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[Dill]

(11-21-2018, 09:14 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Who knew it would come to a semantics argument. 

Appearance means visible from the outside.

But I do learn a lot in this forum. For instance a couple days ago I got a lesson in the use of quotations,  yesterday i learned choices cannot be mistakes. and today I learned making fun of how someone looks on the outside is not making fun of their appearance.

PnR the gift that keeps on giving

That's what happens when for most people criticism of "appearance" means facial beauty with reference to criticisms of the FLOTUS--an issue raised by people, for example, calling Michelle Obama a "gorilla," which you of course do not agree with. Or when Trump tweeted an unflattering picture of Ted Cruz's wife alongside Melania or said that a woman with a face like Carly's could not be president.

This become a "semantics argument" as soon as you expand this notion of appearance to mean the overly general "visible from the outside," including clothing choices, the criticism of which most would not place in the same category as criticizing a woman's face. Once you did that, your argument was trading on two different notions of "appearance."

Criticism of women's facial features is almost always misogynistic (certainly it is in all the Trump examples above), but criticizing a woman's choice of coat, or whether to wear one, rarely is.

Duly noted?