| Replaced_Texan |
08-29-2006 01:31 PM |
Hot or Not, Minnesota Style
Quote:
Originally posted by Not Bob
I am her friend. And I am not getting any kicks out of this at all.
As was pointed out to me the last time this came up, it really isn't my place to act as the hall monitor here. (Despite the fact that I would be a really good one.) Nonetheless, I am compelled one more time to say that this whole thing is just a bunch of bullshit.
I don't think that the public board is the place for this discussion, but since everyone involved seems to think that it is, it is clear that a bunch of people have been dicks to ppnyc ever since her return. They should stop. And she should stop responding to them. And to others who have already stopped. And from doing so using Not Public information.
If you don't like someone, put them on ignore.
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I have some very small sympathy for ppnyc in that it is very difficult for anyone to sustain a dignified defense with 40 lawyers simultaneously gunning for you.* It may even feel a coordinated attack, even though it is not.
But I do not think that she should be treated like an eggshell poster because she's unable to take the fallout from what anyone who has read (and comprehended) a day of this board could see was going to be an unmitigated disaster on all fronts. I take shit on a regular basis about my driving. The Wonk fat jokes prevail even though they're now inapplicable. NFH still takes crap on a regular basis about her objecting to an image involving her grandparents. Hank's drinking problem is always thrown in his face. Ty's mad editing skilzz on the PB will always be brought up again and again and again. Did you know that str8 went to Yale? History has shown that objecting to ribbing and making fun of something will only exacerbate the jokes.
No one** gives a shit that ppnyc is "only a paralegal." In exchange, she shouldn't expect special treatment because she's not a lawyer. And if she says something objectionable--for example, that being a divorced woman is some sort of stigma--gwinky shouldn't be prohibited*** from responding just because she doesn't like ppnyc.
*Though I will say that as much as I hated, despised, and abhored Not Me, she could take it. The difference, though, was that Not Me wanted to be hated. That doesn't seem to be the case with ppnyc, though with some of the stuff that she says, maybe I've misjudged her.
**Except ppnyc.
***By prohibited, I mean urged not to respond, not actually censored, which isn't going to happen here. |
