No we didn’t. What were our contradictions?
Just FYI, Kaitlin and Katilyn are different posters.
Just as clarification, any thread is open for participation by any Doper. The overall topic may be geared toward a certain subset–men, women, conservatives, liberals, anime fans, whatever–but replies are not limited to just those folks. Anyone who wants to offer a perspective is free to do so.
We don’t foster an atmopshere of “only X need reply.” If a thread wanders around a bit, so be it. Happens all the time.
Veb
Is there something you want to talk about, paulberserker? I mean, it’s obvious your issue with Kaitlyn seems to have little to do with the post, and everything with an annoyance with Kaitlyn in general. It’s your good right, but I’m just wondering why it really bothers you. If you don’t want to talk about it on the forum, feel free to email me, email addy is in my profile.
So there’s a Kaitlin, a Kaitlyn, and a Katilyn?
Making Starts with a “K” a dangerous choice on Doper Jeopardy. 
For what it’s worth, I read the poll thread without really knowing any of the players, and I interpreted **Kaitlyn’s ** mini-hijack as an absurdist bit of humor. I found it funny, and it sure didn’t seem to derail the thread much. . .
Simply fascinating use of quotation marks. Can you explain why exactly you chose to do that?
Just wanna pop in to say:
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I have never found Kaitlyn to be snide, or an attention whore, or that she “chunters on about her sexuality”.
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Knowing her, I assumed that the “How dare you” was a joke. Just another instance of how emotions don’t come through the pixels.
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This gets my vote as “Pretty Lame Pit Thread of the Week”. Not “Lamest Pit Thread” y’understand. Just “Pretty Lame”.
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What “fucking facts” did Kaitlyn and/or Priceguy not get right?
I can see how people might have missed Kaitlyn’s joke if they weren’t familiar with her posting style. It was pretty obvious to me, anyway. Even if it weren’t a joke, and the post was meant to be entirely unironic, paulberserker is still acting like a total choad about it. Priceguy started that thread, he didn’t seem to have a problem with her contribution to his thread, so what the fuck makes any of this your business, paul?
Also,
No, on both counts. So long as everyone is being reasonable and respectful, I don’t think threads should be exclusive. Anyone that’s got a perspective on the issue at hand should feel free to chime in.
If something is counterintuitive, can we then comment “Pope shits in woods, Bears win the Superbowl”? 
I can understand how my first post could have been misinterpreted when taken out context, and if Priceguy wants an apology I’d be glad to offer it here and in the other thread. I’d have gone on my merry way had it been anyone else starting that thread.
Here’s the context. We’ve been flirting for four or five days now over in the picture thread, where’ I’ve been teasing Priceguy about his not being allowed to participate in a virtual pillow fight–it’s for ladies only. There has been a lot of flirting going on there and in the flirting thread, guys flirting with girls, gay or bi guys with other guys, and a couple of instances of straight ladies with other straight ladies, but a lack of interest among the straight guys to flirt with other guys.
I assumed this was what prompted Priceguy’s OP, and I followed him over from the picture thread to give him the same kind of “you’re leaving me out” jab he’d been giving me there. It was a joke meant to be taken as absurd on it’s face. The tone was one of Mock Outrage, which I thought would be obvious. Apparently, I wasn’t obvioous enough.
It would be easy for anyone who hasn’t been following that thread to misinterpret the joke.
As for this:
I’m always open to the idea that I’ve been doing something without being aware of it, so I did a search on recent posts to see if this is true. I’ve posted to three different clothing threads, a comic thread, and a movie thread, all without making note of any aspect of my sexuality.
I’ve posted to a couple of “How would you feel if your SO did this” threads, and I identified the nature of my relationship to Mrs. Six because it was relevant to the discussion at hand.
I’ve posted to relationship threads, where I make reference to my wife in the same manner that other posters refer to their SO’s. I’ve made specific reference to my being a transsexual over the past week or so twice, both times in direct response to a question posed about that very subject.
I’ll continue to make references to Mrs. Six whenever it seems relevant to the discussion. Pretty much everyone in a relationship thread will identify their sexual orientatiion inderectly by making reference to their SO. I see no reason why my being gay should exempt me from doing so.
Well, because he’s a prat. Did you really need to ask?
Absolutely no apology necessary. The post was funny, and the hi-jack was my fault, not yours. Since the thread was mine, no harm done.
The thread wasn’t opened because of the flirting threads, though; this is something I’ve been thinking about for quite some time. I hadn’t even noticed the phenomenon you describe of women flirting with everybody but men only flirting within their orientation. It’s just coincidence that I opened the thread now.
Ordinarily I wouldn’t bother to post in a gang bang. Poor form for starters, pitching in to throw a punch at someone already badly beaten. Second most of the good insults have already been thrown. And third I can never think of a good third item except for a cliche horse that is now glue.
And yet, here I am.
"PaulBerserker’, you really had a decent little beef going. Posting in a thread asking for a certain view when you don’t share that certain view isn’t necessary. It’s a bit disrespectful to the OP. In this case, the OP didn’t seem to mind so points were deducted. It still wasn’t a bad rant overall.
Then “you” started up with the “quotation marks.” Makes you seem like a dullard with a teensy tiny lil axe to grind that you are very sensitive about and are likely overcompensating for. Not that I’m trying to imply anything. Heaven forbid.
Oh, I can explain. You see, paulberserker is a fucking dick.
Actually, with attitudes like his, I would say he’s a NON-fucking dick.
So it’s your personal mission to seek out and ostracise the one-trick-ponies of the board, I take it?
Ah, my mistake. It’s an interesting phenomenon, I’m glad you opened the thread.
If anything, Kaitlyn’s “one trick” is talking a lot about clothing in detail. Which, in my book, is cool.