http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:49:07 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/12/29/201217.php#comment-259866 Al, I don't recall having seen this post. I'm impressed with your patience and concern. While I can offer no effective therapy for racial paranoia such as you faced, I must congratulate you on your attempts to aleviate (or at least ameliorate) the suffering of your patients here. Noble effort, indeed. On my own website, there was sincere protest from animal lovers that the gorilla was abused. Gorillas are aesthetically beautiful, and it was horribly insensitive on my part to have referenced one in a negative way. Nursing animals became part of the thread as well, and I was rebuked for implying something was improprietous or unbeautiful by making such a reference to nursing animals. So, you see, there was something to offend all. But it was I who was not allowed to be offended by Janet Jackson's act, nor to express degree of offense I felt. That's my impression of the objections. 259866@blogcritics.org Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:49:07 EDT