If we apply Feminist Deconstruction to this statement, it could appear that the speaker does in fact believe that when a woman disagrees with a man she is behaving in a very unseemly and unwomanly way. So yep, BR.
Sorry, but I'm pretty sure only you would come to that conclusion, as most other people know that it is not only possible but extremely easy to disagree with someone without mocking them or appearing arrogant.
Does this mean that if I was a man, it would be alright to disagree with you?
I think I've said enough things in this thread already for you to pick up on that inventing things I've said is entirely unneccessary. Anyone is free to disagree with anyone else, whether they're man, women, or indeed a mixture of the two or gender neutral. I also think I've already established that I don't consider acting in a mocking and arrogant manner to be smart, no matter what gender you are. EDIT: oh, and yes I may well often act in a mocking and arrogant manner - but then, I don't think I ever claimed to be especially smart. If at any point I did, that just proves I'm not.
Only if the rules are the same for everyone. If one group is expected to be wise, tactful, polite and nice while the other group get to slag off whomsoever they please and behave however it takes their fancy, then being polite and diplomatic = subservient. And is no fun either.
If you think the only ways to slag off other people or misbehave is to mock and act arrogantly, you must be incredibily socially inexperienced.
So you believe trusting people to be at least remotely honest is not common sense. You should probably get that looked at.
So you believe that everyone you meet on the internet is precisely who and what they claim to be? That's incredibly nieve, and you should probably get that looked out.
It's hardly Eral's fault that you haven't met any women.
I knew someone would try to use that argument, but sadly for you I happen to have several female friends, not to mention the fact I've lived with close to 20 female flatmates over the years. I'd supply photos for evidence, but since believing anything anyone else tells you without question is apparently part of common sense, there seems no need.
As for your logic. "I've only ever seen men talk like that, thus only men can talk like that."
YOU FAIL AT LOGIC + PHILOSIPHY. Seriously. Stupidest. Argument. Ever.
AND YOU FAIL AT READING, LOGIC, PHILOSOPHY (only one 'i' BTW) AND DEBATING Pretending the other person said something which he didn't is not a good arguing tactic, however much politicians might wish it were. If you would care to go back and read my earlier posts as I actually wrote them and not as you seem to have pretended I wrote them, you'll note I merely used the fact that I've never seen women write like that as reason for thinking Eral might be a man, because women tend not to act like that; not once did I say that women are physically/mentally/emotionally incapable of writing like that.
So...we're not allowed to agree with the Administration?
Oh you're allowed to (as my posts in this very thread demonstrate), but they'd much prefer it if you didn't.
Despite the fact that they very rarely moderate anything. (certainly not in EFCB anyhow, which is my main haunt. I'm here for the people!)
Depends entirely on how you define moderation. I'd personally call getting several moderators to taunt, deride and be downright hostile to people who express differing points of view to those of certain members of staff to be a form of moderation, but I understand that some people (mostly those who engage in the activity) do not.
Or maybe we're not allowed to be friends with the administration? Is that it? Is poor little Nightmare feeling lonely and wants to share the misery around? Aww.
As I said in reply to Eral, I've come out with enough in this thread for you to take issue with already, that inventing extra things I've said is completely unneccessary.
oh now, be fair,Vel. He was saying he hadn't met any women who can write. 
Hold on, are you saying that it's impossible for any woman to write without doing so it a mocking and arrogant manner? If so... wow. Just... wow.
This is a very, very silly accusation.
It's only silly if it's untrue. I'm fairly confident it isn't.
Eral has never hesitated to express herself, whether she agrees of disagrees with a person. She's no shrinking violet or anyone's minion. It's part of her charm.
Replace "Eral" with "SimDing0", "Ghreyfain", "Icelus", etc and you still have an accurate description. Apart from the not being anyone's minion part, obviously.
For crying out loud, Eral has her photo in our PPG album. She's voiced two female roles and sung in the Keto mod.
In another gaming community I'm a member of, so far no less than five* people who've claimed to be women have eventually either admitted to being a man or been exposed (if you'll pardon the phrase) as one. And yes, some of them had posted photos which they claim to be of themselves; taking a picture of a friend, relative or girl you're stalking and claiming that it's you isn't exactly hard. Neither is persuading a women you know to do some voice acting, and then telling other people you did it.
Statistically speaking, the chances that not even a single member of the IE community who claims to be female is lying are so low as to be practically non-existant. The most reliable method to tell is behavioural observation, since men do tend to act in certain ways that women usually don't, and visa versa. Note that I am *not* saying things men tend to do are superior to those women tend to do, I am merely pointing out that they are different - much as noting that white people can have a wide variety of natural hair colours, and black people tend to be natural brunettes is in no way, shape or form racist. The goal of equality should be to celebrate rather than berate our differences, not pretend they don't even exist.
* Five might not sound that many, but then not many women are members of that community - unless of course there are lots of women pretending to be men.
Casting doubts is one thing. Willfully being an ignorant buffoon under the delusion that it's clever is apparently your recurring role here.
Like I said, "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em". Or to put it in a couple of different ways, "it's time to fight fire with fire", "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth", etc.
That's sort of the thing. Once in a while I enjoy a good argument. Not to say that this past round has been terribly good.
Of course - you guys absolutely adore launching scathing attacks, but can't stand it if someone directs one at you. I'm admittedly quite suprised about that, since Sim has invited me to post my criticisms of moderation here at PPG more than once. I guess we must disagree on what is and isn't moderation.
