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2:35pm June 1, 2014

I can count at least two references to the length of my post, in attempts to say people shouldn’t listen to me.

But that’s not ableist at all, is it?

Also, one attempt to tell me that if I’d actually worked with people in a large group blog then I’d remember all of their names as well as personal data on all of them.

No, not ableist at all.

What I don’t get is how it is that one fight on the Internet isn’t allowed to die.  That it’s considered acceptable to try to cut me off from allies and communities that I’ve had a good relationship with, by twisting the facts about what happened to make me sound like, rather than one fight with one person (in which lots of misunderstandings occurred on both sides, but only one side ever apologized for anything), I had some habit of fighting a specific type of person, over and over.  This is all quite manipulative and none of it helps anyone.

And so nobody is allowed to agree with me, on anything, without being considered possibly colluding with me in my ongoing hatred of a certain type of people.  So now they have to say “oops, sorry, we won’t help you in your quest to set the record straight about ableist words, because you had a fight with someone once and someone has found a roundabout way to connect the two even though there’s no connection whatsoever”.

This is petty.  And stupid.  And should have died when the fight died.

And I have people contacting me in private, people who were there at the time of the fight, who wish they could stand up for me but don’t feel like they have the energy right now.  Which says everything.

Notes:
  1. clatterbane said: What lichgem said. This is ludicrous, and you’d hope people would at least recognize the style of behavior after middle school. It does just feel like middle school. *shudder*
  2. fullyarticulatedgoldskeleton said: This is fucking horrible and ridiculous and I’m so sorry you’re being subjected to this.
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