[Janet Kenny]

Originally Posted by Maryann Corbett

Well, this is a difficult sort of thread to step into. Some sort of behavior or habit in critique is being criticized or questioned, and the criticism is in the guise of a discussion about critique in general, although there are hints that it's really about (or was at least prompted by) something recent and specific, but I'm in the dark as to what that was.

To discuss anything sensibly, with a view to correcting what's wrong, we need examples. If there is a recent example, let's point to it. If that's awkward or embarrassing to do in public discussion, let's take it to PMs--with copies to me, please, so I can do something if needed.

Maryann,
I really did mean it as an introspective interrogation. A personal philosophical discussion about the nature of intruding into the work of other people. Nothing more than that. It may be that this is too far outside the square. I don't expect any conclusions to be reached. merely a bit of pleasant back and forth. "Wrongness" isn't in my mind. I don't know what is "wrong" and I have no complaints nor examples of bleeding corpses.