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by diminoten 4707 days ago
Okay there's very clearly a miscommunication occurring.

Here's what I thought your argument was:

> At a company where the maturity level is sufficiently high, room names cannot be inappropriate. Specifically, these room names are not appropriate.

Here was my counter argument:

> There are certain room names which are inappropriate, regardless of the maturity of those who work at the company in which the room name exists. Specifically, these room names are inappropriate because they don't imply, but directly state sexual activity between coworkers.

I tempered my argument by saying I don't think it's something that will ultimately matter, but is certainly "weird", a term that is admittedly ambiguous. I then gave an example of such a room which would be unambiguously inappropriate, the "Employee Fuck Room". If this specific example causes you consternation, then I withdraw it. It's not important to my argument, in any event, and serves only to illustrate my point by example.

The kind of argument you're describing is not anything like what I've been saying. It's my unqualified opinion that you're reacting emotionally and putting a whole lot of other issues into this conversation which aren't relevant.

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> It's my unqualified opinion that you're reacting emotionally...

Oh, I see, so if ANYONE disagrees with you about ANYTHING EVER, it must only be because they are reacting emotionally and have no logical basis for their disagreement? Huh, REALLY? (See, I just used black-and-white thinking again... See how we could go around and around like this until the end of time? Aren't internet arguments fun? Hit me back, it's fun coming up with these.)

This isn't Reddit, we can have a civil conversation about this if you want to...
Ok, let's start over. Hello, how are you?
I'm good. I also think there are certain room names that cannot be interpreted as anything but workplace inappropriate, maturity irrespective, and that this room name is one such name.