Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: The "ideology" thing

[Wayne Tyson (landrest]

Katie Henry and CoHo:

Polite is an option, not a requirement.

'Twas not my intention to twist KH's message. Should she care to be specific 
with regard to just which statement(s) caused her to come to her 
interpretation and by what logic, I'll be glad to respond. However, I don't 
know how to respond to rhetorical questions and statements. She has every 
right to express herself as she wishes, as I presume, I do.

I thought my post was supportive of hers, and positive with regard to unions 
and CoHo. I still do. I am mystified by her response.

WT


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Katie Henry" <katie-henry [at] att.net>
To: <cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ The "ideology" thing


> Wayne Tyson wrote:
>
> > I hope that cohousing continues to evolve toward cooperation
> > rather than competition, responsibility rather than entitlement,
> > and an active sympathy rather than dismissive pity.
>
> Wayne, you completely twisted the point of my message. (I'm assuming that 
> you're
> responding to my message about cohousing ideology that started this 
> thread.)
>
> I belong to several associations, both professional and for social/medical
> causes. I expect these associations to focus on their mission and not get
> derailed by unrelated issues that may or may not be important to some or 
> all of
> the association's members. Would I expect the Society for Technical
> Communication (my professional association) to work to stop the clubbing 
> of baby
> seals? Should the Alliance for the Mentally Ill be involved in keeping 
> abortion
> legal? Failing to focus on the mission is a good way for an association to
> sputter out, lose the support of its members, and become irrelevant. The 
> fact
> that I feel this way does not mean that I don't have "active sympathy" for 
> union
> members.
>
> Also, I have a big problem with the tone of your messages. You keep 
> posting
> these strange, leading questions about excessive rules and 
> authoritarianism, and
> using terms like "competition," "entitlement," and "dismissive pity." You 
> seem
> to be digging for dirt and looking for proof that cohousing is not all 
> warm and
> fuzzy and wonderful as it's claimed to be. What exactly is your agenda for 
> being
> here on Coho-L?
>
> Katie Henry
> (former cohouser, so I don't have to be polite any more)
>
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