Re: [UUPoly-L] Books

["CWLee" <cwlee@post.harvard.edu>]

"Jason B." <brithistorian@gmail.com> wrote, in response to 
my comment "Sounds like another inappropriate commercial 
plug to me." that:

> I've got to disagree with you here - I think Jenny's book 
> is perfectly
> relevant to the situation at hand, plus she also included 
> a number of
> other useful resources.  If she had been responding to a 
> general
> question with "You can find the answer to that in my 
> book...," I'd
> agree with you.  But since the question was specifically 
> asking for
> books, websites, and other information, I think her post 
> was perfectly
> okay.  Should she be disqualified from recommending the 
> book just
> because she wrote it?  I don't think so.

Reasonable people may disagree on many topics, and this is 
certainly one of them.  If she had modestly mentioned her 
book, and several other books, I would have been less 
offended.  But, when she included:

       Read the latest "Sex Talk with Jenny Block" at: 
(link)

       Read her work in The Dallas Voice: (link)

       and on edgedallas.com (link)

       See her on Fox News at: (link)

her post took on, for me, the aura of a commercial for 
herself.  That is the part that I find most offensive on 
this list.  I hear lots of commercials on the radio every 
day, and that is fine with me.  On the other hand, in 
personal social conversations it is very rare for someone to 
jump in and push his business to his friends and neighbors. 
I have always thought of this list as more of a group of 
friends, neighbors, and distant relatives.

Shall we agree to disagree?

Best regards, Chuck Lee.
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CWLee
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