From: lovegod@wam.umd.edu (Lovegod)
Subject: Re: Introduction
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 00:39:08 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.054754.250@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
} In article <1992Aug19.134931.592@fig.citib.com> glp@fig.citib.com (Greg  
Parkinson) writes:
} >|> >Because bitterness and blase cruelty are ugly.  
} >|> Oh, please.  Arne's comments were about the mildest form of
} >|> "cruelty" I can imagine.  It's preposterous to describe them
} >|> with these words.
} >Steve, you've proven you have a singular idea of
} >what an appropriate response is to someone who posts
} >something personal. 
} 
} Greg, that was underserved and unfeeling, but I forgive you because
} we're dear friends.  Actually, this is proof you can be insulted by
} something even when you don't have the first idea of what the person
} means.  What *are* you referring to?  Hey, I didn't say that Arne's
} comment was "appropriate" (I refuse to be the arbiter of content even
} as it's thrust (unggh), thrust (ahh) upon me), I said that it didn't
} strike me as horrible as it's being described now.
} 
} >|> >Arne, you're a smart, witty, worldly person.
} >|> >I don't understand why you find it necessary 
} >|> >to be so toxic to people who really don't deserve it.
} 
} Did you say "toxic"?  Not the t-word.  Next we'll be hearing the
} r-word.  And I DON'T want to talk to your inner child.
} 
} >|> I think you have an Arne-bug up your butt, Greg.
} >Maybe I do, but I don't think it's just me.  He posts
} >enough to influence the overall feeling of soc.motss,
} >and the feeling (for me, at least) is not a good one.
} 
} I think you have an Arne-bug up your butt, Greg.
} 
} You're talking as if this quip from Arne somehow
} characterizes his postings in general, and that's
} both manifestly unfair and an outright distortion.
} What is it, Greg?  The references to Hollywood and
} Broadway stars?  The quick wit?  I think Arne posts
} enough to influence the overall feeling of soc.motss
} and I think it's wonderful.  I always make a point
} of reading his articles, and I'm rarely disappointed.
} I'm glad he is someone with enough character and
} presence of mind to hear these comments and know
} what to do with them (which is, I'd guess, extract
} whatever's good from them and dismiss the rest.)
}

I suppose that's your opinion.  Like Arne's use of acrid quips against someone  
he barely knows is somehow  psychologically nutritrious for the soc.motss  
audience ...
 
} >That's fine, and I decided to not respond to things
} >he wrote that I didn't like - but one of important
} >functions of this newsgroup is to support our own.
} >To be mean to someone for sport because they haven't
} >your flair or because they are clumsy with how they
} >express themselves - that I don't want to sit back and let go by. 
} 
} I can't disagree with this sentiment, speaking generally.  I'd just
} like to know what you want to get out of this discussion.  Arne's
} head?
} 

Does "can't disagree" mean agree?

} >It makes me angry that among the (large n) number
} >of people who read soc.motss there are now some 
} >people who have been trying to screw up the courage 
} >to post, to talk to other gay people, other lesbians, 
} >and now maybe won't - because they see soc.motss as
} >not just an angry place, or a place with high
} >standards of thought (and grammar), but a
} >mean and unfriendly place.
} 
} I think you're about 6 years too late.
}

It seems that everytime I post something, I get a lot of misguided animosity.
 
} Fer Christ's sakes, Donald/Lovegod isn't even a newbie here.
} He posts like clockwork every six months or so.  I just wish
} he'd get over the aching youth/"I am AfroPomoHomo see me roar"
} act, and decide to say something intelligent in addition to that.
}

Every six months or so?  Well, I guess this would be my second installment.   
What the fuck do you know about me?  Not enough to condense or limit my  
everyday life to my posts.  I thought this would be a good place for support,  
but for the most part, it's been a hellhole of me defending myself against who?

Other Gay men ... Go figure ...

Donald