You're going to have to help me out here because something keeps happening and I don't know why. It's happened twice in this post alone.
What you said was that every time people's opinions were asked, it turns to opinions about drugs. You made an absolute statement. You said "every time". What I said in my post was these words: "This isn't the case for everybody".
My struggle is why my statements are seen as I'm talking about everybody despite me saying, "This isn't the case for everybody" and this being used as a point of contention whereas your reply actually does use the words "Every time".
I'm not picking on you, by the way. I actually want to know because I suspect it's something to do with hyperbole. Some countries do tend to exaggerate with language (for instance, having an ice cold Coke is not "awesome" to me. Awesome would be pretty much reserved for the end of the world only. Awe is about the most powerful feeling and perhaps never happens during an average lifetime). My country, on the other hand, is known to have a peculiar way of understating things so that most of the world doesn't realise how strongly we sometimes feel and that we often say it by being very understated indeed.
While I've got you here, though, and this is still fresh in both our minds, I wondered if we can sort it out. Because I really don't want to be mistunderstood and I'm obviously saying something that is causing me to be. I try to be really careful with words (because so many nationalities use this site) but words I'm using are either being misread or skipped over. What'd be really useful would be to know how you would have phrased the sentence where I was talking about some people (and had a caveat that I didn't mean everyone). I'm imagining you'd have written it a different way. This is mainly because I get into these long conversations with people and they're pointless because we already agree.
When I made that 'absolute statement' that every discussion about sex work ends up on drugs I wasn't referring to you in particular, I was talking about every thread I've ever read on it. Sorry if I didn't make that clear.
Like I said, sex work is a symptom of drugs but not visa versa so to me, bringing up drugs in a discussion about sex work seems totally out of place as apposed to bringing up sex work in a discussion about drugs which I feel would be totaly relevant.
I only made that comment at the end of my first reply in the hope that you would comment on what I said about us all being for sale in one way or another but unfortunately it had the reverse affect.
Oh, no, I did get that you were referring to every discussion about sex work, not just ones involving you or me. I brought up drugs because it was relevant to a minority of discussions in that it's relevant to me. I never meant it was relevant to a discussion by two people in, say, Mumbai. What I'm curious about is why it seemed like that's what I was saying when I wasn't implying it but you were.
Like I said, it's happened twice in this post so it's must be something I'm doing.
What do you think of sex work?
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You're going to have to help me out here because something keeps happening and I don't know why. It's happened twice in this post alone.
What you said was that every time people's opinions were asked, it turns to opinions about drugs. You made an absolute statement. You said "every time". What I said in my post was these words: "This isn't the case for everybody".
My struggle is why my statements are seen as I'm talking about everybody despite me saying, "This isn't the case for everybody" and this being used as a point of contention whereas your reply actually does use the words "Every time".
I'm not picking on you, by the way. I actually want to know because I suspect it's something to do with hyperbole. Some countries do tend to exaggerate with language (for instance, having an ice cold Coke is not "awesome" to me. Awesome would be pretty much reserved for the end of the world only. Awe is about the most powerful feeling and perhaps never happens during an average lifetime). My country, on the other hand, is known to have a peculiar way of understating things so that most of the world doesn't realise how strongly we sometimes feel and that we often say it by being very understated indeed.
While I've got you here, though, and this is still fresh in both our minds, I wondered if we can sort it out. Because I really don't want to be mistunderstood and I'm obviously saying something that is causing me to be. I try to be really careful with words (because so many nationalities use this site) but words I'm using are either being misread or skipped over. What'd be really useful would be to know how you would have phrased the sentence where I was talking about some people (and had a caveat that I didn't mean everyone). I'm imagining you'd have written it a different way. This is mainly because I get into these long conversations with people and they're pointless because we already agree.
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When I made that 'absolute statement' that every discussion about sex work ends up on drugs I wasn't referring to you in particular, I was talking about every thread I've ever read on it. Sorry if I didn't make that clear.
Like I said, sex work is a symptom of drugs but not visa versa so to me, bringing up drugs in a discussion about sex work seems totally out of place as apposed to bringing up sex work in a discussion about drugs which I feel would be totaly relevant.
I only made that comment at the end of my first reply in the hope that you would comment on what I said about us all being for sale in one way or another but unfortunately it had the reverse affect.
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Oh, no, I did get that you were referring to every discussion about sex work, not just ones involving you or me. I brought up drugs because it was relevant to a minority of discussions in that it's relevant to me. I never meant it was relevant to a discussion by two people in, say, Mumbai. What I'm curious about is why it seemed like that's what I was saying when I wasn't implying it but you were.
Like I said, it's happened twice in this post so it's must be something I'm doing.