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CelticPrince -> RE: Under Protection???????? (8/5/2009 6:43:56 PM)
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ORIGINAL: CallaFirestormBW
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Not to be picky but isn't that just being a friend?
In when people in the real world go through tough times and need support they don't wander around proclaiming that they are under protection they may ask friends for support or support groups or rely on themselves, the fancy name is melodramatic. In my experience also it is almost exclusively used by people who have just stumbled into wiitwd and are trying so bloody hard to fit in that they use terms like under consideration and under protection and all that stuff
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dimples,
For myself, I have mentored many when they come to me for advice, and one of the points that I make to them is the under protection on line is crap! In real time there is a use for the concept but there it is not normally mentioned.
CP
See, I disagree that it is so cut and dried. As I said earlier, we've taken on some folks whom I wouldn't consider 'friends' (I'm very picky about using that word, and we didn't know them -that- well), and who weren't mentees, students, or associated with our household. Usually, these were folks whom we were recommended to because we were active in the community and had folks going to almost all the local events, so having someone tag along under our protection wasn't a huge deal.
Like Alexandra, sometimes these folks just needed someone to intercede for them, as they knew themselves well enough to know that they weren't good at saying -no- if the "do it" was couched firmly enough. In a couple of cases, there was sufficient reason to worry about potential danger that 'protection' wasn't overstated by any stretch of the imagination.
If you don't like the term, don't use it -- but it can't be completely discounted just because -some- jackoffs use the premise inappropriately. We, however, will continue to use the term and provide the resource wherever it seems appropriate to do so.
Dame Calla
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See, I disagree that it is so cut and dried. As I said earlier, we've taken on some folks whom I wouldn't consider 'friends' (I'm very picky about using that word, and we didn't know them -that- well), and who weren't mentees, students, or associated with our household. Usually, these were folks whom we were recommended to because we were active in the community and had folks going to almost all the local events, so having someone tag along under our protection wasn't a huge deal.
Like Alexandra, sometimes these folks just needed someone to intercede for them, as they knew themselves well enough to know that they weren't good at saying -no- if the "do it" was couched firmly enough. In a couple of cases, there was sufficient reason to worry about potential danger that 'protection' wasn't overstated by any stretch of the imagination.
If you don't like the term, don't use it -- but it can't be completely discounted just because -some- jackoffs use the premise inappropriately. We, however, will continue to use the term and provide the resource wherever it seems appropriate to do so.
Calla,
OK I will not use it cause I do nott like it but it will still chap my ass when I read it.
CP
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