bull****. My response to what I was going to do about her being offended was ‘well, she will just have to be offended, won’t she’…. It’s not my problem at all. None of my business, in fact.

Yes, but for the sort of people who spend their time being offended, letting you know how offended they are is sort of the point.

[Peter]

Yes, but for the sort of people who spend their time being offended, letting you know how offended they are is sort of the point.

Of course, and for people like me, letting them know that I don’t care whether they are offended or not is entirely the point. Which they obviously find terribly offensive.

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