# Do I sound angry to you too (probably mild)? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 10, 2006, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-sound-angry-to-you-too-probably-mild/368169 "2006-08-10T16:08:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Random)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-sound-angry-to-you-too-probably-mild/368169/101 "2006-08-13T21:13:18Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] I’d like to see a cite for some of those other threads. [/QUOTE] Here’s a couple. First, an exerpt from here: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=7438473&highlight=monstro#post7438473](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=7438473&highlight=monstro#post7438473) Post #906 > [@Weirddave](#): > > Now for Monstro. I don’t know weather YWTF found herself on the ropes and called for backup, or if the experience of seeing her sister bitch slapped all around this thread was so unplesant that she felt compelled to leap in (I know I’d feel bad if my sister was beeing as big a wanker as YWTF has been in this thread, but I also hope that I’d be objective enough to go to her and tell her with love that she was flat out wrong), but I do know that what we’ve gotten from monstro has been nothing more than a more virulent parroting of what YWTF has been saying all along. First of all, she sets out in post # [874](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7436468&postcount=874) to selectively highlight some of Huerta’s posts and destroys her own credibility in the process. Lets look at what she posted, her highlights are in green and what she failed to highlight is in orange: > > [Long list of color-coded mischaracterizations snipped, because I can’t C+P them here: see above link for details] > > Man, I’ve seen selective quoting before, but rarely such an example of selective quoting that also manages to demonstrate so conclusively the bias that the poster doing the quoting is bringing to the table in the first place! > > * * * > > You are ignoring what a poster actually said in favor of your preconceived notions (read back up for orange text to see more of this). Sorry monstro, that won’t fly here. If you don’t want to address what is actually posted, don’t bother replying. > > * * * > > Instead you attempt to change the argument and then attack the changes you’ve made. That’s called a S-T-R-A-W-M-A-N. > Finally, there are these two nuggets of I don’t know what. Gall, certainly, and delusion too I think: > > [note: Weirddave’s quote of Monstro in blue] > > My questions to you were posed with calm prose and respect. You don’t know how to answer them without conceding your point, and instead of saying, “I don’t agree with all you’ve said, but at least you’ve given me something to chew over”, you get whiny and claim I’ve misconstrued your argument . You haven’t even made an argument, Weirddave. And I’ve quoted you directly, so how can I misconstrue what you’ve said? > > * * * > > 1. Misconstrue your opponents arguments, while still claiming that you’re not being interpreted correctly. Engaging in semantic nitpicking and moving of goal posts is required here. > > 2. Pretend you didn’t even make the bullshit argument in the first place once you realize the tide is turning against you. It’s an attempt to make your opponents look crazy, but it rarely works because people have memories. > > 3. When all else fails, paint the opponent as being shrill, hysterical, or irritating, even though your use of exclamation marks and profanity exceeds theirs. Another, one same thread. **Monstro** mischaracterizes other posters as claiming stats are dispositive in a certain situation. She also falsely claims that people saying that they (the stats) are “proof of guilt” Several posts have to be read in series to see what’s going on. # 918 (Her initial claim re: “dispositive”, in response to **Lochdale** , together with her “proof of guilt” mischaracterization) , then ## 934, 936, 939, 946. Another one, from here: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=194004&page=1&pp=50&highlight=monstro](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=194004&page=1&pp=50&highlight=monstro) where **Linty Fresh** calls Monstro on misrepresenting him several times: > [@](#): > > That’s the second time you’ve attributed something to me that I never said or maintained. I was judging the morality. Though I care about the feelings, they’re not all that important when compared to the actions. > [@](#): > > That’s the third time you’ve misrepresented me. Either read my posts or don’t comment on them, ok? Here’s yet another poster who is annoyed with **Monstro’s** mischaracterizetion habit: [QUOTE=Bricker] If you are unable to read my posts for what they actually say, instead of what you wish to read into them, then stop participating in this thread. Not once in this thread, or anywhere, have I ever said that white-on-black rape doesn’t exist. Have I? HAVE I? Answer me. Have I? [/QUOTE] From here: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=373271&page=9&pp=50&highlight=monstro](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=373271&page=9&pp=50&highlight=monstro) (post 421) I’m sure I could find more, but this is taking too long. I have to get some work done. ---
**Author:** ![Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Random)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2006, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-sound-angry-to-you-too-probably-mild/368169/102 "2006-08-13T21:21:01Z")
[QUOTE=monstro] Upon looking back, you are correct, **Random**. You weren’t ranting. I mistakenly thought the thread was a Pit thread and it was actually in GD. Apologies for the mistake and for taking so long to admit error. * * * So again, I’m sorry for getting _your_ tone wrong. [/QUOTE] Thank you. Not everybody is big enough to do this. I do appreciate it. And I regret posting the above reply to **Miller**. I would not have done so if I had seen your apology first. As I don’t intend to participate further in this thread (in light of your apology), and as my links are somewhat cumbersome, I will understand if people choose not to wade through them. In any event, I won’t be commenting further, even if others choose to do so. ---
**Author:** ![Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Random)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-sound-angry-to-you-too-probably-mild/368169/103 "2006-08-13T21:24:56Z")
No, that’s not enough. I apologize for my tone in the first post I made here. I have some hot-button issues, and being wrongly accused of something significant (as racism obviously is), is one of those issues. Although you may not have intended such an accusation, that’s how I read what you wrote, and I reacted harshly. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2006, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-sound-angry-to-you-too-probably-mild/368169/104 "2006-08-13T21:32:51Z")
[QUOTE=Random] No, that’s not enough. I apologize for my tone in the first post I made here. I have some hot-button issues, and being wrongly accused of something significant (as racism obviously is), is one of those issues. Although you may not have intended such an accusation, that’s how I read what you wrote, and I reacted harshly. [/QUOTE] It’s alright. One thing I’ve learned from this thread is that we all have baggage, and sometimes that baggage prejudices us unfairly. I can be prejudiced just as much as anyone else. Since now I know how irritating it is to be mischaracterized, I’m going to try to be more fair in my judgements. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-sound-angry-to-you-too-probably-mild/368169/105 "2006-08-14T00:35:11Z")
**Random** , why did you hafta go and link to that techinolor nightmare that **Weirddave** wrote? That thing reads like colorblind test. Jeebus. ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-sound-angry-to-you-too-probably-mild/368169/106 "2006-08-14T02:10:47Z")
[complete and utter hijack] Wait a minute. **you with the face** is **monstro** ’s sister? Man, I keep missing the memos! Or was that meant as a figurative term? [/hijack] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-sound-angry-to-you-too-probably-mild/368169.md?page=5)