On 'fraidy cats:
Feb. 21st, 2008 03:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It would seem that I have no capacity for snark. I can't stand to read the comments on articles on Slog, or Line Out, or the P-I's site, or on seattle even.
What I hate is a) people making inflammatory comments anonymously, and b) people, who's positions I might actually support, making their point in such a ham-fisted way as to alienate anyone they might persuade, including me.
If you post something inflammatory or accusatory, I think you should have the cajones to sign your name (or in these cases, add a valid email address) to it. Take ownership of your statements. Do not be a little bitch who flings poo and then hides. And please do not allow conversations to immediately dissolve into "You suck!...no you suck!"
If I was one of those people who got off on debating, playing the devil's advocate, or was a political gadfly, maybe I'd feel different. I can't say for sure, because I am none of these things. Maybe someone can enlighten me on the appeal of this.
OK, I'm going to go look at baaaaabyanimals now.
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Date: 2008-02-21 11:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-22 12:09 am (UTC)(By "pride", I mean "nads".)
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Date: 2008-02-22 03:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-22 06:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-22 10:34 pm (UTC)I tend to think of anyone who bullies or flames or is generally an asshole as a major pussy in real life. Actually, I take that back. The use of the word pussy is an insult to vaginas everywhere. And why does "vaginas" come up as misspelled on the LJ spell check? I'm not going to be pretentious and say "vaginae". Sorry. I would say that people who use the Internet as a practicing ground for aggression are usually major cowards in real life who are too milquetoast and lacking in balls/ovaries to assert themselves constructively.
That's my armchair therapist take on it.