You’d call that a defence? “Hi, my husband’s a stupid, mean-spirited, lying douchebag who uses his online identity as a tool for projecting his inadequacies onto others. He’s a bully you should always think twice before believing and he’s way too spineless to provide any input whatsoever into the running of our household…but he’s wonderful.”
Doesn’t sound like much of a defence to me. In fact, without reading too much into it, it doesn’t sound like the happiest of relationships at all. Even if I’m wrong, it’s still very sad.
I’ve got to say, based on that rant Mrs. Incubus doesn’t strike me as the most emotionally healthy of people either.
Scumpup is made of awesome like Cossack porn star. I not posting for defending him. I posting to making sure internet whores not stealing he. Whores like he.
I disagree that the wife in question posted derogatory things about herself. She said she had a high BMI, extra pounds, and stretch marks. These are facts, not insults. If she called herself an ugly fattie, I would agree that this kind of self-abuse would be implausible.
If anything is implausible in that post, it’s the harsh things she said about her husband. If I were married, my loyalties to my husband would prevent me from calling him a stupid douchebag; my natural reaction would be to defend him, if I chose to post at all (which I admit is unlikely). Also, my pride would prevent me from portraying him too negatively, because I tend to consider my loved-ones a reflection on me.
These are all very interesting and are helping me to understand a mindset I, obviously, don’t hold and had never even considered. I appreciate the insights. Hopefully those will help me be less assuming going forward.
I don’t have a husband, but if I did and he managed to get into that much trouble on a message board, I’d be sitting back laughing at him and letting him dig himself out of the hole.
Jumping off from the current Pit thread is fine, but let’s refrain from hashing out the issues directly related to the wife posting.
The topic here is “Would you post on behalf of your husband?” Confine your remarks to that. If you wish to talk about the Incubus/wife situation, do it in the BBQ Pit.
My husband is a big boy I don’t need to post for him , and he doesn’t post for me. Except once long ago when we shared a computer and one or the other of us would forget to log out, and back in again. Then I would be surprised , oops I posted in his name again. Now we each have our own computers so no more accidents.
As a prank, maybe, but he doesn’t do message boards. Closest thing was he used to do a lot of Netflix reviews, and if I had any interest in that, I would use the same account (I think I would have to, given that it’s the household’s service).
I have had him give input to a reply or two of mine in the past, usually regarding medical questions to make sure I’m not talking out of my ass.
As for what happened here, no, I can’t see that happening in either direction.
ETA: If my husband asked me to post something on his non-existent forum, and it weren’t regarding eye-rolling forum drama, I suppose I would. Like type out a recipe or describe a painting technique I’ve done, sure.
I probably wouldn’t, and he doesn’t post on a message board, so it wouldn’t come up.
But I could see it happening if something were making him really unhappy for some reason. It’s easy to make fun of for being lame, but social rejection is a big deal to people. If you invest in a social group, even if it isn’t in person, and then you experience rejection I think it’s understandable for someone to be upset over it.
Again, it’s highly unlikely, but perhaps I would post something if I thought I could ameliorate his unhappiness.
(Perhaps I should say that I haven’t followed the whole Pit thing, I’m just responding to the thread.)
If not, then the answer is probably “no”. He’s an adult.
Granted, if he got embroiled in some sort of message board controversy (although I cannot imagine how that might happen - he’s a hardcore lurker), if I knew about it and it was either involving a topic about which I had knowledge or I thought he was being unfairly maligned in some fashion, I might feel compelled to comment. Which is an unduly complicated way of saying I might comment on the controversy in my own right, but I would not do so purely on his behalf.
I just asked my wife if she would defend me if i got involved in board drama that hurt my feelings. Her responce was “No, it’s the Internet no one cares plus if you were being a douchebag you’d deserve it.” So I didn’t think you’ll find her here defending me in fact I’m not sure she’ll let you know if I die.
