Christopher, the Ignore feature isn't any good. Try it, you'll see its many shortcomings.
In my eyes, insisting on posting to someone who has begged you not to makes you look like a bully. All it says is that you have had the power with your law degree to make protecting one of their members too costly to SI, and thus to be able to force your posts on a woman who finds you frightening and distasteful.
You posted to Poet so viciously that reading that post caused me to end an underlying friendship with you that you and I had managed to maintain, in spite of differences, for, literally, years. (Others disapproved, too, and the post was removed.)
All you have to do to be a gentleman, or a gentleperson, a considerate person, a non-bully, is to continue to express every view you want to express-- but merely not address them to Poet, or refer to her personally. Isn't it enough of a victory that your threat to sue SI worked? Can't you rest with that, and not intrude on someone who is deeply disturbed by any attentions at all from you?
Knowing that it upsets her, why would you nonetheless insist on thrusting your posts into Poet's inbox? |
