@lucillelucillelucille “Oh but you did. You even went so far as to look up an answer on a separate question.”
To show that you understood how the two issues might be connected in the public mind. That’s pretty clearly about the context of the question and the disingenuousness of the response preceding it. Exactly like I said.
“I wasn’t asking for opinions on what motivated me to ask that q”
Good thing I didn’t offer any.
“Maybe you could’ve researched Gauguin instead of me.”
My senior French project was on Gauguin. I have, in fact, researched him quite a lot.
“Having done so, your myopic view of the subject would not have been limited to the solipsistic tendencies of framing everything within the here and now.”
Again, that’s not what solipsistic means. I won’t speculate on why you continue to use the word incorrectly since you apparently cannot stand the possibility that someone might try to understand what’s going on in your mind (which is contradictory to solipsism, of course, since solipsism assumes that you can’t know another person’s mind).
“Try to be objective, less confrontational.”
Objective is precisely what I’ve been. Nor do I think I began the confrontation.
“Conversations need not be adversarial.”
Of course they don’t need to be. So why did you make this one adversarial (particularly if you didn’t want it to be)?
“Have a nice day :)”
You, too!