Holly Bush's Blog - Posts Tagged "chat-rooms"
When Women Argue
Originally published May 15, 2006
There was a recent hullaballoo at some of the message boards that got me to thinking. A poster at AAR really dissected some sentences from a new book by Adele Ashworth. Miss Ashworth responded with some measured replies. Some posters agreed, some didn't. And then . . . . . an 'anonymous author' weighed in with the sort of comment that made me and many others cringe. His/her main thread related to bothersome, nit-picky readers who demand books with few or no grammatical errors. The proverbial gloves came off. Long, technical rants about verb usage and dangling modifiers followed by many angry replies on both sides of the fence.
I couldn't help but wonder how this whole thing would have played out had the participants been men. Perhaps the argument would go as written below.
Poster # 1 "Didn't like your book."
Miss Ashworth "Oh yeah?"
Poster #1 - "Yeah."
Anonymous Author sucker punches a bystander. Riot erupts.
A single voice from the crowd - "Ya want ta get a beer?"
Poster #1 and Miss Ashworth reply in unison. -"Yeah."
There was a recent hullaballoo at some of the message boards that got me to thinking. A poster at AAR really dissected some sentences from a new book by Adele Ashworth. Miss Ashworth responded with some measured replies. Some posters agreed, some didn't. And then . . . . . an 'anonymous author' weighed in with the sort of comment that made me and many others cringe. His/her main thread related to bothersome, nit-picky readers who demand books with few or no grammatical errors. The proverbial gloves came off. Long, technical rants about verb usage and dangling modifiers followed by many angry replies on both sides of the fence.
I couldn't help but wonder how this whole thing would have played out had the participants been men. Perhaps the argument would go as written below.
Poster # 1 "Didn't like your book."
Miss Ashworth "Oh yeah?"
Poster #1 - "Yeah."
Anonymous Author sucker punches a bystander. Riot erupts.
A single voice from the crowd - "Ya want ta get a beer?"
Poster #1 and Miss Ashworth reply in unison. -"Yeah."
