your relating to the person whos chastizing her? Isn't that a bit insensitive?
If they consider those books as 'kiddy porn' they seem to be using the word porn as a shameful thing. I wonder whether they themselves view porn as that would make them a monumental hypocrit.
No one has any right to view their taste as superior to another persons, it goes back to all the positives I got on the 'is it wrong to view yourself as worth more than someone else'.
This person probably knows jack shit about your area of speciality. Why dont you dis them when they haven't heard of Fodor or Pinker or a comparably arcane yet pivitol cognitive text , they then might realise the error of their judgemental treatment of you.
Many people read and do meaningless unconstructive things for pleasure and enjoyment. I think playing a computer game is just as much a waste of time than reading a pulpy romance. Oh and the argument that it enhances perceptual skill I counter that with any type of reading improves spelling and grammer.
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Date: 2005-06-07 08:39 am (UTC)If they consider those books as 'kiddy porn' they seem to be using the word porn as a shameful thing. I wonder whether they themselves view porn as that would make them a monumental hypocrit.
No one has any right to view their taste as superior to another persons, it goes back to all the positives I got on the 'is it wrong to view yourself as worth more than someone else'.
This person probably knows jack shit about your area of speciality. Why dont you dis them when they haven't heard of Fodor or Pinker or a comparably arcane yet pivitol cognitive text , they then might realise the error of their judgemental treatment of you.
Many people read and do meaningless unconstructive things for pleasure and enjoyment. I think playing a computer game is just as much a waste of time than reading a pulpy romance. Oh and the argument that it enhances perceptual skill I counter that with any type of reading improves spelling and grammer.
so :P 40