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Post by RoselaTouche on Jan 30, 2016 14:28:51 GMT -6
Ooh, that is interesting. I love the HBO presents Game of Drama of the AG world because I can't remember all the characters at any given time but enough pop up that at any given time at least one has to be interesting.
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Post by pantalaimon on Jan 31, 2016 22:39:12 GMT -6
i noticed too, but i'd feel bad calling them out because they've been dealing with shit.
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Post by RoselaTouche on Feb 1, 2016 15:26:01 GMT -6
I think I'm just getting progressively more awkward there. I used to be mostly socially competent, I swear.
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Post by Farraige on Feb 2, 2016 13:37:52 GMT -6
Yeah, I don't really feel excited about the prospect of calling this person out because they haven't exactly had it easy and I don't go out of my way to be a dick if it's unwarranted. But it is really, really interesting that nobody has called them out on their lily-white army of 20+ dolls when similar collections have been criticised by multiple people in the abstract.
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Post by pantalaimon on Feb 6, 2016 17:15:00 GMT -6
maybe it's just me but i can now totally feel the tension and notice who the "favourites" are. and i don't feel as welcome as i felt in the beginning. or maybe i'm just being extra sensitive lately.
also i don't like how r*pe is always used as punishment. it makes me soooo incredibly uncomfortable and i nearly blew up when it was implied recently, but i'm glad i didn't.
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Post by RoselaTouche on Feb 6, 2016 18:59:29 GMT -6
Yeah, I'm glad neither of us blew up about rape as punishment because it's 100% not okay but still, people often say it because they themselves are sexual assault victims (which I maintain a large amount of MRA's probably are as well, hence their... entire behavior.) Still, I am happy that there's a rule here about not doing that because, yeah, [to anyone/everyone] don't advocate rape! Just don't do it. Honestly, as someone who studies some amount of law (primarily creation but some implementation, interpretation, evolution, etc) it makes me uncomfortable as fuck when someone says [insert cruel&unusual punishment] should happen to anyone, but not when people say "I want to [cruel&unusual single person vigilante punishment] [bad person]" because it has no legal or mob justice implications. Personal quirk, I know, but I think at least related to my strong "words mean things" belief.
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Post by pantalaimon on Feb 6, 2016 19:27:55 GMT -6
i've never thought about that (wishing r*pe as punishment on someone being a consequence of being sexually assaulted), it makes sense because when I was a teen I used to use it because I wanted revenge. I'm glad I don't do that any more. I mean I definitely still want revenge but I'll never say "hope they get ______"
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Post by Farraige on Feb 11, 2016 3:16:07 GMT -6
@pan, I can feel the tension too sometimes. I don't feel as though I'm unwelcome explicitly, but I keep worrying I'll say the wrong thing. Some of that may just be my own brain being a dick, though.
I agree with both you and Rose about how awful it is for people to say that people like MRAs deserve rape as a punishment. NOBODY deserves to be raped. Nobody.
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Post by pantalaimon on Feb 14, 2016 0:39:52 GMT -6
is it just me or person-who-triggered-me only comes online to nitpick posts/tell others that they said something problematic?
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Post by Farraige on Feb 15, 2016 20:43:50 GMT -6
They do post other things, but they do turn up to make critical comments quite a bit.
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Post by pantalaimon on Feb 27, 2016 19:05:54 GMT -6
it has come to a point where i...barely trust anyone on there. i mean really if they don't care when a member explicitly says they don't feel safe because of another member being around...just reminds me of how the adults never believed me when i said another person was hurting me. i don't know why i expected anything different.
and i think people are allowed to say they don't like humans without being reprimanded with some kumbaya garbage like "not all humans are like that" (which...duh, obviously, but we can understand why someone would feel this way.)
sorry i just miss being able to interact with rose, elewys, val, phin like it was before, in one area. also i'm sick, so sorry.
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Post by Farraige on Mar 13, 2016 19:07:02 GMT -6
I miss everyone interacting in the same place, too. (I wonder if a FB chat thread/group might work?)
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Post by pantalaimon on Mar 16, 2016 12:29:33 GMT -6
i'll go wherever you all go because i've been feeling...unwelcome there. especially with the american election. maybe it's just my anxiety but i feel like people are mad because i'm a non-american talking about my fears for your elections.
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Post by Farraige on Mar 30, 2016 14:44:46 GMT -6
I'm definitely not mad at you at all, Pan! I like your insight, and honestly, because of US military and soft power, the elections here don't just affect those of us living stateside. Believe me, I'm scared of Trump and Cruz too!
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Post by pantalaimon on Apr 9, 2016 5:58:26 GMT -6
i miss rose, i hope they are okay.
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