*Mary Jo was responsible for her own subjugation. Whenever women stood up to Ted Kennedy and refused to get in his car when he was drunk, they didn’t get a ride from him. Kennedys are just men acting like Kennedys and getting trashed for it, nevermind that the patriarchal society that we have recently discarded had many rules governing the appropriately polite ways to approach women to ride in your car when you’re shitfaced, etiquette that has largely been lost.
Kennedys like to fuck women, and there is nothing wrong with that. Some Kennedys are uncultivated swine, but so are dumb women who ride with drunk drivers by an equal measure. I am just sick of hearing how Ted Kennedy was so awful and Mary Jo should get a pass for getting in the car with a known womanizer and drunk, what a load of bullshit.*
Lawd a’mercy, that sounds like a load of shit doesn’t it? Sounded the same as when you spouted your idiocy in another thread. If I have to bear my responsibility for Walking While Female in your little world, Mary Jo can take her lumps for wanting to be in the Kennedy fold enough to take a ride from someone that was shitfaced. Right? Right?
Do I think that she *really * deserved it? Nope. Nobody deserves to die so young and in such a stupid way, but you need to get a grip on yourself and pull your head out of your ass and rejoin the sane people of the world. Like mentioned previously in this thread, where was your passion in the other threads about her. Why now? What total horseshit that you don’t want to make this about Kennedy. You absolutely do while you hide behind your faux concern for this woman who has been dead longer than I’ve been alive.
Oh what about her chilllllldren she didn’t get to have?!??!? Ohhhhh the humanity.
Is it weak-willed to note that you’ve taken up what, something like 5 threads across a bunch of forums on this now, and it’s making you look a little unbalanced? Do you really care THIS much about Mary Jo Kopechne all of a sudden? I doubt it. It’s not about her, it’s probably not about Ted Kennedy anymore either. It’s about you.
Maybe it’s not trolling. Maybe it’s just attention whoring, or attempted suicide by mod at this point. You know I’m not even slightly a fan of yours, but my honest, well-intentioned advice to you at this point is to just STOP now. Walk away from the computer for a few days. Play with your daughter, do some online gaming, read a book, get some fresh air, anything but post on the Dope. You seem to be coming undone. Walk away. In a week no one will care anymore and life will go on.
I think the tenor of your posts speak for themselves, as well as the subtext, which is not nearly as subtle as you seem to think it is. I’d say your post and your previous thread lacked in judiciousness. There are good reasons to have disliked Ted Kennedy’s politics and there are good reasons for people to hold the opinion that justice was not done in the case. But dragging up Mary Jo Kopechne’s memory for the sole purpose of crapping on Ted Kennedy’s memory is ghoulishly ignoring the rest of her life and what she was about. It strikes me as robbing her grave, cutting off her skull and throwing it into the crowd at Kennedy’s funeral. Yeah, pretty shocking, but not a way to remember her.
Of course, if you were to look into her life, you’d probably find that her politics offend you. That still wouldn’t make her deserve her fate on the day she died, or as fodder for opponents of her political ideals.
I’ve read several threads you’ve been in over the last couple of days, mswas, and you read as if you are on some kind of manic binge being fueled by alcohol and self pity, to put it mildly.
I won’t tell you to stop because you wan’t pay any more attention to me than anyone else. I am simply relieved not to be around to watch you crash and burn in the RW.
All of a sudden? Do I need some kind of authenticity pass to actually have felt a pang of sadness? Yes, it was all of a sudden. I had the thought, “Wow, this woman and the one thing she is going to be remembered for is about to be forgotten.”
In people’s rush to stereotype me they never bothered to get to know why I might care about something. It’s not their responsibility to care obviously but there is a lot of projection going around. I mean why do I have to prove my authenticity cred to care about something?
Maybe some of you will actually you know try to view me as a person sometime and realize that I care about things and am interested in things in a bit of an off- beat sort of way. If you bothered to know or care as I’ve said before I think like a writer, I am interested in the human condition, and this aspect of the human condition hit me suddenly like a ton of bricks. It was a window into mortality that I just didn’t have before.
Yes, it was suddenly. But that doesn’t make it disingenuous. I was just like, “Fuck death is a bitch.”
You guys act like someone forces you to respond to me. I don’t single any of you out in particular. I post what is on my mind and then you respond or you don’t. I’m already there. I don’t care anymore. If you have a problem with it don’t post to me, it doesn’t matter to me.
I have taken breaks today, I went to the park and played with my daughter. I spent a few hours playing Team Fortress. I watched a little bit of Top Chef shrugs Sleeps With Butterflies A woman’s sovereignty is not in a man’s hands. That is all I have to say on that subject.
If you want to see my mindset at the moment. Here is the post. I’m actually kind of blissed out, and no I haven’t drank or taken any drugs, not for many days in fact.
I’m in a good mood right now, the precise opposite of the mood I was in last night.
No one cares what forum these things are in, at least I don’t. Iam talking about your online behavior, which has many similarities to drunken ranting. If you are not drunk, then you considerablly disturbed by something else, and I have no idea what.
If it were just the one thread, OK. But it seems to have mushroomed into some sort of recent obsession, out of nowhere, which is why I say now, it’s not about her anymore, it’s about you and your issues here. That’s pretty disrespectful to her memory, that you’re now using her as a springboard to tweak noses and make some sort of stand against Mod Oppression or SDMB Partisanship or whatever. Please consider that, if you really do give a huge damn about Ms. Kopechne, using her to serve your own ends on a message board is not the best way to honor her death.
You don’t have to prove anything, and you can care about whatever you want, but it’s clearly no longer about your deep caring about MJK, and that’s the part I’m commenting on. It’s part of a larger craziness that you’ve been demonstrating lately. Smells like a flame out, and it’s not worth it.
I know you realize that I am posting this out of genuine concern for you and not to taunt you or degrade you. I hope you will consider my advice. If it’s ego that’s not allowing you to walk away from all the arguing and craziness of late, lest your opponents think they’ve won, fuck 'em, and fuck ego. Just take a break and stop letting this place get to you.
But then you logged on and drove right back into the crazy. Why? Just walk away and try really hard not to care about any of it for about a week. Not just half a day, a week. Seriously, it will do wonders for your disposition here.
dropzone I wasn’t alive 40 years ago, but I think you’re right, I don’t think Ted Kennedy was a murderer. That being said, may I be concerned about it in the present?
I was directed here as a result of your particular comments.
We clearly disagree about ideology but agree that Mary Jo was yet another (and the worst) cast-aside from the kennedy Royal family.
That family was started in evil, progressed through evil and, God has called the last and most evil one back to face justice.
And I am sure Mary Jo was the one who stuffed his butt into the elevator with only a “Down” button and pushed that button.
Anyone who doesn’t think her death is not at his feet doesn’t know the facts of the case. The fact it happened a long time ago doesn’t change a thing. There is a reason there is no statute of limitations on murder.
She now has supporters who don’t close their eyes to naked facts. The swimmer was as directly responsible for MJK’s death as if he had directly committed it. His after-the-fact lies about his “heroic efforts” don’t pass the laugh test, much less the smell test.
God and Mary Jo have him now – he will get the justice in the afterlife she was denied in this one.
But to lionize this killer, this traitor (need I quote you from his attempt to undermine America’s effort to destroy Communism?), this philandering drunk? This supporter of our enemies?