comparing v. equating

[bord_du_rasoir]

It's been my experience that people don't like for me to make comparisons because they assume my comparisons virtually equate the two people or things being compared or at least they assume comparison is one slippery-slope step away from equating (but it's really nothing of this sort

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[bord_du_rasoir]

Je ne comprend pas the Buffalo reference.

Comparing is not at all comparable to equating!!! And if you so much as imply that it is, then prepare to FEEL MY WRATH- or something, I don't know.

[bord_du_rasoir]

This comment makes me want to smash things. I have no idea what's going on.
I am Mr. Jones in the Thin Man Ballad.

You raise up your head
And you ask, "Is this where it is?"
And somebody points to you and says
"It's his"
And you say, "What's mine?"
And somebody else says, "Where what is?"
And you say, "Oh my God
Am I here all alone?"

Oh, did you see the sin-a-steez-ee-ack Chris posted about?
(correct spellings & links to come)

[elfwreck]

I've been hit with that.

ME: I think A is like B, because A and B both share trait X.

OTHER: A is absolutely not the same as B! How dare you say so! Trait X is a minor thing, and you are totally ignoring traits Y, Z, and Q, which absolutely prove that A is not B and if you had half a brain, you'd know that!

I keep a mental list of A's and B's that gather this reaction, and don't make those comparisons in public anymore.

[bord_du_rasoir]

I get what you're describing aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall the time, because my brain & mouth are seemingly set-up moreso than other brain-mouth combos to think and mention pretty tangential esoteric associations between people and things.