My misanthropic mood, I find to be perfectly self-serving for this sermon - a bloggers praxis - a rant.
I just poked fun at Rayne by saying that some of her more monumental efforts immediately follow her personal and very ubiquitous "Slow Blogging Today" flag. I consider my observation of her quaint and quite comical foibles to be fair comment - socially acceptable game as it were. My intercourse is not meant maliciously - more, something effacingly in common to giggle about. I don't consciously further the establishment to cliques because I know what it feels like to be ostracized and that's not something I want to see in Salon. Everyone's personality and points of view are welcome as far as I'm concerned.
I can only speak for myself. I'd be chancing the wrath of Raven's ghost if I attempted to speak for those in the hereabouts, but I feel that the nature of the Salon atmosphere and it's pundit inhabitants not only accept criticism but readily encourage it. I know I do. But in the short time I've been here, everyone to a fault has been polite regarding criticism.
Yeah, I've stepped on some toes to be sure. But as stupid and naive as some(most) of my writings and comments have been, I've historically received mostly encouragement for, at least my aspiration at continual efforts of my improvement of "quality" in writing. I generally know when I've overstepped my bounds when I get comments, from some of the local femes, comments that begin with, "Oh Rich, you poor [pathetic, naive] thing....". Maybe I deserved it (probably) maybe I didn't. But the woman (and men) were always polite.
I've been appalled at some of the comments I've been reading here of late. Occasionally at work I lurk about during my lunch hour, you know lunch hour: 10:00 'till 1300. (Just kidding boss)
A new one -"Life in L.A.'s" Claire Smith was accosted this week with "jeeze quit your f-ing whining. Do you read this stuff? ". I don't know if you've visited Claire yet, but I find her writing to be a degage of perspicuous and unexpurgated rant of a "life's not fair" actualization on a theme of "this can happen to any of us" - at least those of us who care about our parents. Another "Archy" with a foul mouth cared to "comment" on this young woman who is apparently caring for her bedridden father who has a nasty cancer. Nuf said.
Julia Grey also was flamed today (or lately) being called a "Dumb cunt". I've only "known" Julia a little while. I don't know what y'all think, but I'm definitely of the opinion that the title doesn't fit. Not by a long shot.
We have a saying here in Hawaii - it's "Tanta-a-rah" - an onomatopoeia of that when the "hero" jumps out "to save the day". I'm not into that. Call my wife a "dumb slut" at a bar and I'm not likely to blink - yes, really. I know that she is more than capable of a sesquipedalian retort to follow starting with, "SO I'm dumb am I?!" (Lay hands on my tiny wife - it'll all be a different outcome to be sure!). So, the sex of the recipient is not at issue here. I particularly thought "Thumbs in my ears, fingers waving - Nah Nah Na Nah Nah" was a spot-on response".
My mother once counseled me, "The opposite of love is not hate. It is instead indifference." So help me out here folks. I don't have children, so how to handle the juvenile sand fleas making their rounds in the hereabouts lately are a bit of a mystery to me. I don't want to encourage this behavior. Don't know if going after it actively is the appropriate response either.
I do think that vitriol of this nature has no part in Salonville.
What do you think/suggest?
6:15:14 PM 
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