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point of being subservient and servile, but because I dared criticize their page, I MUST
be one of those oppressors who can't stand that she's putting up the truth on her page. Her
Priestess said that 9 million died and logic no longer enters the picture.
And God help you if you are actually making fun of them on another site to blow off
steam. I'm a member of a group who posts different pagan sites on a list for members to
rate as to the quality of the writing, their knowledge of Paganism and Judeo-Christianity
and how verifiable their facts are, as well as website design. Admittedly, many of the
sites that are reviewed are fluffy and some are really ragged on, but to be fair the good
sites, no matter how bad the beliefs expressed, are usually rated highly.
But when the fluffy under examination finds out their site is a "bad" one, they join up,
review their OWN site, and rate it highly (duh) and then get 20-50 of their close friends
to do the same thing, and call us meanies all the time, telling us how we are wrong, bad,
evil, LHPers, idiots, one-true-wayish, how we are misogynistic, repressive, hidebound
and so on till we just want to strangle them all. The owner of the site that does this has
shared a few of the more choice e-mails and they are frightening in their fluffishness.
Point out ONE error and the world ends.
But it's not just constructive criticism that is taken so wrongly(thanks Noddy for this), it's
ANY comment that can be seen as critical. For instance, try this test.
Join a list or just a public chat.
Wait for someone to ask a question like "I don't like kids. Does this affect my
relationship with the Goddess?"
Let the fluffies have their say.
Take a position counter to what they took (like saying "Not at all.
The Goddess understands that there are some who don't feel the call to be mothers and
fathers. Good for you that you know this, instead of being a bad parent.")
Watch the list go ape-shit all over you. (have an asbestos suit handy) Get stock in the
manufacturers of Fire-Extinguishers (you will be rich) The flame war will be unlike
anything you have ever seen. You will witness 60 year old people turning into bratty 5
year olds before your very eyes, you will see your words twisted like a Chinese metal
puzzle, you will witness group attacks that make the Nazi Panzer blitz vs. the Polish
Calvary (still on horseback and wielding sabers) look fair in comparison. You will be
called all kinds of insulting names, your sexuality will be questioned, you will be told
that you are NOT really ________ because how could say something like that and be that
cruel.
You will hear from the pro-lifers (yes, Wicca has them too. [sigh] ) who will tell you that
you support ripping children out of the womb in late pregnancy abortions and that you
have no clue what the Rede is about. You will be favorably compared with those evil
LHPers and ignored.
Mind you this will probably happen in just a few minutes if you are in a chatroom, and
you will have no chance to defend yourself. If it's an e-mail list, you will have it happen
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