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I'm taking a break from this forum

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  • 23-12-2010 8:05pm
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    deirdre_dub
    Registered Users Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭


    I've decided to join my good friend Links and take a break from this forum.
    Johnnymcg wrote: »
    deirdre_dub wrote:
    If you "just don't see" one of the most fundamental aspects of the trans experience, then surely you can see the reasons why you should consider not posting to trans-related discussions?
    hang on a second here - - This is an LGBT forum and I appreciate that Bostons posts have been very much personally attacking but posts like this have the potential to create a culture of only trans people are allowed post in trans threads and deepen the apparent problem that Eebs suggested earlier that this forum seems to becoming Us V Them.
    Sorry to burst your bubble, Johnny, but there is already an "us versus them" here.

    The "us" is "lgbt and anyone respectful towards lgbt", and the "them" is "those who want to come on here and tell others how they should feel and who they actually are". Apparently, there is a view out there that I'm one of the "them".

    In any case - I'm tired of having what I write constantly turned on it's head, and of the attacks on my character.


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    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 41,062 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    deirdre_dub wrote: »
    I've decided to join my good friend Links and take a break from this forum.


    Sorry to burst your bubble, Johnny, but there is already an "us versus them" here.

    The "us" is "lgbt and anyone respectful towards lgbt", and the "them" is "those who want to come on here and tell others how they should feel and who they actually are". Apparently, there is a view out there that I'm one of the "them".

    In any case - I'm tired of having what I write constantly turned on it's head, and of the attacks on my character.
    Deirdre, I'm genuinely sorry you took this decision. I hope it's not a permanent break

    I don't view you as 'one of them'

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    MUSSOLINI wrote: »
    Im sure there is a better way to deal with the issues than another "Screw you guys I'm going home" thread.

    Drama or not, there's a quote that goes "The only winning move is not to play."

    It's from Wargames, an 80's movie with Matthew Broderick.


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    MicraBoy
    Registered Users Posts: 916 ✭✭✭MicraBoy


    I call for a change to the forum rules. Bans for all threads of this ilk. This sort of Gairean nonsense is not appreciated on boards.ie


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    wonderfulname
    Registered Users Posts: 3,943 ✭✭✭wonderfulname


    I must agree with Micra up there, Links at least gave us food for thought, would your message not have been better suited to that thread than as a new one?


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    Dr. Baltar
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭Dr. Baltar


    We stand together as a community. Some within and without wish to break that bond. I say look at that which binds us together not that which tears us apart.


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    FruitLover
    Registered Users Posts: 2,534 ✭✭✭FruitLover


    Rosie??


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    Dr. Baltar
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭Dr. Baltar


    FruitLover wrote: »
    Rosie??

    :confused:


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    Rev Hellfire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭Rev Hellfire


    FruitLover wrote: »
    Rosie??

    There is that sense of Déjà vu...


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    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Threads of this sort are best suited to the Feedback forum.


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