There’s considerable disagreement as to whether Justice Scalia is a homophobe. Some people believe that he is – and I take no position on whether he is or not – but certainly it’s true that there’s no scientific answer to that question at this point in time.
I also take no position on whether doorhinge was being deliberately obtuse in his replies to me in this thread. Maybe you’d have to be a complete idiot to fail to recognize that asking a question and suggesting both sides might be true is not always a neutral statement, or maybe not, who can say?
Some people would say you’d have to have your head pretty far up your own ass not to understand these rhetorical games, and some people wouldn’t say that. I’m just giving both sides of the argument so I can hear what my fellow Dopers have to say in response.
Obtuseness or clarity is beside the point. The purpose of such statements is to vent the pain the writer feels at having the Overton Window slammed shut on his fingers.
You know, it’d be much more in the spirit of the thread if you suggested it might be an “all out hoovering of goat genitalia”, but caprid gonadal suction being a relatively new area of scientific study, more data is needed.
Well, I came for the speculation. Honestly, I wish it were possible to have IMHO-style threads on topics like “How will the Supreme Court rule on X?” GD is terrible for my blood pressure.
Knowing that zoid has no opinion of me personally, and not just my thread which might or might not be pointless, kind of makes me want to post something awesome to win him or her over.
I may or may not be frozen in the face of this pressure.