To the end of trying to understand what the rules of engagement even are, I offer myself up for an example for criticism in establishing what the rules are supposed to be. [Thank you sir. May I have another?]
So I accidentally started the Bad Eagle anti-Massacre Movement, cheesing off a good many people. I apparently sinned fairly significantly by not being sufficiently offended by the childish racial jabs of this guy David Yeagley.…
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— go to most recent comments26 - Eric Olsen
A worthy approach - please note the gorilla picture was put back up at some point and the diatribe against black people intensified. I don't believe you will find anyone willing to concede anything like good will toward the mentioned subject.
27 - Mac Diva
Kissy kissy with Barger already, Eric? Haven't noticed any arrogance in his personality though he is bursting with it, have you? But that is fine because white men are entitled to be any way they want to. But . . . there's no racism here.
28 - Dawn
While I am inclined to ignore this:
"It and Barger's depraved behavior are what Eric Olsen, a man who should be depicted in the dictionary next to the word 'coward,' is defending."
I can't. Mac, either shut the hell up with that kind of fucking crap, or you can deal with me. I will take all kinds of shit from people, but don't insult a person just because they aren't willing to things EXACTLY the way you do.
I am not nearly as diplomatic and you are being an asshole.
29 - Tom
"You sit down...You've had your say, and now I'm gonna have mine!!!!"
30 - Tom
That didn't work, it was supposed to have a picture of Howard Dean blowing his cork
31 - Shark
MacAttack: So, an overt racist has been around black people."
Reality Check:
SHOW ME ONE STATEMENT I'VE MADE THAT'S OVERTLY RACIST AND I'LL LEAVE BLOGCRITICS FOREVER.
here's a link to my body of work
If you can't come up with one, you leave forever.
DEAL?
heh.
32 - Mac Diva
Too many to list, cretin. But, you are not worth the trouble. I have no interest in your body of work or your body, unless it is mouldering in a grave.
33 - Tom
That looks like a threat.
34 - Mac Diva
Not at all, but if I were to hear of his demise, which I wouldn't because I have no identifying information, I would not care. However, Shark did wish me dead on another thread. Do you feel a need to chatise him for that?
35 - Tom
If I knew about it, I surely would. Which thread?
36 - Shark
Exterior: DAY -
DAWN breaks over a stormy landscape: cue "Ride of the Valkyries"
Close-up: two steely eyes staring from beneath the brim of a dented army helmet.
VOICE OVER: Mac, either shut the hell up with that kind of fucking crap, or you can deal with me. I will take all kinds of shit from people, but don't insult a person just because they aren't willing to things EXACTLY the way you do.
Cut to: hand reaching for keyboard;
Close-up: eyes narrow with concentration;
Close-up: fingers pounding keyboard;
Cut to blood splattering against a brick wall;
Close-up: Dawn blows smoke from her mouse and slowly slides it back into its holster.
Cut to Shark huddled behind an IMAC; eyes peer over screen.
DAWN makes quick move with her hand, Shark ducks, Dawn pulls out small half-smoked stogie, bites off the end, laughs, and stikes a match.
SHARK: (trembling) I love the smell of a modem burning in the morning... it's the smell of victory.
37 - BB
I wish to make clear that I consider Yeagley to be a racist and I believe that most reasonable people concur. Nor did I defend Mr. Barger's position. However, that does not justify rant's made by MD and that is the point I have tried to make. End of story, so kindly leave me out of it oh Mouthy one. But if you want to continue your defamatory rhetoric I shall be waiting.
38 - Mark Saleski
dude, get a blog.....yer effin' killing me.
39 - Dawn
Look, I didn't want to say mean things or attack Mac, but GODDAMN, the shit said about Eric, well what kind of human would I be to not declare that an outrage?
I am sure Mac has good reason for being concerned about racism in the world, it certainly exists in many incidious forms and it can be sadly "frustrating" to downright deadly.
But I will be damned if I am going to sit here and let her or anyone slander Eric, a person I know to be a good-hearted, caring human being who is fair and judicious.
Racism exists, but why invent it where it doesn't exist?
40 - Shark
MacAttack: Shark did wish me dead on another thread.
REALITY CHECK #2:
aka: "CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING"
SHARK to DIVA: "...IF, for some unforseen reason, you don't post 20 or 30 cut/paste/insert obvious inane comment ENTRYS someday, thereby taking you off the "leaderboard" (your deluded measure of self-worth)---and you're driven to end your miserable life online because of the shame of NOT BEING the most prolific typist in cyberspace, then I will have been robbed of my dream. So keep posting, dear. If you go nuts, I wanna be the reason."
=========end of excerpt======
I thought it was pretty funny, actually.
41 - BB
"We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant."
...Daniel Boorstin
42 - Mac Diva
You are Eric's wife, for chrissakes. I am someone looking at him from a completely different perspective. What I see is someone being manipulated by the likes of Al Barger and his puppets. And, what is supposed to be so hard about standing up to Barger, anyway? I do it all the time.
43 - Dawn
What Mac, am I too stupid to see him from a perspective other than that of his wife? Believe me, I am Eric's harshest critic, but being able to stand up like a man is not a problem Eric has.
Maybe he doesn't think Al is this racist you claim him to be. I surely don't see it either. I guess that makes me a racist too.
Just stick to the facts and you will have no argument from me.
It's the projecting racism and tarnishing the names of the innocent that I can't understand or accept.
44 - Shark
MacAttack: "You are Eric's wife, for chrissakes. I am someone looking at him from a completely different perspective. What I see is someone being manipulated by the likes of Al Barger and his puppets."
EXTERIOR: NIGHT
Cue Jaws Theme:
Shark reaches for small shovel; frantically begins digging foxhole.<
45 - Ms. Tek
You all need to get laid, I think...
Perhaps with each other?
Love, hate... bastard conjoined twins.
Oh, and I am almost out of goat cheese. Since I will be going to Scotland next Tuesday for a week, I don't think I will buy any more.
This really makes me sad.
46 - Shark
MS TEK: "You all need to get laid, I think..."
(clik, clik, clik)
Sound of 3000 guys quickly scanning the jpgs on TekWh0re.com
(clik, clik, clik)
Sound of 3000 keyboards racing to see who can be the first to post:
"You free tonight?"
======disclaimer=======
This post was in no way intended as:
-racist
-mysogynist
-sexual harassment
-an invitation from a happily married man
-and no animals were harmed in the typing of this entry.
Thanks
----The Management
47 - Dawn
"You all need to get laid, I think...
Perhaps with each other?"
My point exactly, Ms.Tek, but it's hard to be frisky with an angry and cranky bear. Geez people, it's just a nasty comment here or there for you guys, but it's a night of snarly stares and bristling hairs for me.
48 - sydney smith
Regarding sellable content: I don't know what that means. We don't sell anything to anyone. Our sources of income, such as they are, are a small referral fee on items we sell through Amazon, and advertising - the combination of the two do not together even cover operating expenses. This is a deficit operation.
Glad you cleared that up. I was feeling jealous. Beginning to think I was being left out of a Blogcritics bonanza because I'm a woman.....
49 - bhw
I would just like to note that I got laid just yesterday, but not with one of the other BCs. Saved myself for the hubby, I did.
50 - Dawn
me too bhw, me too! 'cept the getting laid part.
51 - bhw
How old is that baby, Dawn? Are you even back in the "it's okay to even think about touching me down there" zone yet? I stretched that post-partum no-touch rule for all it was worth after having my kids!
52 - Dawn
I tried that bhw, but then all you guys would have suffered, and we all want to end Eric's suffering don't we?
I mean that in a nice way.
53 - bhw
And we all know NOTHING ends a guy's suffering like .... :-0
54 - Eric Olsen
There is no suffering like the after-birth (not "afterbirth") suffering of a dutiful husband. (I have heard this is the real reason C-sections were invented, but I digress.) Woe is me. This is a syndrome that deserves an acronym every bit as portentious as PMS.
55 - Joe
Post-partum hmmmm... deprivation, or P-cubed D. And actually, C-sections can be even worse, it's surgery, you know.
56 - Eric Olsen
yes, but .. of forget it. Dawn's here now and giving me the evil eye
57 - bhw
This is a syndrome that deserves an acronym every bit as portentious as PMS.
My husband calls it toxic sperm build-up (TSP), although it's not limited to the post-partum period of time. He says it starts the day after the wedding.
58 - Ms. Tek
Ew.
59 - bhw
That reminds me: When we got engaged, a married friend of ours asked my husband-to-be, "Why are you getting married? So you can stop having sex?"
60 - Chris
Man, get a new job and stop posting for awhile and all hell breaks loose . . .
As a Day Oner here at Blog Critics, I find it interesting that someone who I am assuming was invited to contribute, or hell, just signed up because it is that easy, wants to control the content here and when she doesn't get her way, declares the propertier a weak kneed little girl.
If you don't like it leave. It was threatened before, but alas, a lack of follow through . . . Denounce the site all over the Net. Hell, pull a bag of tricks from your old nemesis at Rittenhouse Review and declare that you will delink any site that links to Blog Critics. But, good freaking grief, get a grip, get over yourself, and get your own blog . . . oh wait, you already have one.
Counting down to a charge of being a neo-confederate racist begins . . . now.
61 - Chris
And, yes, due to the lateness of the hour and length and substance of the day, I am aware that there is a misselpped word in the post above.
62 - HW Saxton Jr.
More than one misselped word it would appear....
63 - Mark Saleski
dat's ok chris, in an earlier comment (#38) i mistook Shark for Bricklayer.
all this racism tizzy has got me confused (either that or the NASCAR after effects)
64 - Mac Diva
Chris, you have never rated that much attention from me. I've considered you a flea, but now you are being demoted to a gnat. I wonder how long it will take your new employer to figure out what I already know and do what the last one did.
And, oh, you forgot to congratulate your pal Barger on his latest 'accidental' racism jaunt.
65 - Shark
Now we know what keeps MacAttack quiet for a few precious hours:
[dawn, bhw, and Joe] talking about sex and relationships.
One could almost picture 'Diva' gritting her teeth while the white noise from her flacid keyboard hummed in the background--- waiting for some poor unsuspecting 'flea' to land in her oversensitive craw.
PS: umm, mac, you're single, right?
heh heh.
66 - Chris
MD --
You keep getting me confused with another Chris (who can't hold down a job I guess). . . we all look alike.
67 - Dawn
Shark, while I may have displayed some righteous indignation over the way the Editor of this site is being mistreated, you sir, are just really mean.
Mac may have pissed you off, but I keep seeing you sink lower and lower to insult her. How far are you willing to sink to make a point?
68 - Joe
I guess now would be the inappropriate moment to go into my episiotomy spiel.
69 - Dawn
spiel on Joe, we're all family.
70 - Joe
Well, if they gotta do it and the husband is present, he really should refrain from requesting extra stitches or the installation of a drawstring.
Just some helpful advice from someone who's been there.
71 - Shark
re: "You sir, are just really mean. Mac may have pissed you off, but I keep seeing you sink lower and lower to insult her. How far are you willing to sink to make a point?"
Here's the deal: I've been falsely accused of being an "overt racist" and 'wishing' her dead. When I asked her to produce one iota of evidence, she replied, "Too many to list, cretin." That's a pretty chicken-shit cop-out relatively serious circumstances.
My question: how far is she willing to sink to make a point?
Lower than calling Eric a spineless coward, "deaf and blind as well as lacking a backbone", "Barger-Lite", and a few other pretty friggin' low blows? She even stooped so low as to *equate him with a participant in a LYNCHING PARTY!
* Diva on Eric: "...Just like all those white people who made parties of lynchings and then claimed only the men who did the actual hanging were responsible."
Frankly, I've participated in various writer boards since 1994, and I've never seen such a tiny but prolific tail wag such a big dog as Blogcritics.
She throws the 'racist' tag around like it's a hot frisbee; that's a strong word to be using on a daily basis in a public forum. (a thread killer, too) She tries to humiliate just about everyone she encounters, and stoops to name-calling at the drop of a mouse.
Most people seem content with letting her off the hook, but I'm not going to be bullied, harassed, and have my name dragged through the mud in public without a response.
I try to do it with humor (picture me typing with a big ol' smile on my face), but she has no problem with settin' loose the hounds, so sometimes I start channeling my inner-pit-bull in defense.
ruff-ruff.
I'll tether the little beast when she does.
(or as you stated earlier: "either shut the hell up with that kind of fucking crap, or you can deal with me.")
72 - Al Barger
Dawn, I must defend Shark here. I'm trying not unnecessarily provoke our unhappy camper, but what she's gotten here in the last few days is pretty mild treatment. Considering the last week of pure hostile hysterics she has subjected us to (right up to #64 here), comment 65 is not especially harsh. 'You need to get laid' is a pretty common rejoinder here- even just on this thread (ie #45). Not an especially harsh jab. Not 1% of the kind of foolishness she's subjected the rest of us to.
In short, having long extended hissy fits does NOT entitle you to special consideration. You should in fact expect quite the opposite.
Then again, I'd best shut up, lest she decide to go back into tirade mode- and then I'd be the bad guy.
Not that I wasn't Evil Incarnate before.
73 - Dawn
That sounds fair, I just don't like to see someone ganged up on. Can't we all move on?
74 - Shark
HEY EVERYBODY!
BARGER'S BACK!
(*Shark drawing a big ol' target on Al's back and running for cover)
*gang of one
75 - Al Barger
Come and get me, coppers!