To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (52753 ) 6/11/1999 4:19:00 AM From: Neocon Read Replies (7) | Respond to of 67261
Well, Michelle, EV, with whom I have sparred before, came at me with a totally out of control post. I didn't report it, I doubt that anyone did, but unless he was filled with remorse and bleeped it (an unlikely act for the Cracked Crusader), one of the gods, such as Jill, caught it and bleeped it. Either way, it was a few days ago, and so far no renumbering has occurred. Anyway, why would anybody bother to have taken out "vile" from the post you quoted, and not taken out the post over all? My guess is that the post was so ferocious that you registered the sentiment, and retrospectively thought that he had used the word... I would like to address another question, though. As I said awhile back, I was nice to Dan as long as he was nice to me, and so I follow at least that rule with everyone. I didn't hold it against lorrie that she called me a Nazi ages ago, when we started to be chatty out of common interests, for example. Since JLA and Bill have basically been swell to me, and since we see most things the same way, they are my pals. Now, the language that JLA used about lorrie seems appalling, but consider the degree of provocation over time offered. She has said numerous appalling man- hating things, has trashed marriage in the most unrestrained terms, has accused Betty of being a man impersonating a woman, has ridden brees in a way that if he were Jewish would not have been tolerated by anyone on this thread, and in various other ways has purposely shocked and offended. Why is everyone surprised that she has succeeded in her goal, and is viewed with disgust by most of the people on the thread? I have known enough people like her in my time to have hoped that she was capable of dropping some of the bull if she were drawn out as a human being, and I was right, but not for long enough, she is back in full strength. My solution is to ignore her, and I wish everyone would follow that lead. However, I find JLAs behavior understandable, if not entirely correct by my lights, and therefore am not as offended as you at outbursts like that. I will take your disapproval of JLA more seriously the next time you reprove lorrie for one of her "men are destroying the planet and these guys exemplify the traits that will doom us all" rants. I have openly reproved some of my team, and argued even more in private with them about matters like this...