*flails*
So you probably already know this, but. There is stupidity afoot on the internets, and witchqueen's post right here will tell you about it. And some of the comments to her post, and in various other places, will... also be quite telling.
I can't get past *flail* on this one, so for further commentary I'm handing you over to liviapenn's link post, seperis' link post, and also to this thoughtful post from elynross about words, power, freedom and responsibility.
ETA that okay, I got past *flail* when I read a d_d mod's comments in flamewarrior's lj. Now I think my head might explode. "No offence was intended, but honestly, if sensible people (like you) had alerted us to the fact that there was someone out there who felt really, honestly hurt, then it would have been a quite different matter..."
A sensible person did alert them. She said, this is hurtful and it makes me angry. But apparently that was too difficult to understand.
I can't get past *flail* on this one, so for further commentary I'm handing you over to liviapenn's link post, seperis' link post, and also to this thoughtful post from elynross about words, power, freedom and responsibility.
ETA that okay, I got past *flail* when I read a d_d mod's comments in flamewarrior's lj. Now I think my head might explode. "No offence was intended, but honestly, if sensible people (like you) had alerted us to the fact that there was someone out there who felt really, honestly hurt, then it would have been a quite different matter..."
A sensible person did alert them. She said, this is hurtful and it makes me angry. But apparently that was too difficult to understand.