Noreen,

People take me the wrong way because they choose to look at me through self-imposed filters on what I say. I've let enough of it go unchallenged that there is quite a lot of misconception about what I actually do in the world and how I think about things.

If you want to characterize that as arguing, feel free, but I think of it as correcting a sloppy and skewed record, and speaking for myself instead of allowing the negtivity of others to stand in my place.

If you want to get into how many people do or do not take offense at how I write, and what I write about, the numbers are with me, BTW-- I just happen to be enough of an adult to encourage my friends to stay out of the fray when someone starts it up as you did with your post.

I am perfectly happy to take responsibility for what I say and what I mean. But I am all done taking responsibility for what people want to insist I must have meant because they are hampered from a good view by their blinders.

~Susan