Pot, meet Kettle.

Clueless

Mona. Dear. I'm sure you mean well (hell, I hate the NRA, too, and unlike you I actually reside in the nation where its lobbying regularly holds legislation hostage), but... Do you see nothing wrong with your statements here?

It might be one thing if you were attempting to reappropriate pejoratives to use them in a positive way (although, unless you're a "fag" yourself, I think it really isn't your place to do the reappropriating).

But no, you're clearly using these words in a derogatory manner. And, yes, I personally take offense.

"Fag" and "faggot" are two very emotionally charged words, as I'm sure you well know.

I had them flung at me on an almost daily basis during a rather painful period in my life, beginning in grade school and all through high school and beyond, by "friend" and foe alike. That was well before I admitted to myself that I was gay.

Years later, even hearing gay men call each other "faggot" (I knew a number of them who on occasion did) made me cringe.

I myself used the phrase "fag hag" for a time to denote female friends of my own or of other gay men. I don't any longer. It's demeaning and disrespectful to them and... well, I think we've covered the "fag" part already.

Those words are still regularly thrown the way of myself and others, and while they no longer have the power to hurt me the way that they once did, they are most often meant to offend, and offend they do.

I also take exception to your use of the word "gay" as an insult. A word embraced by the gay community as a positive, affirmative term has now been reappropriated as a general term of disparagement by primarily young people, even as others cry that "the homosexuals" have forever "ruined" that "perfectly good" word.

The casual use of homophobic language is "too often seen as harmless banter instead of the offensive insult that it really represents. ... To ignore this problem is to collude in it. The blind eye to casual name-calling, looking the other way because it is the easy option, is simply intolerable."

One would think that someone who is sensitive to such things as the "rape culture" would be sensitive to these things ("homophobic culture", etc.), as well.

Well, dear Mona. FAIL. EPIC fail.

P.S. You might consider that your use (and that of your friends) of the word "retard" and its variants is equally offensive.

P.P.S. It's taken some time for the idea of marriage equality to gain the acceptance that it has thus far. But even I, as a gay man, can understand how some of the older generation might be slow to support it. I hardly think it makes them "stupid".

Kudo Gaming

Deek continues to give herself kudos via her alt, baby Kranfel. This is from when I first noticed her "gaming", which happened to be on the day that she earned herself a ban/suspension from the Forum (February 18, for her posts to this thread):

ETA: I had opened baby K.'s profile from that thread page, looked at the kudos given, and there was one (given to Osprey T.). Looked again and voila! Three to Deek in a matter of minutes.

This is from today:

[Note: The jury's still out on who the operator of BabyDeeQ is. It could be Deek, it could be someone else.]

Kudos to you, Deek. Woooot.

I wonder how her "stringent follow up" is going.

Of course, nobody could possibly infer that she was suspended/banned from the Forum because all of her posts to that thread poofed and baby K. and one of Deek's other alts (Kerr Fall AKA Kerr Fail) stepped in, could they? It has to be a conspiracy.

Shades of Sus.

Speaking of Ms. Pig... I wonder if Sus, now that she's back, will have anything to say about this blatant "kudo gaming"...

Nah. Course not.

I'll just leave these here...

... and after you've read them (IF you bother to read them), you can get back to your continued screeching and finger-pointing, your conflating of issues, and your removal from friends lists of people who have opinions that differ from your own.

Take Back Valentine's Day!

One Billion Rising: The Ladies’ Movement That Smells Like Kony 2012

The Best Valentine's Day Gift for College Students: Gender Reconciliation

Why I Won't Support One Billion Rising

Blaming Men Doesn’t Stop Domestic Violence

Happy Valentine's Day


Have a nice day.

(Yeah, I'm a little late to the party, but I'm still hearing about fallout. You people should be soooooo proud of yourselves.)

Pulling Rank and "Gamification"

Stellar: PM message from LL says I now have a rank. Three words did it.

Laetizia Coronet: You now have the rank smell of "gamification", Honored Resident. :/

Stellar: OMG, it's so funny! I posted exactly three times*, and each time I got a PM from LL telling me I had a new "rank"?!
1) Your new rank is Resident
2) Recognized Resident
3) Honored Resident
*Does some math* At this rate, if I get busy, I figure I could be president by next week!

Laetizia Coronet: The best you can do is Helper I think. This entails forgetting all about your real life and spending day and night here...

Griffin: That's supposed to be a dig at me, Stellar, in case you missed it. (Yeah, REALLY lame, but I've come to expect it.) ETA: Meanwhile, Tish's friend there is the one that is actually gaming the system. But she's stuck on Advisor. (refers to baby Kranfel, who gives kudos to her main, DQ Darwin)

Stellar: Helper? Aw, hell. I don't wanna help on this forum. : (
Plus, I'm supposed to be inworld building. Damn you, LL, for getting my hopes up! *shakes fist into the ethernet!*

Griffin: Yes, some people actually do help other people here. Others... they just bring their butthurt here.

Laetizia Coronet: It's all about you, isn't it.

Griffin: Word. ETA: If you weren't speaking of me, Tish, then who? Marigold?

Laetizia Coronet: I was speaking of helpers in general. As is clear from the signature line I use, I don't like this rank system at all. I never have. Maybe it's hard for you to understand that my life isn't actually about you, but it isn't.

Griffin: Oh, so you feel that Helpers in general "forget... all about [their] real life and spend... day and night here." Good to know. And people (including some Helpers; you know... the people that "forget... all about [their] real life and spend... day and night here.") have asked LL to do away with it. Then why do I get the impresssion that you're dogging me here?

Laetizia Coronet: You started reacting to me. I'm only replying. So who's dogging now?

Griffin: Well, let's see. Here I am posting to this thread since yesterday evening. I'm one of two Helpers who had been posting here before your now famous "forgetting all about your real life and spending day and night here..." You don't appear to have any issues with Marigold, but you do have issues with me. So, who could you possibly be talking about, hmmm? In addition, you and baby both seem to be active in a lot of threads that i've been posting to lately. Coincidence? Don't bother answering that. Rhetorical. BTW. I thought you didn't want to speak to me any further? Funny way of showing it.

Laetizia Coronet: So you start talking to me and then you complain about me replying. I guess I don't even have to tell you what could have avoided my "dogging" you, do I?

Griffin: Um. I "replied" to one of your posts, but it was clearly directed at Stellar.