Wow, hadn't realized this gave offense. It was simply a commentary on doggerel and toilet humor. No intention to belittle, and apologies for having inadvertently ruffled any feathers.
-Durova On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:43 PM, stevertigo <[email protected]> wrote: > Durova, perhaps taking some cue from Gwern, wrote some poetically > critical and even ugly things above. But while Gwern mostly attacked > the concept of poetry on wikien-l (oh-so-cleverly I might add), Durova > appeared to have made it personal, and, for lack of a better word, > ugly. I don't quite understand how a silly or even stupid poem like > the one I posted might deserve such a response, but I have given it > some thought and broken it down a little. > > I was motivated to write this by three things 1) personal hate attacks > and the concepts behind them need to be destroyed, 2) I needed to > address it in order to move on to other list contributions (I've been > away so long; I had forgotten we had jerks on this list) and 3) > correcting Durova's own personal misconceptions, which firstly appears > to be that she can personally attack someone, without real cause even, > and she would receive respect, love, and even grace for it. And > secondly, that she can attempt to destroy someone personally and not > meet certain undeniable correction. > > The dominant theories are: > 1) Durova and Gwern were motivated to make the point that poetry (even > bad poetry like mine) is altogether unwelcome on wikien. Attempting to > sound ironic, but sounding rather more unpleasant, they used poetry > itself to make their point. An insipid point, to be sure; even moreso > than my pointless, harmless, poem and the posting thereof. 2) Durova > (less so Gwern) appeared to have and express some animosity toward me > personally. I don't know quite why; I can't remember even having said > a word to her personally, on any matter at all. > > 3) It also occurs to me that certain people might mismanage certain > concepts: Someone without sufficient self-conceptual distance between > their head and their glutes might so misinterpret a harmless everyday > concept like "poo" and feel entirely soiled by it. The solution is not > to get personally uglier and uglier; lashing out at the very concept > as it were; but to simply use personal force of mind to create some > distance between the two bodily concepts in question. > > All is now forgiven. We disembodied online beings can now go and do > other and maybe better things. With all apologies.. for the poetry. > > -SV > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- http://durova.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
