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> I inadvertently posted a private comment about you to the entire list. > > It was thoughtless, tactless, and rude. Not at all - dont worry :-) I probably had it coming to me - even I am beginning to wonder why I'm prepared to defend to the death Peter Singer's right to make a complete ass of himself. I was being thoughtless, tactless and rude myself. We'd be a strange kind of group if we didnt gossip amongst ourselves. I think we should all confess - which of us ISNT embroiled in an offlist "faction" , who amongst us had never had a bitchy word to say about anyone else here? It's always a relief to read other's bloopers because then you get to find out what people are really thinking, which can only be helpful in the long run. I think there are structural problems with this list which forces a lot of issues "underground" though. I've been thinking of starting a new kind of Disability list - something more post-modern if you like, something to bridge the divide between academics and non-academics - which takes as its opening premise that we are all full of contradictions, which wont hold us to a fixed identity, that allows for both intellect and emotion and anger and parody - that has room for people in the disability community to address each other in a variety of different lingos without structurally turning it into conflict when they do, that allows for different cognitive styles. I've hit on a very exciting and clever way of doing it... but I need some time to set it up... > Clearly, my cognitive impairments are interfering with appropriate list > behavior, and I will withdraw for a time. See my other post - I hope you're not really going to withdraw, I presume you're joking, but to take it seriously, if we cant be here with our "cognitive impairments" where can we be? Judy %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%