“ Oh please, Armsley! People were simply commenting on a fictional character. Since no one truly knows her motives and intentions yet, it's a topic of discussion. You chose to draw conclusions from that and insult real people, while attempting some moral high-ground? Please... Those who can't distinguish fiction from real life are much more disturbing, " --- KD
Part One:
Fictional vs. Real Characters To Assess Our Emotionally Energized Responses To Them
KD:
I don’t agree with Armsley on any topic --- in effect, a prissy, nagging guy who attacked me with fatuous inanity within seconds of my first innocuous post in this HBO forum a few days ago . . . one of the several touch-testy gays who, along with a handful of women groupies, seem to monopolize about 75% of the posts in every thread, dozens of them. (The other posters, a couple of hundred or so --- overwhelmingly women, it seems --- are far more intelligent and thoughtful, just as they are much skillful at expressing their views in good clear writing.)
Brief Clarification for Buggy Prof Visitors (Added March 29th, 2008)
Hard to say for sure what ailed these guys. Most likely, they couldn't’t stand a confident heterosexual guy horning in on their sputtering tete-a-tetes with the girls; bad bad hetero- boy, right? Anyway, they quickly became good fodder for some amused teasing on my part. Couldn't help it, they were asking for it! What a riot! What fun!
Anyway --- or did I just say that? ---it’s their right, if they want, to struggle with raw identity issues and envisage themselves as women and go around parading their make-believe gender-change on the web for all to see and join in. Or as I was chastised by one of them to my mirth, “Armsley” ---whose avatar photo, please note, made him uncannily resemble a 60 year-old Gabby Hayes of Roy Rogers western-movie fame, stubbly beard and all and tobacco stains on its hairy edges near his toothless mouth --- “is a female, a lady, a dame; got it gordon?” Similarly , like anyone else, they have a right to lead a life of their choosing and not suffer discrimination.
Beyond that, though --- what?
Well, they got no free pass from me for their silly priggery and fussy passive-aggressivity that led, for a few days anyway, to my mirthful toying with their grumpy old-maid peevishness.
Apparently, I was seen as their worst nightmare. Just imagine! . . . a manically fantasized he-man hetero-dumbo had the nerve to bust in on their exclusive girls-night-out yak-yak with one another and their tiny clutch of female groupies: with, to boot, their yacketing stuff full of gossipy tidbits about their personal lives and mutual condolences or congratulations, all depending on what spectacular quotidian trivialities struck them as worth narrating. Small wonder they all began braying for the buggy prof’s instant cyberspace execution . . . followed, I imagine, by his hoped for real execution if they could only get the hetero's dumb-ox woman-slurping head under a three-foot long guillotine blade.
Or as 4 Bee, something apparently of a self-anointed spokesman, put it so effectively in his first post about bad bad buggy boy:
Solong, darling, what's going on in this thread?
I was away for couple of days, and by coming back I found
this freak gordongordo troll here jamming all the good posts.
Is there a way we can get rid of this nightmare?
Solong, I trust you will find a way! One disturbed gordon troll sinking
such a good thread.
Love 4bee”
And again a few hours later, while I laughed in delight at his persnickety sarcasm, 4Bee followed up with this gem:
Gordon:
By reading your very first post, with the above quoted text, it became quite clear - you've been trolling here--- countless words and little substance.
That's the very nature of a troll. There was no need to bother reading the rest of them. Perhaps you are in a clinic as a recovering drug/alcohol/ sex or a mental breakdown or a psychopath with the access to computer, who knows or who cares. [Buggy Addendum March 28th, 2008: Hilarious as this all seems, several of these guy-girls soon got rushes of the heebie-jeebies, started looking into my background, and began posting frantic worries that I was indeed confined to a mental ward for the criminally insane and would presently break out and take horrible vengeance on each and every one . . . presumably in the company of Dr. Hannibal Lecter, who (I wickedly hinted at in one of my joshing posts), was my chief attending psychiatrist and gourmet-instructor who explained to me the niceties of eating roasted gay-guy flesh.]
Perhaps it has been therapeutic for you to write the ??professor stuff?? and clever for your doctor to recommend creativity, employ your fantasy etc.; same as for some people it works well while playing with crayons.
That's good. Perhaps it's quite healthy for you as well to squeeze out every bit of stored memories somewhere in your brain and exercise- exercise it, such as remembering Woody Allen films etc. Please, just try to keep it shorter and perhaps we will be entertained. Your doctor must see how hard you have tried, but then again this is what he has been paid for. On the other hand, why should your doctor be punishing us --- this lovely HBO forum crowd, being here for a long time, having had many wars and battles with troll invasions and other crazies. Please, you tell him/her that you need to keep it short, write haiku.
Get well, and remember, it's not good to dress up in your doctors white coat pretending to be one, while in treatment. You can get caught and as a consequence spend even more time behind the doors without a knob.
Back to KD's Claim
Leave aside Armsley's and n1984’s and 4Bee’s silly shallow fluff. On that score, you’re right. Concentrate instead on what you said in reply to Lucas, and especially on your key point --- all that stuff about not taking fictional characters seriously ---
Nothing, when you get down to it, I regret to say, could be more wrongheaded . . . and for a couple of solid reasons.