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Bah Larry Send a noteboard - 14/09/2009 01:09:10 AM
I almost said "it was implied," but that suggests that it was your intention to imply it.

Anyway. Saying "I must read some female authors" is a quota, if a particularly loosely-defined one. It's only a "loaded term" in the context of starting an argument about it, I find.

But I can certainly understand why he might have taken that implication from your post. So suggesting that it springs from some sort of deficit in his character... well, it strikes me as sort of ingenuous.


Not a "deficit" at all, but at worst a missed opportunity is what I would have thought in such cases. That and I like to occasionally employ "bandwagon" techniques to sway people from time to time ;)
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

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This board is severely lacking in discussion of female authors Larry - 12/09/2009 08:11:46 AM 1420 Views
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The most popular author in the world is female. *NM* Haggard - 15/09/2009 03:34:27 AM 417 Views
Incorrect. Werthead - 15/09/2009 04:14:06 PM 983 Views
You might want to edit that... jh - 15/09/2009 04:40:32 PM 1030 Views
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... That doesn't actually change the truth-value of his statement. *NM* Craig - 16/09/2009 05:31:30 AM 479 Views
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I've heard she's written a little slash. True? *NM* rebelaessedai - 16/09/2009 01:53:58 AM 398 Views
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This post is severely lacking in discussion of male authors. *NM* TaskmasterJack - 15/09/2009 04:42:23 PM 568 Views
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