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To: SteveH

sometimes, when cornered, a woman will say, it’s not what you say, but how you say it that i object to.

this is often followed by, your argument is too (insert arbitrary adjective here).

choices include:

too long
too short
too complex
too simple
too difficult to understand
too simplistic

this is like Goldilocks and the three bears, but without the just right resolution. Sometimes the argument is simply that it is not quite right in some sense, while not in fact bothering to nail down quite what property is being called for, how much in quantity, and why that property and that exact quantity is necessary as well as sufficient to be granted respectability. When I hear this argument I feel a need to control the urge to tell the woman who uses this argument to go make me a sandwich and get me a beer while they are at it. LOL


152 posted on 09/03/2021 1:12:53 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: SteveH

so, you can come up with the most logical reasoning in the world, but it fails to convince a woman because it is too long and her mind wandered, and you should never argue so long that a woman’s mind is left to wander.

if however you cut your argument by dropping some of the more obvious logic (the type of reasoning that typically puts most people to sleep), a woman can then say that your argument makes no sense because it does not logically progress when presented from beginning to end. Thus your argument is too short.

So you start again, aiming for a supposedly happy medium, by which time some women are likely to stomp away in a huff. Too long! Too short! You’ve wasted too much of my time with your reasoning which is either too long or too short! Either you leave or I do!

(note: some examples of this behavior can be found on this thread.)


153 posted on 09/03/2021 1:20:32 AM PDT by SteveH
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