I was going to post a review tonight, but this morning I got clever and wrote a post on Quora about stating opinions clearly and without apology, or conditionals.
In my many years of posting here, I have received any number of personal insults, accusations of not “doing the research” (which I consider ridiculous on the face of it, an opinion on a comic, no matter how ill-informed, does not need “research,”) and the most typical of all, I have been called a “bitch,” more times than I can count. Yesterday I began a review with an apology and for that, I was scolded by my wife. I thought about it last night and in the morning, I wrote this post on Quora:
Why I am no longer “Thinking,” “Feeling” or “Believing” on Quora
I hope you will all read it and please feel free to let me know what you think!
I’ve been trained as an experimental physicist. To do this well requires extreme respect for error statistics. Only a theoretical physicist is sure of things, and that less frequently than you might expect.
This leads to use of qualifiers and references regarding facts. Nothing gender-related here.
When it comes to opinions, that’s a different breed of onion. Few Vidalias among my opinions!
@Ellen – That’s totally valid, of course. And I make a point of of stating that my opinions are opinions and being transparent about my biases, as well.