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<blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 5562137" data-attributes="member: 15538">I thought you might comment on how you resolve the apparent contradiction between:1. Believing fairy tales are supposed to be empowering2. But not empowering people who want to play female warriorsIt's not really a yes-or-no question. Unless, I suppose, you just said, &quot;No,&quot; which would seem to contradict yourself beyond recovery. But the sparest &quot;Yes,&quot; answer I can conceive of is, &quot;Yes, pawsplay, is there some reason you imagine this would be a difficult question for me to tackle?&quot; in which I case I reply with basically what I just said.I am granting that you do have an answer, with which you are apparently satisfied, that you are capable of expressing it, and that you are interested in furthering the discussion in this thread. I cannot fathom how I could possibly be more charitable, short of simply agreeing with you.It is not insulting. If I were not interested in your opinion, I wouldn't bother asking you for it. I certainly wouldn't bother trying to tease it out of you, in the hope that your uncooperative response is simply a sign that I have triggered some level of defensiveness, rather than a complete inability or unwillingness on your part to address what I see to be the heart of this controversy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pawsplay, post: 5562137, member: 15538"] I thought you might comment on how you resolve the apparent contradiction between: 1. Believing fairy tales are supposed to be empowering 2. But not empowering people who want to play female warriors It's not really a yes-or-no question. Unless, I suppose, you just said, "No," which would seem to contradict yourself beyond recovery. But the sparest "Yes," answer I can conceive of is, "Yes, pawsplay, is there some reason you imagine this would be a difficult question for me to tackle?" in which I case I reply with basically what I just said. I am granting that you do have an answer, with which you are apparently satisfied, that you are capable of expressing it, and that you are interested in furthering the discussion in this thread. I cannot fathom how I could possibly be more charitable, short of simply agreeing with you. It is not insulting. If I were not interested in your opinion, I wouldn't bother asking you for it. I certainly wouldn't bother trying to tease it out of you, in the hope that your uncooperative response is simply a sign that I have triggered some level of defensiveness, rather than a complete inability or unwillingness on your part to address what I see to be the heart of this controversy. [/QUOTE]

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