--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: <snip> > > You claimed that you and Raunchy had death threats > > hurled at you. > > I said misogynistic vomit, including death > threats, had been hurled at us and many other > women. > > > I asked you for examples. > > > > You gave some. > > I gave two, both from one post of Barry's.
Last, hopefully, point on this for those who haven't been following it closely enough to recognize how grossly it's been distorted by Barry and his minions. My original remark about how "misogynistic vomit (including death threats)" had been hurled at raunchydog and me and many other women *didn't mention Barry*. Nor did I cite him as the author of the threats until *after he had identified himself* as the author and quoted the post containing the threats. At which point I confirmed that those were the threats I had referred to. In my original post, it was just a passing reference, a parenthetical. I had no intention of making a big deal of it or even of ever referring to it again. The only reason for mentioning it at all was as an example of how extreme the "misogynistic vomit" had become here. Even if you don't think "death threats" was an appropriate way to characterize Barry's sick fantasies of raunchydog's and my violent deaths, if you can't even acknowledge how extreme they were, if you think they were an acceptable form of discourse on this forum, you have some serious problems with your view of gender relations. The closest anybody (except raunchydog) has come to rebuking Barry for posting those fantasies is Curtis, who admitted they were "a bit heavy-handed." Instead, everybody is criticizing *me* for referring to them by a term they don't feel is appropriate, i.e., nitpicking. Calling raunchydog and me "dumb angry cunts too stupid to live" is just fine; calling this a "death threat" is a dreadful sin for which an abject apology is required. And note again that the person who has made a big deal of this is not me but Barry, the one who made the violent comments in the first place. Simply astonishing. I've remarked before on the moral and ethical vacuity of FFL. That vacuum has now become almost total. (Looking back, I realize Barry was hoping I'd explode with fury over his fantasies of murdering me and raunchydog. It must have been quite a disappointment when I didn't, but with the enthusiastic cooperation of others here, he managed to fabricate the huge fuss he wanted out of the one passing reference I did make.)
