Oh dear

[trinityvixen]

I seemed to have stepped in it with folk earlier today on several levels. I sorta joked it off, but it's bugging me, which means I'm still being an asshole and I know it. So, I do apologize for anyone's hurt feelings. Nothing was meant as a personal attack, but where it came off as such, again, I apologize. I shall work better at not letting my generalizations get away from me to the point of being insulting.

In future, perhaps, I should wait until I'm less pissed off by things I'm writing about to, you know, write about them.

Comments

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Please never let fear of offending others make you forget the wisdom of Cordelia Chase: "Tact is just not saying true stuff."

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yes. I cannot tell a lie: religions suck, and I wouldn't venture south of the Mason-Dixon line if you paid me.

HOLY HELL I AM KIDDING, F'LIST, DON'T KILL ME.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

I swear, the next time someone calls me easily offended? I'm going to point out to them the fact that I have been friends with you for some ungodly number of years and haven't yet imploded, ergo, I must not be easily offended at all. :P

[shell524.livejournal.com]

*shrugs* Generalizations are almost always problematic. If you'd even added just "religious whackjob" to your Southerner generalization, I'd agree. The religious whackjobs in the South are of a particularly vile brand. But, ya know, what else can I expect from a Yankee? ;p

By the way, did you know that The Time Traveler's Wife is missing pages 291-322? It's like that section was left out when it was published or something....

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Hey, you survived because you're equally offensive and you know it. Also, if not for me toughening you up, you'd never have been able to marry your husband so :P!!!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

True about that. Nutjob should have been appended to everything I wrote pretty much yesterday. Us Yankees, as you put it, have a little stored-up hostility towards the more conservative belts which makes that unstated "PSYCHOS!" usually understood when speaking, not so much in writing.

The copy of The Time Traveler's Wife I got was from an estate sale. I didn't actually read that version myself. Oh well, I guess you can keep that one :)

[shell524.livejournal.com]

I guess I have to go hang out at B&N this afternoon and read the missing 31 pages. :p

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yikes, that's a large span. Sorry dude!

[hslayer.livejournal.com]

No worries! It's part of what makes needling you about feminism a worthwhile pursuit. You take it as well as you dish it out, so go nuts. (Aside from the fact that it's almost impossible to offend me with non-personal attacks.)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I do mean it to come back to me as much as I dish out, which I realize is a system not everybody uses. As a result, I sort of try to walk the line of "don't offend if possible, but mock stupid babies who cry about anything." Which, if I'm not careful, can cross the line with people who don't appreciate that. So, apologies and an attempt to do it better is what I can do (I doubt I could remove the "I know you are, but what am I?" mentality at this point if I tried.)