Posted by Larry Hoover on March 8, 2006, at 14:45:25
In reply to Re: Am I the only one? » JenStar, posted by Gabbix2 on March 8, 2006, at 14:04:19
> I felt it was like marketing hyperbole as well, and that the statement about leaving babble may read more as a threat than a need, perhaps because it's been used several times, over different issues.
I can't help but feel you're no longer talking to Jen.
My path has previously forked off from Babble, but it has also brought me back. Threat? The only threat I make is to me. I'm trying to make sense of something, right before your eyes. Strange as it may seem, right before my own, too.
In coming to terms with stressors on my life, with the pain I have, and now nine meds for that pain, without due relief, a re-evaluation was necessary. The only significant source of triggers in my life is Babble. It's change Babble or just leave. But you know me well enough to know that I give my best before I make my own decisions to change such an important aspect of my life. I don't want to go. I don't want to be another Silenced Sensitive. Shall I collect a list of them? Those that simply left? There are some stand-out names on that list.
Just in case you were wondering how I saw my path.
> And after I wrote about the trigger warnings not hurting anyone, I re-thought it, and too felt that it would become unweildy, and yet not make it really any safer for more people.
No different than assessing your posts for other civility issues. Why is this different from sh*t and f*ck and c*cks*cker (whoa, bob, that one's not on the automatic asterisk list)? Why is this lesser than that?
> And Larry, yes I *do* know, I know very well what it's like to be devasted emotionally, and so do I daresay, most of us here.I know. Yes, it is commonplace here. So, why isn't there any sanctuary here?
> I resent the implication that if I don't agree with you fully, somehow I'm being insensitive.
I expected different arguments to touch different people. The concept I am trying to present, I am trying to present as an all or nothing concept. A binary choice. I'm aghast that I have to argue it at all.
> This cannot be reduced to this one facet, there are many issues here that require sensitivity, and thought.
And discussion. And feelings. And more discussion. I'm trying to rouse some thinking here. I want this subject to obtain some attention. I'm rising from silence, after all.
> Right now I'm too angry to respond to any more of this, you might even say triggered.I'm sorry that I have inspired anger. I'm not sorry that I have inspired.
> I'm not saying that to be petty, it's true.
> And it's another reminder to me, that you can't protect everyone from everything that may disturb them.I don't seek protection from everything. I seek protection from a very special few things. I don't know how the one has become confused for the other.
Lar
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