Theos-Talk Archives (August 1998 Message tt00465)

Jake wrote:

>     As the apparently personal letter to you referred to was posted on
Theos-
>talk and he doesn't mention a wife/companion, I wonder why  you call Marshall
>Heminway III ("SutratmaN")  "him/her".  Unless I'm misreading, its a rather
>nasty thing to do isn't it?

Why in this great world of pies and ice cream is it a nasty thing to do -
referring to someone as him/her if one is not sure?  I use the nickname
"Rilke" who is a guy, but I am a girl - who would know?  Kym (Kim) is a
common male name for those of Asian background. Besides, for someone like
Dallas who utilizes the male pronoun way too often I was right pleased to
see a 'him/her' in one of his posts.

>        I tried seeing if he was on AOL, but got "no such screen-name" -
so he
>may have cancelled it after your post revealing his anonymity - which I don't
>much care for, but guess is his right.  A rather strange thing to motivations
>all around.

It doesn't appear to me that Dallas was the one who revealed Marshall
Heminway (Hemingway?) III's real identity.  Looks like it came from the
author, rather than the replier.  And most of us often pretend we are
something we are not - and for some of us, that is a good thing.

Let's not get our panties bunched without further look-sees.

>               -  Jake J
>            ".... to defend those unjustly accused (or hasseled)"

Well, whaddya know - me too.  (although I'm assuming that by "hasseled" you
mean "hassled.")


Kym