Comments on: Wording Means a Lot http://www.anwyn.com/2008/01/03/wording-means-a-lot/ Sometime editor, all-the-time mother, delivering facts, reviews, commentary, and rants. Occasionally in that order. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:55:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: BC http://www.anwyn.com/2008/01/03/wording-means-a-lot/#comment-187886 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:50:25 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2008/01/03/wording-means-a-lot/#comment-187886 "Supports traditional marriage" seems to be the normal rhetorical opposite of "opposes homosexual marriage". “Supports traditional marriage” seems to be the normal rhetorical opposite of “opposes homosexual marriage”.

]]> by: Anwyn http://www.anwyn.com/2008/01/03/wording-means-a-lot/#comment-187389 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:58:48 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2008/01/03/wording-means-a-lot/#comment-187389 I see and acknowledge your point. Honestly I wrangled awhile with a different wording other than "heterosexual marriage" and couldn't come up with one that didn't include the word "exclusive" which of course is also politically charged. I still have a problem with the captioning as it stood, though I guess not as intellectually honest a one as I would like. I.E. I so despise that abortion is currently a right that I would like at the very least to be able to put it into scare quotes, but it currently is a right and all the semantics in the world won't alter that, I guess. I see and acknowledge your point. Honestly I wrangled awhile with a different wording other than “heterosexual marriage” and couldn’t come up with one that didn’t include the word “exclusive” which of course is also politically charged.

I still have a problem with the captioning as it stood, though I guess not as intellectually honest a one as I would like. I.E. I so despise that abortion is currently a right that I would like at the very least to be able to put it into scare quotes, but it currently is a right and all the semantics in the world won’t alter that, I guess.

]]> by: Xrlq http://www.anwyn.com/2008/01/03/wording-means-a-lot/#comment-187324 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:13:54 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2008/01/03/wording-means-a-lot/#comment-187324 <blockquote>What's wrong with "Fred Thompson Supports the Right to Life and Heterosexual Marriage"?</blockquote> Plenty. "Right to life" is a politically charged phrase, the rhetorical mirror image of saying one supports or opposes the "right to choose." No word or phrase relating to that topic is perfectly neutral, but "abortion rights" is about as neutral as it gets. As to "supports heterosexual marriage," c'mon, that one doesn't even pass the laugh test. Show me a person who does <i>not</i> support heterosexual marriage, and I'll show you a radical nutcase who is in no danger of becoming our 44th (or 45th, or 46th...) President. The question isn't who supports or opposes heterosexual marriage, it's over who supports or opposes its non-heterosexual counterpart.

What’s wrong with “Fred Thompson Supports the Right to Life and Heterosexual Marriage”?

Plenty. “Right to life” is a politically charged phrase, the rhetorical mirror image of saying one supports or opposes the “right to choose.” No word or phrase relating to that topic is perfectly neutral, but “abortion rights” is about as neutral as it gets.

As to “supports heterosexual marriage,” c’mon, that one doesn’t even pass the laugh test. Show me a person who does not support heterosexual marriage, and I’ll show you a radical nutcase who is in no danger of becoming our 44th (or 45th, or 46th…) President. The question isn’t who supports or opposes heterosexual marriage, it’s over who supports or opposes its non-heterosexual counterpart.

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