Mormon Apologetics & Misogyny: The Case of William Schryver

[_Doctor Scratch]

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Trevor, we obviously have our differences, but I at least commend you for having a mountain of common sense more than most of the people here.

The tempest in a teapot that is the GSTP from day to day is of no interest to anyone outside these virtual walls.

This fails to explain why the "Emperor" was summoned to help clean up your mess.

[_Trevor]

This fails to explain why the "Emperor" was summoned to help clean up your mess.

The "Emperor" did not find out by chance. Someone contacted him. And that someone is a member of this board already.

[_Eric]

Well, Eric is right. His position has nothing to do with a habit of mistreating women, and everything to do with his dislike of harmony in particular. LOL.

Wow.

[_Will Schryver]

I'll put money on it that DCP thinks Will is funny.

I'm sure he does, in many cases. I am funny a lot of the time.

That said, Dan's style is very different than mine. Dan would never come right out and call harmony a deceitful anti-Mormon wretch. Dan is a much more refined rhetorical presence than I am. I admire him greatly. He is a consummate polemical interlocutor. I have learned a ton of valuable things from him.

Dan is Marquess of Queensberry; I am Fight Club.

Even so, I have my standards. And I never violate them.

Just as I don't use the "F" word or the "C" word in conversation (spoken or written), nor am I misogynistic.

I'll bet anything that Dan Peterson laughs at a lot of Will's posts, and that he thinks most of the female posters "deserve it."

Well, when it comes to things you will bet on, there is no such thing as a "long shot."

Still, I have no problem with Dan Peterson being forever recognized as being a "higher class" personality than I am. We all have our personal missions to perform. He's perfectly adapted to his, just as I'm perfectly adapted to mine.

I descend from stock that traveled here in steerage, and I've never been anything but proud of the fact.

[_Trevor]

Well, Eric is right. His position has nothing to do with a habit of mistreating women, and everything to do with his dislike of harmony in particular. LOL.

Wow.

Come on, Eric. You certainly don't like harmony here, whoever she may be in real life. You have said as much. You were very eager to use this thread to get her removed from the moderating team. Is this a secret?

[_Buffalo]

The great unresolved question here has to do with the BYU "academics" that are apparently "amused" by Will's online antics. We already know that Dr. Louis Midgley is among this "circle," but who else? Prior to chickening out form the thread, "[Maxwell's] Silver Hammer" tried very hard to make it seem as if Will was being "deliberately ambiguous" about the question of whether or not the Maxwell Institute apologists have been "yukking it up" over his blatantly misogynist language, and when Silver Hammer was asked point-blank whether he approved of the language or not, he dodged the question.

Regardless, as Liz points out, this will likely reach the Brethren eventually, at which point Will, Midgley, and the rest of the "circle" will have a lot of explaining to do.

I seriously doubt that the brethren care how apologists behave, as long as they don't embarrass the church on a national level.

[_Will Schryver]

This fails to explain why the "Emperor" was summoned to help clean up your mess.

What in the hell are you talking about?

[_Eric]

Come on, Eric. You certainly don't like harmony here, whoever she may be in real life. You have said as much. You were very eager to use this thread to get her removed from the moderating team. Is this a secret?

I dislike her as a moderator. That's all. I've been saying that since she became a moderator, and long before this thread.

My position on this thread has nothing to do with who I "like" and don't like, which should be obvious. Come on yourself.

[Guest]

WS, I would also like to inform you that much of your insulting commentary makes you civilly liable for the tort of defamation, particularly your post about the sexual life of specific woman.

To be more specific you are liable for defamation per se.

You are a piss poor example of the Church and do the Church a disservice with you actions.



Edited for clarity.

[_Trevor]

My position on this thread has nothing to do with who I "like" and don't like, which should be obvious. Come on yourself.

OK, whatever you say. I guess it is an important distinction for you. So be it.