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MadameMarque -> RE: Being insulted by strangers on this site (7/25/2006 2:37:44 PM)
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On being threatened, being insulted, and the question of what is an insult or offense:
+ Regarding the threatening tone of the message you recieved, I would report it to collarme administrators. Though these remarks probably do not constitute a criminal threat, reporting it will allow someone to verify the email address and therefore, the IP, of the sender, for future reference, should law enforcement need that information.
Both you and the person sending the message (who may be neither female nor 18) need to know that a third party has such information, so that they also realize that they are not able to hide behind their online anonymity, should they want to harass you in real life.
+ Regarding ill behaviour, online, yes, there are many "big" men and women hiding behind their keyboards, happy to make sniping or smug or offensive remarks, - even threats, - reassured that they won't have to walk their talk, by showing their shameful faces to the people to whom they talk so big.
+ As to the question of whether you have insulted anyone in your profile, MIslostsoul, I must, as a woman, point out to you that you certainly offend me, with such remarks as this quote you have included:
[The following is not my quote, please read this entire message, to clarify - Mme. Marque]
"Being born a WOMAN
is being born into nothingness.
If it weren't that your body-home
insures the continuance of the species
You might as well not have been born"
As is usually the case with sexism, if you would like to test whether a statement is really offensive, you must try substituting people of a certain race, creed, or nationality, for the words "female," "girl," and "woman," for it is a sad fact that most people are so desensitized to the persecution of women that they cannot tell an insult to a woman, when they hear or read it.
I wish you well. Hopefully, you will take necessary precautions, then disengage immediately, from interaction with ill influences, such as the one you've mentioned. You may find that the 'bottom-feeders' that pass thru your life, addicted to causing drama, sink to the bottom quickly enough, if they do not find a foothold in your life.
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification.
- Helen Rowland
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