Re: Britney Spears: It's A Boy!

>>On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 22:07:35 -0400, Suzanne D. wrote
(in article <Df3Ye.663$845.402@xxxxxxxx>):

>
> "Aisling Willow Grey" <aisling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> Please drop the veiled insult that I and others aren't open-minded people.
>
> It's not an insult, and it's not veiled.
>
>> Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't make them closed-minded.
>
> I personally have said nothing to disagree with. However, when someone
> hears something new and strange, and immediately blows it off with insults,
> animosity, and ridicule, without even wondering about it further, this is
> being close-minded. If you want to come off as open minded, ask some
> questions that you honestly want the answer to; pose some arguments that
> make sense.<<

Suzanne, you _have_ said something that can be disagreed with. You keep
shouting "It's biology! It's fact!" but what it in fact _is_, is opinion.
Some medical researchers' (plural, please note) opinion. When people have
called you out on this, you keep insisting that no, this vague bunch of info
you've skimmed over the years while preparing slides is _right_, and even
though if it was absolutely undeniable fact we'd have heard a LOT more about
it, you simply have no room for the idea that this may only be
interpretation, like so many studies' conclusions.

This isn't like gravity, or the fact that the sun rises in the east, or that
the appendix is vestigial; this is _interpretation_ of certain fairly
flexible data.

Aisling
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