--- In [email protected], Duveyoung <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" <j_alexander_stanley@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], Duveyoung <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > ow, ooooooo, I shudder to imagine what torture you'd additionally > > > get for snarking at our newbie Meow the other day. > > > > I didn't snark at her. I calmly explained that pretty much any > > topic is fair game on FFL and that any attempt to discourage > > discussion is not likely to succeed. Newbies who come here and > > try to dictate what's discussed (or demand that the moderators > > censor content they find offensive, as a newbie did a while back) > > need to be told that isn't gonna fly on FFL. There is no right > > to not be offended on FFL. > > I know not your mind's truths, so you get to claim innocence, but, > dude, let me tell you in all candor that your rebuke of her was > cold.
I can see how my calm demeanor could come across as cold to someone whose emotional body is often (always?) in a heightened state of inflamed passion. It's also my nature to write with few words, and this wouldn't be the first time that people read negativity into my curtness. > You think you were merely informing her? Come on, am I the only > one who can read between your lines when you post? That rebuke was > dripping sulfuric acid. Her comment to me came across like a mother wagging her finger, saying I shouldn't be discussing the nature of non-vegetarian diets. I was mildly annoyed, but to say my response was "dripping sulfuric acid" is a gross exaggeration.
