On 9/25/14, 6:12 AM, lolilolicon wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Pierre Gaston <pierre.gas...@gmail.com> > wrote: >>> In any event, this is but irrelevant to the discussion. Do not seize the >>> red herring. >> >> >> It is fully relevant when you use a sexist stereotype as an argument. > > No, I didn't use a sexist stereotype "as an argument". Remove that > sentence and nothing changes of my argument.
Even if you use it as a rhetorical device, it distracts from (and detracts from) your argument. It doesn't improve the quality of the discussion, so it's best not to use it. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/