Spill Your Guts: What You Really Think About MB members

GuitarBizarre · 06-13-2014, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Junkyard Donner

Seriously though, my position is simple:

gender is fluid, sentient beings have inalienable rights, what you learned in Sunday school or at the dinner table from your folks is not the end-all be-all - being alive is hard for everyone, don't make it harder for others, help when you can, stand up for others, don't stifle anyone, every voice deserves to be heard.

Good position. I have difficulty reconciling your stated attitude with parts of it though. I would consider standing up for others and helping when you can to be something that would result in political motivation and a drive to promote good causes actively in those places where they're both relevant and also likely to be addressed rather than dismissed. Your earlier position seems to be a responsive one rather than a proactive one, and I imagine that can only come about one of two ways:

1 - As a fallible human being, you don't have the spare energy and capability to persistently promote your good cause, and have resorted to channeling that energy into reflexive discussions about specific injustices. This is a perfectly good reason, since after all, nobody can support every good cause at the same time - I just have problems with the way you go about it, as discussed.

2 - You're actually hyper politically active outside of this forum and for some reason, presumably some semblance of privacy, you choose not to share it with us.

WWWP · 06-13-2014, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre

Good position. I have difficulty reconciling your stated attitude with parts of it though. I would consider standing up for others and helping when you can to be something that would result in political motivation and a drive to promote good causes actively in those places where they're both relevant and also likely to be addressed rather than dismissed. Your earlier position seems to be a responsive one rather than a proactive one, and I imagine that can only come about one of two ways:

1 - As a fallible human being, you don't have the spare energy and capability to persistently promote your good cause, and have resorted to channeling that energy into reflexive discussions about specific injustices. This is a perfectly good reason, since after all, nobody can support every good cause at the same time - I just have problems with the way you go about it, as discussed.

2 - You're actually hyper politically active outside of this forum and for some reason, presumably some semblance of privacy, you choose not to share it with us.

Both are accurate to some degree. I've shared a lot of my experiences with the members I'm close to on this forum. The real reason I keep it to real life though is that I'm completely passionate and enthusiastic about these issues and discussing them at length on this forum tends to make me just see red and it often results in an infraction. We're all learning.