Re: Toxicity....... You're Welcome
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2023 12:56 pm
FTR, I built a post-Mormon community that wasn't toxic. It had its toxic elements, definitely. But overall, it was put together enough that we had the support of people like the Bushmans. Clayton Christensen was considering keynoting when John began throwing one of his [many] behind-the-scenes temper tantrums and started tearing things down.
He didn't care about you. I did. He didn't care about the donors. I did. All he wanted was money in his pocket and a martyrdom/excommunication. Martyr stories are very powerful in Mormon and exMormon circles. Lucrative, too.
The organization I built and ran had a much more productive impact on the church. It would have gone far if the board had decided to fire John instead of me. Lots of things in the last decade would have gone differently and would have been better for exMormons.
It was my skilled leadership, not John's, that was influential in supporting the anti-mopologists on this board as they took on the Maxwell Institute back in the day. My posts belong on this board because I helped you and this is where a little of the action occurred during the heyday of my work. To believe that I don't belong here and this record doesn't belong here is to have your head buried in the sand. This board has always been the most fitting place for me to keep my record and collect the toxic responses that prove the sexism among John's followers during the time period. This has never been about you and I was never worried about or afraid of some toxic posters on a message board at the back of the internet. You've proved my points well as I created the record that did the job I needed it to do and that has opened the door for other women.
And thank you, also, to the many who are here who have supported me all along. A few kind words were much appreciated along my long and lonely journey.
To the toxic posters: you obviously don't believe in women... or believe them. Who among you would imagine that it was actually a woman who was a catalyst for some of your greatest successes? Again, it was my skilled work, not John's, that was influential in supporting you as you took on the mopologists in 2011 and 2012. Yes, my work: a woman's work. Women can actually be very capable people, even when we happen to be born Mormon. It should be pretty obvious by now that the capability to build something that isn't toxic didn't belong to John.
So.... you're welcome.
Goodbye.
He didn't care about you. I did. He didn't care about the donors. I did. All he wanted was money in his pocket and a martyrdom/excommunication. Martyr stories are very powerful in Mormon and exMormon circles. Lucrative, too.
The organization I built and ran had a much more productive impact on the church. It would have gone far if the board had decided to fire John instead of me. Lots of things in the last decade would have gone differently and would have been better for exMormons.
It was my skilled leadership, not John's, that was influential in supporting the anti-mopologists on this board as they took on the Maxwell Institute back in the day. My posts belong on this board because I helped you and this is where a little of the action occurred during the heyday of my work. To believe that I don't belong here and this record doesn't belong here is to have your head buried in the sand. This board has always been the most fitting place for me to keep my record and collect the toxic responses that prove the sexism among John's followers during the time period. This has never been about you and I was never worried about or afraid of some toxic posters on a message board at the back of the internet. You've proved my points well as I created the record that did the job I needed it to do and that has opened the door for other women.
And thank you, also, to the many who are here who have supported me all along. A few kind words were much appreciated along my long and lonely journey.
To the toxic posters: you obviously don't believe in women... or believe them. Who among you would imagine that it was actually a woman who was a catalyst for some of your greatest successes? Again, it was my skilled work, not John's, that was influential in supporting you as you took on the mopologists in 2011 and 2012. Yes, my work: a woman's work. Women can actually be very capable people, even when we happen to be born Mormon. It should be pretty obvious by now that the capability to build something that isn't toxic didn't belong to John.
So.... you're welcome.
Goodbye.
