B_big dirigible
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"Throwing like a girl" is a very distinctive act - hell, it could probably be spotted in photos from space - and the name is an accurate and universally understood description. There are other types of throwing which are also clearly identifiable. The most common would probably be throwing like a chimpanze. I know of one anthropologist who has written that the two are the same, and then went on to speculate that prehominids could only throw the same way, but I disagree on both counts. In any case, the best that chimps can manage is a sort of sideways swing. This is not to imply that it is an inferior technique - some major league baseball pitchers do very well with it - but it is definitely distinctive. It's called throwing like a chimpanze rather than throwing like a major league pitcher because it's not at all typical of major league pitching. It is typical of major league chimpanze throwing. There may be a chimp somewhere who throws things like I toss a throwing knife, but if so he has yet to be described in the literature.By referring to it as "argues like a girl," one automatically assumes (incorrectly if I'm reading your explanation in the manner you meant it) that you're contrasting it with arguing like a boy/man. The reason for this is probably that the phrase that it's derived from is "throws like a girl" which is used against men (and women) derisively. I'd rather you call it something else, but hey, it's your headspace, not mine.
"Arguing like a girl" seemed more appropriate to the forum and the topic than any other concise label, and perfectly accurate. I need to call it something, and that something should be less than a paragraph in length. I avoid things which can be misinterpreted when dealing with psychotics, as explained at tedious length above. But I shouldn't have to do it in every goddamn post.
You don't see what I'm saying if you read any "good" or "bad" judgements into it. My descripions were just that - descriptions. Anything else is in the eye of the beholder, and there only.At any rate, I do see what you're saying. One would hope that you'd have some good categories in there to balance out the bad instead of just "other."