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"Including my personal experience of people in the last week trying to convince me I was a victim, I was stalked and raped"

You are apparently too emotionally immature to understand that I didn't say this. So repeatedly telling me about it achieves absolutely nothing. If you have problem without something somebody said to you, tell them. Don't dangle it in front of me like it has anything to do with me.

You are apparently too triggered to understand that I have obviously never "locked anyone up" or even judged anyone as evil. So I have never satisfied a need to do so. My opinion of Russell Brand's behaviour is not a court verdict.

And you're apparently too dense to understand that a man being a "sex maniac", aka pretty much every man in the world, is not the same as a man being a rapist.

I've never called men pigs (I AM a man, you simpleton), I've never said the age of consent should be 25 or 18, I've never said almost any of the garbage you've accused me of.

So no, it's not "possible" that you've misinterpreted me, you haven't even *tried* to understand me. You're carrying the weight of the (doubtless many) times you've been told you're wrong or that your views on this issue are simplistic and repugnant, and you're projecting it all onto me.

The reason it's so difficult to have a conversation is that people like you can't get enough of a handle on their feelings to think about an issue from any perspective but their own.

Again, I engage with comments that go against my thought line literally every day. I just don't engage with stupidity.

Anyway, I see you've unsubscribed. That's fantastic. Now I feel no obligation whatsoever to engage with your nonsense ever again.

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"You are apparently too emotionally immature to understand that I didn't say this. "

Seriously, I never implied or said you made that statement.

Your ability to engage is directly embedded in your response.

I call men pigs. Especially in the context of guys my daughters were brining over in high school.

If you have been reading my comments, the guys all agreed with me calling them "pigs". It wasn't controversial. They are young men filled with hormones.

Calling me emotionally immature is about you, not me.

A simple response that would be productive would be: "Clearly what I wrote triggered you. Interesting to see your perspective. Given your personal history, I can understand why".

I know very little of your personal history. I like writers that are comfortable sharing their personal history to help understand their positions. That's not you. That why I unsubscribed. I'm glad I made your life easier. Have a great life.

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