Comments on: Responsible Postings

By: dogbert

dogbert — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 22:36:36 +0000

Considering how many times I have been lectured by Koreans on how Americans, to the man, disrespect their elderly relatives, in clear contrast to Koreans, each of whom displays laudable “filial piety”, I can understand the sentiment.

By: robertneff103

robertneff103 — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 19:51:10 +0000

Dear Woman -
Again I offer my apologies because I obviously offended you. To be honest, if the writer had been a male I would have said kid instead of man. Again there is no offense intended with the word “kid,” it is actually a reference to his youth. I am sure however, that you realize this sometimes comes up in Korean dramas and comedies. A person inadvertantly addresses a woman as ????¤Œ?§? instead of ????°€?”¨ or they address a student as ????°€?”¨ instead of ??™???. I was hoping that people would have read the earlier apologies and give me the benefit of the doubt and take it for what it was intended as - a compliment of youth. As you/we grow older we generally tend to desire one thing - youth again, and we are ever envious of those who are still in their youth.

Again, please accept my apologies for offending you - the intent of the article was not to offend the young woman/student that wrote the article but instead to enlist support for her efforts and to counter some of the truly immature and assine comments made about her article.

Wishing you the best
Robert Neff

By: Nathan Bauman

Nathan Bauman — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 11:30:53 +0000

He already apologized–twice! It’s also a private site where the owner and his sidekicks can say what they like. We may make suggestions, but if we don’t like it, we can go elsewhere….

By: woman

woman — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 02:25:55 +0000

Hi Mr Neff, Do you have somthing against calling a woman , a woman, or are all women girls, young girls children etc. If she is over 18 (19) in korea she is a woman. Maybe that ruins your idea that all women are children or (young girls) as you assumed. (by the way, how many children in korea get published in the Korea times). I am glad you fixed your comments, but does that make it OK. Its infantizing women. its the same kind of discrimination as rasism.

By: robertneff103

robertneff103 — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 08:33:25 +0000

Thanks - I removed and replaced the “young girl” part. Again, it was my mistake and probably a sign that old age is creeping (ok - rushing) up on me
Robert Neff

By: Nathan Bauman

Nathan Bauman — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 05:40:04 +0000

I wasn’t don’t worry! I just thought it was important enough to clarify. But perhaps you might remove the actual insult from the main page…? Anyway, good job to you and your two blogging colleagues here–I visit everyday.

By: dda

dda — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 12:25:07 +0000

Okay, I think we got it now…

By: wooj

wooj — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 09:30:33 +0000

The Pythi Master says:

1. Much confusing, your author names still are. Perhaps in a larger font, should your names be displayed.
(The post was written by Robert Neff, not the Marmot, my Padawan Learners!)

2. Much spam do I sense in your comments. Spam is the path to the Dark Side of the Force. Spam leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering… Better spam control, you must install.

By: robertneff103

robertneff103 — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 08:41:45 +0000

Nathan,
You are indeed correct - I think that is a sure sign of my own age showing when I can refer to a young woman as a young girl. My apologies if any were offended.

By: Nathan Bauman

Nathan Bauman — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 06:32:13 +0000

Ah, two things:

1) The writer is a young woman, not a “young girl”–I went over to the site thinking it was a twelve year old girl who was writing! In fact, she’s an undergraduate student.

2) Now that several people (including me), have left comments on that thread specifying our origin, the young woman may find out about the insult from the Marmot’s Hole, and not from the thread itself, which has deleted the offending post. Perhaps the Marmot or someone else here could simply bracket out the offending message in this post as “[gratuitous insult deleted]“.