[Magdalen] The Deen controversy

[Marion Thompson]

It's a confort to know I'm not alone.

Marion, a pilgrim
On 9/24/2014 1:43 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
> I'm right there with you, Marion. My language won't pass muster with the
> Altar Guild either, and frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn <g> Although
> I never did release an F-bomb in front of my parents........
>
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I wouldn't survive in today's climate.  Although that sort of thing wasn't
>> tolerated at home, my mother did speak of a touch of the tar brush and of
>> priest-ridden bog Irish and such like, which to my credit I don't.
>>   However, spending a lot of years  in close proximity to the military and
>> being quick to adopt the lingua franca of whomever I associated with, I
>> have a pretty salty turn of language, much of which I don't even hear
>> myself saying, especially if caught off-guard by something.  Dear heaven, I
>> shocked an Altar Guild lady when I said that I was pissed off about
>> something.
>>
>> Oh well.  There it is.  Mea maxima culpa.
>>
>> Marion
>> On 9/24/2014 11:44 AM, M J [Mike] Logsdon wrote:
>>
>>> The complaint came from an employee. Words like this ***used
>>>>> in the workplace *** are unacceptsble IMO. And actionable-M<<<
>>> Absolutely.  But considering how "Both sides agreed to dismiss the
>>> lawsuit 'without any award of costs or fees to any party'" (Wikipedia),
>>> Food Network Etc should have been willing to accept her apology/explanation
>>> and merely monitor the situation from there, like any good network should
>>> do.  Even "Former President Jimmy Carter urged that Deen be forgiven,
>>> stating, 'I think she has been punished, perhaps overly severely, for her
>>> honesty in admitting it and for the use of the word in the distant past.
>>> She's apologized profusely'" (also Wiki).
>>> _________________________________________
>>> "O perplexed discomposition, O riddling
>>> distemper, O miserable condition of man!"
>>> - The Rev Mr John Donne
>>> (in a not-so-chipper moment)
>>> .
>>>
>>>