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So, here's something funny that I forgot to write about when it happened. You know how I still have some personals ads up in a few places? Well, in one of them, I was pretty specific about who I didn't want to date. And after the fiasco with Mr. Let's-Steamroll-Other-Countries-For-Bush last year, I said something like, "if you are a bigot, racist, homophobe, sexist, war mongerer, or you support Bush and his ways, please look for someone else." Which, I think, is fairly reasonable.
So last week I get this email from some guy calling himself "WinterForge":
Odd that I never see a conservative...
...whose profile says they can't deal with a Kerry voter. But there's no shortage of fragile liberals in danger of a nervous breakdown should they meet a Bush voter.
Funny...liberals are always claiming to be more accepting of other viewpoints. I guess that's true unless one has the gall to disagree with you, eh?
Question: Who's more mature, the person who can deal with opposing viewpoints or the one who can't?
If I were you I'd get used to meeting Bush voters. There's more of us than you.
That's how he won.
So, just so you get an idea of how this stuff works: you have to have a paid account in order to write to someone, which I don't have. Basically this guy paid 20-something dollars so that, what? He could be a petty bitch to people?
What I could have said--and might have, if I also wanted to pay money to be a bitch to people--is that everyone has their limits about what they will deal with. As a liberal, I've never said "I'm open to all viewpoints," and I don't think that most liberals do try to convince anyone of that, or at least the liberals that I know don't. Everyone has a line that they can't cross, you know? My lines are sexism, homophobia, bigotry and invading another country just because. I don't have to be accepting of these hateful viewpoints and I never claimed to be. So I'm not sure where some of these conservatives came up with this idea that Liberals claim to LOVE EVERY VIEWPOINT even if it sucks the biggest, hairiest one. But they certainly love to wave it around like dirty underwear, though. I don't try to stop conservatives from being who and what they are, but that doesn't mean I have to date one.
And part of me wanted to ask how mature he thought he was for writing to someone on an internet dating service just to be a petty bitch.
But alas, I did not want to spend money to be a bitch to someone, when I can easily do that for free in places like GAFF and such. So I did something that I thought would burn him much more, anyway. I sent him a (free) rejection form letter that said, "No thanks, I'm not interested in you." You have the option of chosing a reason, and I chose that I didn't like his personality. And I have to admit, I giggled when I pictured the look on his mug when he got that.
^_^
Oddly enough, on his profile, where he could have chosen a political standpoint, he chose "no answer." I mean, jesus, if you're going to get so riled up, at least have the balls to say where you stand.
So last week I get this email from some guy calling himself "WinterForge":
Odd that I never see a conservative...
...whose profile says they can't deal with a Kerry voter. But there's no shortage of fragile liberals in danger of a nervous breakdown should they meet a Bush voter.
Funny...liberals are always claiming to be more accepting of other viewpoints. I guess that's true unless one has the gall to disagree with you, eh?
Question: Who's more mature, the person who can deal with opposing viewpoints or the one who can't?
If I were you I'd get used to meeting Bush voters. There's more of us than you.
That's how he won.
So, just so you get an idea of how this stuff works: you have to have a paid account in order to write to someone, which I don't have. Basically this guy paid 20-something dollars so that, what? He could be a petty bitch to people?
What I could have said--and might have, if I also wanted to pay money to be a bitch to people--is that everyone has their limits about what they will deal with. As a liberal, I've never said "I'm open to all viewpoints," and I don't think that most liberals do try to convince anyone of that, or at least the liberals that I know don't. Everyone has a line that they can't cross, you know? My lines are sexism, homophobia, bigotry and invading another country just because. I don't have to be accepting of these hateful viewpoints and I never claimed to be. So I'm not sure where some of these conservatives came up with this idea that Liberals claim to LOVE EVERY VIEWPOINT even if it sucks the biggest, hairiest one. But they certainly love to wave it around like dirty underwear, though. I don't try to stop conservatives from being who and what they are, but that doesn't mean I have to date one.
And part of me wanted to ask how mature he thought he was for writing to someone on an internet dating service just to be a petty bitch.
But alas, I did not want to spend money to be a bitch to someone, when I can easily do that for free in places like GAFF and such. So I did something that I thought would burn him much more, anyway. I sent him a (free) rejection form letter that said, "No thanks, I'm not interested in you." You have the option of chosing a reason, and I chose that I didn't like his personality. And I have to admit, I giggled when I pictured the look on his mug when he got that.
^_^
Oddly enough, on his profile, where he could have chosen a political standpoint, he chose "no answer." I mean, jesus, if you're going to get so riled up, at least have the balls to say where you stand.
So, here's something funny that I forgot to write about when it happened. You know how I still have some personals ads up in a few places? Well, in one of them, I was pretty specific about who I didn't want to date. And after the fiasco with Mr. Let's-Steamroll-Other-Countries-For-Bush last year, I said something like, "if you are a bigot, racist, homophobe, sexist, war mongerer, or you support Bush and his ways, please look for someone else." Which, I think, is fairly reasonable.
So last week I get this email from some guy calling himself "WinterForge":
Odd that I never see a conservative...
...whose profile says they can't deal with a Kerry voter. But there's no shortage of fragile liberals in danger of a nervous breakdown should they meet a Bush voter.
Funny...liberals are always claiming to be more accepting of other viewpoints. I guess that's true unless one has the gall to disagree with you, eh?
Question: Who's more mature, the person who can deal with opposing viewpoints or the one who can't?
If I were you I'd get used to meeting Bush voters. There's more of us than you.
That's how he won.
So, just so you get an idea of how this stuff works: you have to have a paid account in order to write to someone, which I don't have. Basically this guy paid 20-something dollars so that, what? He could be a petty bitch to people?
What I could have said--and might have, if I also wanted to pay money to be a bitch to people--is that everyone has their limits about what they will deal with. As a liberal, I've never said "I'm open to all viewpoints," and I don't think that most liberals do try to convince anyone of that, or at least the liberals that I know don't. Everyone has a line that they can't cross, you know? My lines are sexism, homophobia, bigotry and invading another country just because. I don't have to be accepting of these hateful viewpoints and I never claimed to be. So I'm not sure where some of these conservatives came up with this idea that Liberals claim to LOVE EVERY VIEWPOINT even if it sucks the biggest, hairiest one. But they certainly love to wave it around like dirty underwear, though. I don't try to stop conservatives from being who and what they are, but that doesn't mean I have to date one.
And part of me wanted to ask how mature he thought he was for writing to someone on an internet dating service just to be a petty bitch.
But alas, I did not want to spend money to be a bitch to someone, when I can easily do that for free in places like GAFF and such. So I did something that I thought would burn him much more, anyway. I sent him a (free) rejection form letter that said, "No thanks, I'm not interested in you." You have the option of chosing a reason, and I chose that I didn't like his personality. And I have to admit, I giggled when I pictured the look on his mug when he got that.
^_^
Oddly enough, on his profile, where he could have chosen a political standpoint, he chose "no answer." I mean, jesus, if you're going to get so riled up, at least have the balls to say where you stand.
So last week I get this email from some guy calling himself "WinterForge":
Odd that I never see a conservative...
...whose profile says they can't deal with a Kerry voter. But there's no shortage of fragile liberals in danger of a nervous breakdown should they meet a Bush voter.
Funny...liberals are always claiming to be more accepting of other viewpoints. I guess that's true unless one has the gall to disagree with you, eh?
Question: Who's more mature, the person who can deal with opposing viewpoints or the one who can't?
If I were you I'd get used to meeting Bush voters. There's more of us than you.
That's how he won.
So, just so you get an idea of how this stuff works: you have to have a paid account in order to write to someone, which I don't have. Basically this guy paid 20-something dollars so that, what? He could be a petty bitch to people?
What I could have said--and might have, if I also wanted to pay money to be a bitch to people--is that everyone has their limits about what they will deal with. As a liberal, I've never said "I'm open to all viewpoints," and I don't think that most liberals do try to convince anyone of that, or at least the liberals that I know don't. Everyone has a line that they can't cross, you know? My lines are sexism, homophobia, bigotry and invading another country just because. I don't have to be accepting of these hateful viewpoints and I never claimed to be. So I'm not sure where some of these conservatives came up with this idea that Liberals claim to LOVE EVERY VIEWPOINT even if it sucks the biggest, hairiest one. But they certainly love to wave it around like dirty underwear, though. I don't try to stop conservatives from being who and what they are, but that doesn't mean I have to date one.
And part of me wanted to ask how mature he thought he was for writing to someone on an internet dating service just to be a petty bitch.
But alas, I did not want to spend money to be a bitch to someone, when I can easily do that for free in places like GAFF and such. So I did something that I thought would burn him much more, anyway. I sent him a (free) rejection form letter that said, "No thanks, I'm not interested in you." You have the option of chosing a reason, and I chose that I didn't like his personality. And I have to admit, I giggled when I pictured the look on his mug when he got that.
^_^
Oddly enough, on his profile, where he could have chosen a political standpoint, he chose "no answer." I mean, jesus, if you're going to get so riled up, at least have the balls to say where you stand.
