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To: Lane3 who wrote (12128)	5/5/2002 8:32:47 PM
From: Poet	Respond to of 21057

Hi Karen, Sorry for the delay in responding. I haven't been very comfortable with not posting to you and would relish the chance to work this through and put it aside. What had irked me was a post of yours, made around Easter, in which you enumerated some religious practices that you said gave you "the heebie jeebies". I took issue with the specifics of the post and told you that I felt that the tone was unlike you. What bothered me in the ensuing discussion was that I felt you took the route of ignoring the content of my posts, not allowing the possibility that you (like everyone else here on different occasions) may have overstepped a bit. Instead, you made a statement to the effect of "I am not the bogeyman", which indicated to me that you felt I was overreacting and quite possibly not in touch with reality. I took that to be a cheap shot, along with your refusal to answer PMs and explaining that with "I don't think it's safe" to speak with me privately. So there are two things which have been bothering me: 1. Your refusal to acknowledge that you might have been contemptuous in your heebie jeebie post. 2. your deflecting my criticism by pathologizing me.

To: Lane3 who wrote (12128)	5/5/2002 8:55:50 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

Oops. I should have added that I'm not interested in getting neck-deep in the heebie-jeebie thing again. It's water under the bridge, unless you want to discuss it. The pathologizing was what had irked me the most over time, however. You may not agree, but as the person to whom your remarks were made, that is how they were interpreted and that is what has made me angry. I understand that we approach things differently. I am far more emotional than you, which I see as a difference, not as a judgement.