Ad hominem attacks (was Possible Change to the Main List Settings)

[Haggridd]

--- In HPFGU-Feedback at yahoogroups.com, "Amy Z" <lupinesque at y...> 
wrote:
> Haggridd wrote:
> 
> 
> > I object to the gender bias of the term "ad hominem attack".  In 
> > this day when pieces of furniture-- chairs--  preside over 
> meetings 
> > instead of chairmen, and there are no more actresses, only 
> actors, 
> > why can we not use the more specific term, "ad feminem" attack 
> when 
> > we are gunning for a human being with a 46XX chromosomal 
> complement?
> 
> Why, Haggridd, you've turned into an ad feminist.  Will wonders 
> never cease.
> 
> :-P
> Amy Z

Hast thou not heard of the concept "reductio ad absurdum?"

Haggis