Well, another cowardly attack...

[malthaussen]

2. Oh, I don't think you were attacked by cowards

Or harpies, if it comes to that. Funny how certain epithets are useable in polite discourse, and others are not. Since your post was contested in open forum (as well as in the Group That Shall Not Be Named), "cowardly" would seem to be a reach. Well, perhaps your definition differs from mine.

Now, if you want to call Cheney a coward, you won't get an argument from me. But so far as I am able to determine, that isn't under question. And by conservative count, there have been a hundred or so posts calling for Cheney's head, but the only objection has been to the use of sexist terminology in the thread in question. Given the lack of objection to the other 99 threads, what, I wonder, could have caused the reaction to this one? Somehow, I doubt many denizens of DU consider the use of a word to be more criminal than Cheney's actions. Perhaps you exaggerate or misinterpret the import of the posts written in opposition to the use of a sexist term. And you might want to reconsider your own use of sexist characterization, unless of course your motive is more to salve offended amour propre than have a discussion.

-- Mal