quote: I think that "GUEST: Tony" is being very aggressive and confrontational in his posts aimed at Flora and that this is unnecessary.

I joined the discussion about the word "youngster" only because someone had said he personally felt patronized by it, and also said that several other people had already said the same thing. And I did so in mild terms not offensive toward anyone, and only to apologize to them for what I said was surely an unintended slight. The comment wasn't addressed to Flora and wasn't pejorative toward her. There was no need for her to answer it and to call the issue trivial and to say she didn't care what anyone thought of the word.