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Right Claris, I want to make something abundantly clear. This is a thread, among others, in which you have been questioned consistently. You have the whole of the thread to look at, you could go back, copy the questions and respond to them, in fact you could have used your intiative and already answered them. Likewise you could have popped into Feminism 101 or Ron Paul and responded to the questions and comments there. You have not done that, your answers here have been trivial rather than detailed, you haven't even particularly engaged with Yo in spite of his measured, compassionate engagement with you.
When I look at these threads I do not approach them with the lynch in my hand, they make me sad because I always hope that people will be a little shocked by them or find them provocative in a good way. Every single time (almost) I hope someone will think "well shit, that's not what I meant, how can I get it across that I'm not racist/sexist/generalising." It so rarely happens, in fact people usually generalise things more as if it's going to extricate them. For a while I thought we were being too aggressive, too unwilling to let people explain and we were obstructing them but we don't have time to be that compassionate because we need to find the solution and stop dealing with the problem constantly, it's too damaging and it burns all the energy that we could use to make our brains more beautiful. If I'm going to continue engaging here, which hasn't happened much over the last 8 months, I need to be able to engage with the good and you infringe horribly on that ability because your lack of self-examination and awareness means that your writing hurts people.
I can't hear racist and sexist generalisations of the type that you've been writing, the types of feelings you express about the violation of people's bodies, the stark inability to recognise basic inequality, without feeling tremendously weary. It's not just me. People here are rude because they really think that you're too stupid to read what you've written from any perspective except your own and this isn't talking, this isn't "that slipped out and I meant it like this..." for one thing there is no like this, you mean what you say and the other thing is that you can stop, read back and review whether your thoughts have been expressed clearly because you're writing them down. Sometimes we still get it wrong but I think it's the explanations that count and yours have sucked. Those are the reasons why I hope you'll go now because your heart just isn't here and I don't think you want it to be. This is a place of investment, we all invest in it, it's changing, we're not bunny ears anymore, there's not the fluff, it's been too much, so go. |
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