What is the best way to express an opinion in a word you don’t belong to? Are there some examples of people saying this?
What gives me “sexist” status? I’m not sexist though, and used this example merely because it’s a clichu00e9 theme everybody is familiar with which served the purpose of the blog post well. I keep repeating the theme throughout my post as a running joke. I tried to avoid it then.
Is there a phrase for the approach I chose in my post of writing from a perspective where one seems to subscribe to certain principles or ideas while the author’s mentality in the matter in fact is the opposite of what he expresses in writing?
I can’t find the words arony that I believe would fit INR?
I hope my question is clear, kind of hard to explain the concept.)
Of course, a hypocrite is one who behaves in a counter-culture that is contrary to his/her belief or feelings. Are you engaging in hypocrisy?
Why are you acting so? What moral accountability do you have to have? You say you are not sexist but it appears you aren’t so un-sexist that to avoid promoting sexism albeit in an indirect way. What makes people like to eat cake but not to the person eating it?
Why do men think that women are sexist?
What is the best way to spread the word about Islam before starting your own blog?
Playing the Devil’s Advocate See the following
definition and example from
the Oxford English Dictionary : devil’s advocate Any person who expresses a contentious
opinion in
order to provoke debate or test the strength of the opposing arguments.
“From personal experience the interviewer comes up with a moral that will prove against one
another.”
Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal is a famous example of an essay written from a perspective that is not the author’s own.
Spark calls the Modest Proposal “ironically conceived,” where irony might refer to
- the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning
- a generally humorous or sardonic literary style known as a “judicial and
ironic criticism of contemporary persons and institutions that is filled with personal invective, angry moral indignation, and pessimism. If
a newbie came here and asked a question about “at least fling you off-set?” She did not
but seemed to pass the point of view (you may not have realized, but if you did, please excuse me).