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Then again I'm just a "Plastic Trickster" - is that an easily bandied, emotionally manipulative pejorative or is it just that we do not agree? How would you know if you didn't know better?
Show, don't tell. I'm identifying you as someone adopting a trickster pose with little substance to back it up based on what you've written on the board since you arrived. Want me to reasess? Start by not taking cheap shots at minority groups and not cheerleading for religious fundamentalist misogynists and the enablers who love them.
You've used a fairly typical tack here, where people using harrassing, sexist, or racist language are merely young and inexperienced, with the nasty old greyfaces failing to make allowances for their naivety and enthusiasm ("failings of youth," "oi you kids get off my astral lawn!"). This is a nice comforting bromide, I'm sure, but it has little to do with the situation at hand. Calvin didn't get booted off because he was youthful and inexperienced. People bent over backwards to get through to him. If you actually read the thread in question (something I doubt you've done), you'll see a number of carefully written, cogent posts addressing Calvin's arguents and offering alternative veiwpoints. I personally pissed away an entire morning exchanging PMs, trying to get him to calm down and take on board what was being said. What I got out of it was a slew of incresingly rude messages, including the final one which was packed full of gender slurs and unwarrented personal abuse.
I'm not sure precisely what you're getting at with the above post because it's so badly thrown together, but whatI'm recieving "ah hah but YOU can just ignore offensive material TOO, ah haaaa do you see what I did there?" This basically equates "discussions on magic, which would appear to put Granny in a funny mood, should be avoided by Granny," with "people should ignore religious intolerance and the deliberate use of racial slurs purely to upset people one doesn't like." I suppose from the shicka-shicka-fnord words on a screeen maaaan frea speach position that you've espoused in the past (notably in respect of DEDI getting called on his shit) this is the case, but I'd kind of beg to differ.
(I'm pretty sick, actually, of experiencing gendered harrassment and being told I should "just ignore it." I have been getting this all my life and I will not bloody ignore it. I especially won't ignore it just so Pyewacketts can feel comfy and cosy and don't have to see anything that upsets them.)
I've never claimed to be born perfect and I've never asked anyone else to be perfect, just to show the absolute bare minimum of empathy and rational engagement. Stop throwing around phoney accusations that you can't back up because they are manifestly untrue. That's not what a Trickster does.
You want to be the Trickster? Step up to the goddamn role and play it for real. Play it from a place of insight and sincerity, rather than from a place of ignorance and self-regard. Play it from a place where you--not just the mean nasty greyfaces but you--are being challenged with your issues and are facing your shit every day of your life. Don't just apply comforting narratives to spin what is essentially socially conformist behaviour into being teh coyote!23!!11!.
Till you're prepared to do that, then sorry but yeah you're just another a plastic trickster. |
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