--- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: <snip> > Judy continues to feel the need to post "corrective" or > "deserved putdown" responses to anything I post, and > does so even when I don't reply to them. As others have > commented, she does the same thing *even when I am no > longer on the forum*.
Er, that was me who commented, in connection with some of the discussion here about Barry leaving the forum last year. But as I pointed out at the time, that discussion concerned what he'd said *before he left*. I'm not going to bother to address the rest of the silliness in this post; everyone who reads it will know exactly how much sense it makes and take it for what it's worth. Just one additional comment: > But in recent months she has become frustrated because > she can't draw me into the one-on-one confrontation and > extended argument with her that she wants. Actually, I have a great deal of fun dissecting his posts regardless of whether he (or anyone else) responds. And we all know why he refuses to get into one-on-one confrontations: He realized long since that he doesn't do very well in them. Also, for the record, even way back in alt.m.t days, he's periodically announced he was going to "ignore" me, and has managed to do so for a while. Or sometimes did. In recent years, instead of breaking his latest vow and "interacting" with me directly, he writes long "original" screeds demonizing me while pretending they have nothing to do with what I've been saying about him. Everybody understands the game, although Barry has somehow managed to convince himself nobody gets what's going on. The bottom line is that Barry hates solid criticism and for some weird reason thinks he should be immune from it. I'm his chief critic here, although he has many others. He's been trying for many years to find a way to get me to stop, and if he can't do that, at least to keep other people from reading what I have to say in the hope that it'll discourage me. It hasn't worked yet on either count and never will. But he'll keep trying. The one thing he *could* do, as I've pointed out many times, is to stop doing what I criticize him for. As long as he keeps at it, he'll just have to live with my criticisms.
