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Now - we have to contend that if we are polite - we are being 'Politically Correct'.
If we disagree and say so - then we aren't being supportive - or we are even sicker than the sickness of BDSM!
If we disagree and really want to sink our teeth in, we will start a witch hunt.
These things that you are ranting about have little to do with our common interest denominator other than some of them were brought up in relevance to wiitwd, although I think that how we feel at the very core of the issue is what was really being discussed. I got from the PC thread, not that anyone was trying to devalue the principle of politeness....but that they were asking whether we have taken that to such a far extreme that politeness has now obscured truth. Yes, in this instance it was asked in relationship to wiitwd....but the answers can't be exclusive to that for they reflect how we feel about PC'ness in general. It stands out as an example of how, even in light of our common denominator interests, we are not cookie cutter copies of others who share those same interests. I can only address the last one as that is the one where you were clearly referring to the thread I started on witch hunts.
That thread had nothing whatsoever to do with wiitwd. I could have asked the same questions on a PEZ collectors message board....or any other "community" board. The thread was started to ask why there are malicious and vindictive people who set out with the intention of hurting other people....and to ask why the rest of us allow ourselves to be caught up in the drama. Now there were a few people who understood the questions I was asking, then there were some who went so far as to imply, despite my many attempts to keep it on a very general level, that I was a malicious, vindictive person whose agenda was really to go after other malicious, vindictive people....and then there were some who stepped into it to try to actually use the thread as a medium to further be malicious and vindictive. It ended up that I simply walked away from it because it wasn't even worth my time trying to untwist what it was being twisted into.
Now everyone on that thread may have indeed had some common denominator interests in wiitwd....but you can see from that example that does not mean we are all even remotely alike. Just because we are all kinky people who read the same words....that doesn't mean that any of us have to get sucked into, conform to, think like or even derive the same meanings of anyone else that responded.
