Barbelith Underground > Comic Books > Grant Morrison Interview @ Suicide Girls

Finderwolf, he said with near-psychotic indulgence, if you don’t want people to insult your intelligence, and frankly after having on occasion to be told which forum you are posting in I’m astonished you are not more appreciative of how infrequently it has happened, then start by showing some. Intelligence is from the Latin intelligere - to understand. Read what other people write. Then try to understand it. So far you have repeatedly stated what you believe I have said, without at any point actually showing any evidence that you have done more then skim for keywords in what I have actually said. I find this disrespectful and insulting, and it suggests either that you are not interested in understanding or not able to understand your interlocutors, adding an enormous drag factor to any discussion you choose to enmire.

Did I say you were letting George get away with “saying something bad”? I did not. I said that you were infantilising George by refusing to accept that it was possible that he could cope with being in any way accountable for saying something silly - that you demand for him the right to “take the piss”, but deny it to anyone else in case it hurts what you appear to believe are George’s paper-thin feelings, be that about his wedding or his tendency to say somewhat titheaded things in interviews. I never mentioned your fragile worldview. I said that you credited George with such fragility that he needed to be protected from any possible challenge. And, most of all, I am not saying “you are all mindless fuckwits” or “you are all mindless sheep”. I despise that approach to argument and to people. I am saying that you, you specifically, Finderwolf, not everyone, not the mass, but you have a relationship to comprehension so frosty as to make Morrissey and Marr look like Hope and Crosby.

How, for example, does the response:

Nope

to the statement

I know Haus believes we are missing some subtle (or not so subtle) horrible prejudice here in Grant's statement and we are misguided racists or whatever

Then invite the unexamined restatement:

I don't feel that I'm letting Grant get away with saying something bad in this instance

Followed, hilariously, by:

. I don't take kindly to people telling me what I REALLY think when I feel I've made myself clear.

My. heart. bleeds.

Are you on dog crack?

You have no idea how much pain this apparent hatred of meaning causes me. It almost makes me regret the love I feel for your lop-eared, railing-adjacent enthusiasm.