don’t hold backShodan, tell us how you really feel.
Regards,
wring
This thread was started by Andy about his not liking to be called annoying for his annoying hijacks. I think this hijack has more bearing on the OP then the other hijack in the thread that prompted this thread. See? Makes perfect sense.
Plus all the other stuff. Train wreck? Why there was jack-bootery, snarkiness, a visit from many of the local hall monitors, suspensions, bannings, jackassosities, suspicious mewbies, namecalling. . . the melodrama was actually dizzing at times. I say BRAVO one and all.
Please describe what a suspicious “Mewbie” is. I always love to read this sort of thing, I mean, it isn’t like everyone here where the family of three bears and suddently “Someones been eating my pourage, someones been sleeping in MY bed”. hehe…this is a MESSAGE BOARD. WE’RE ALL SUSPICIOUS. LMAO!!!
Oh my God, Shodan. I pray I never end up on your bad side. Still, I must admit that was a thing of beauty.
::Men at Work golf clap::
I better not - I might say something rude.
Regards,
Shodan
Won’t do it. I just don’t like you enough. I think you can figure it out yourself. Unless you’re stupider than your posts make you appear.
I agree! This thread has EVERYTHING! Well, except for a good recipe for banana nut bread.
If I were stupid the whole slur directed at me would have been lost in ** Showdans** piece of art.
Go back to sleep (ALS pats Biggirl on the head and pats her bum, and off she goes like the useful idiot she is).
Thanks for playing.
I’m getting a keen new book from Amazon today: How to Win Friends and Influence People in under 30 Posts, by Achilles Last Stand.
Dang thing’s on backorder, though.
Oh joy! Do you really mean it, ** dantheman**?
No, it doesn’t. And this is a very stupid point. Would you also like to tell me that, unlike a mosquito, you lack an exoskeleton?
Daniel
Daniel, can you recognize when someone is simply ribbing you? Maybe not, all the world is a mosquito, Daniel, yes, a mosquito it surely is.
Yeah, Shodan, whatever. I just love the anti-feminist whining. Funny how the anti-feminsts always bitch about the feminists, but they do more than enough whining themselves. Must hurt to get troll a feminist board and not even be a good enough troll, huh?
Banana Nut Bread:
1 cup sugar
1 stick butter
2 eggs
Cream butter and sugar together until fluffy. Add eggs and beat well.
4 mushy mashed bananas
Add to the butter mixture and beat well.
Mix together:
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
Gently fold flour mixture into butter mixture. Add:
1/2 cup pecans or walnuts.
Pour batter into loaf pan. Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 50 minutes or until cake tester inserted in middle of loaf comes out clean.
Eat with cream cheese, butter, or sharp cheddar cheese. Be happy.
Daniel
I’m male. I’m a registered member on the Ms. Board, although I don’t post there much. I do understand their position, having been a participant on a dozen-plus feminist message boards and email lists and newsgroups which were not officially restricted to people who did not want to trash the entire feminist agenda wholesale – and we spent about 30% of our time and energy replying to people who would post things ranging from the nontrollish but oblivious “Well I don’t see why you need to be ‘feminist’ OR ‘masculinist’ why can’t you just be ‘humanist’, why are you people in favor of female superiority that seems just as wrong?” all the way over to “You ballbreaking castrating bitches aren’t foolin nobody you say you want equality but you want to make men bow down and be subservent to women and my preacher is right things just work better when the husband is in charge and women have periods and shouldn’t be president or boss of corporations since you can have babies and we can’t that’s only fair anyhow”.
But because those boards and newsgroups and email lists were open to these things (and we’d reply to them and counter their opinions and rip up their arguments, a necessity if the forum were not to become their forum instead), it was a place where we had spirited and provocative discussions that started with things like whether or not feminist women should put time and energy into making the draft egalitarian or addressing anti-male biases in child custody and support, should refrain from doing so but be passively supportive of men’s groups which did, or be totally tacit on the subjects; and whether or not to actively oppose, quietly condemn, or be totally tacit w/ regards to women’s groups if they embraced female-protectionist laws or policies if such existed – lots of debate about when and where “feminism” means pro-woman and when it means pro-equality and when it means anti-patriarchy, and how to address the little eddys and counter-currents where these three things did not overlap in simple and straightforward ways.
But, you see, usually they do. And having “a room of their own” to discuss feminist material without having to hear challenges that feminism itself is guilty of various unfairnesses and victimizations, or at least inconsistencies and ideological shortcomings is a very good thing for women who are just starting to dare to think that feminism might be righteous, might be a good thing, after a lifetime of hearing nothing but challenges to feminism, indictments of feminism as a horrible twisted ideology that only man-hating unnatural life-hating sour sick bitches ever get involved in. So, insofar as Ms. has made such a rule, they’ve established such a space and good for them. But yes, it makes it too bland for me, and many of you here would find the “safe room” restriction an effrontery.
What the fuck does that mean? Learn to use commas, achilles, learn basic grammatical structures, and then try saying non-stupid things with your newfound knowledge.
I know you’re trying to annoy me. Did you think I was unclear on that?
Daniel
Cool. Now I’ll stop reading this thread. It can only go downhill from here.
I know that I have read, yes READ, at Ms. and I have seen women, yes, women, get run out on a rail because they dared to think feminism might be good for them, too. These women did not go on the MS. boards to espouse their support for the patriarchy, but be supportive of women and not womyn, or wimmin. Effrontery, yes, shameless and arrogant.
Let’s see here.
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A self-proclaimed victim of childhood sex abuse starts a thread in which she Pits people who use their abuse as an excuse for illegal actions.
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She claims that, since people can choose what they will or will not do, citing abuse cannot be a valid excuse.
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She mentions that she doesn’t believe she can bring up charges against her abuser, as she made certain statements to her abuser’s lawyer while the abuser was in the room with her.
By her own reasoning, she is utterly responsible for lying to the lawyer, as she could have made the choice to tell the truth. Of course, we understand that her fear and intimidation resulting from the abuse is a factor – but she denies that abuse can excuse a person’s actions.
She is thus expecting compassion and consideration that she denies to others.
And when I point this out – good ol’ Coldfire enters, tells me not to post in the thread again, and threatens me with explusion from the boards. I’d violated no rule of the Pit, or of the boards in general, but in Coldfire’s prejudiced opinion I was being a jerk for “attacking” an emotionally defenseless victim.
Admit it, your personal feelings drove you to abuse your authority as Mod.
Look a Pier One!