Peterson, Hamblin, Schryver Online Antics: Request for Help

[_Quasimodo]

Let's just let this be my parting comment on this thread, and maybe from this board altogether...

Well, I hope not; but please forgive me for pointing out that you have missed a grand opportunity to say "I want to be alone."

[_RayAgostini]

What would have been an acceptable response to her?

I'll get back to you later with a more thorough reply (got things to do this morning). I occasionally save links to posts on this board that I like, and I've saved a few of yours (including the ones where you were verbally savaged on MAD, and where you voiced concerns about Mormon and ex-Mormon male behaviour towards females here).

So for what it's worth, I know we've all left this board more times than we can count (a hint to Garbo), but maybe there will be some answers (or not) in This post you did which may indicate some additional feelings and thoughts that were gathering in Garbo's mind. I don't think she's threatening to leave "just because" of the exchanges on this thread. Something has been building up for a while, and I think there's more to it than just the spat on this thread.

[_EAllusion]

I'm guessing I'm one of the people fingered for taking place in this savage gang-beating, but all I did was disagree with a reply Garbo wrote to something that I posted. I have seen meanspirited pile-ons before, but not in this thread. It seems like Ray would prefer that if more people are on one side of an issue than another, then the majority should queue up so the minority doesn't feel overwhelmed.

[_Chap]

I'd be obliged if someone would indicate any way in which I have been rude to Garbo.

(By the way, since this is a discussion board, not a dinner table to which Garbo and I have been invited by a mutual friend, I am afraid I do not count polite requests for clarification as rudeness.)

[_Darth J]

Like I pointed out in a thread I linked, if Beastie was black and Schyver instead asked her to go pick up her welfare check while the employed talk, why on earth would we be forbidden from calling that racist?

Because that remark would be on her lineage, not her "race."

[_MsJack]

Cicero - Garbo first registered here over 1.5 years ago. I still remember her introductory posts. She may be an infrequent poster, but she isn't new.

I'm not going to protect posters (new or otherwise) from having their ideas critiqued. This is a discussion board; that's what we do.

If people are rude to her or attack her personally, there's a good chance I'll speak up against that. But I'm not going to say, "Oh, beastie and EA and Chap, how dare you respectfully engage her arguments! Shame on you!" (In fact, it was Garbo who engaged in ad hominem by suggesting that the people calling William's behavior misogynist are sexually repressed or inexperienced with harsher examples of misogyny in their personal lives. For my own part, certainly neither is the case. But that's really none of Garbo's business.)

I personally hope that she does stay. But I also hope she grows thicker skin for having her ideas critiqued. Having multiple people disagree with what you say isn't the end of the world.

[_Morley]

I'm a bit surprised by her high tolerance for sexualized insults combined with such a low tolerance for others disagreeing with her position, and questioning her about it.

Again.

[_RayAgostini]

It seems like Ray would prefer that if more people are on one side of an issue than another, then the majority should queue up so the minority doesn't feel overwhelmed.

Maybe it's also this sort of mind-reading that Garbo didn't like as well?

And no, that's not my position. My ideal for the board is when both "sides" are something like 50-50, as I do believe it was several years ago, and this board was almost addictive and far more interesting, until Democrat bad Mormons started exiting, one by one, and now it's virtually an echo-chamber. I'll be back later to read the slams.

[_Kishkumen]

I don't care what anyone says, Will's behavior online has been by turns grandiose, bizarre, narcissistic, and sexist. Anyone who knows a different guy in real life is welcome to that different experience of him. I speak to the issue of his behavior online, and I see absolutely no reason to modify my judgment of it. May he prosper in any case.

[_Chap]

It seems like Ray would prefer that if more people are on one side of an issue than another, then the majority should queue up so the minority doesn't feel overwhelmed.

Maybe it's also this sort of mind-reading that Garbo didn't like as well?

And no, that's not my position. My ideal for the board is when both "sides" are something like 50-50, as I do believe it was several years ago, and this board was almost addictive and far more interesting, until Democrat bad Mormons started exiting, one by one, and now it's virtually an echo-chamber. I'll be back later to read the slams.

Try creating some sock-puppets to even things up, Ray?