Originally Posted by
redietz
If gordo nuked me or whatever, I have no issue with that. Good for him. It was a pain for me to post at WoV when I had to restrain my disdain for the place in just about everything I wrote. Restrain my disdain -- that should be a rap lyric. I mean, really, Shackleford and I are sort of natural enemies after this MDawg fiasco.
But I do have one personal issue with gordo. That post of his where he says if he won a big chunk of money, he wanted to have sex with double amputees. I have an issue with that. That is creepy. I read that thing over and over, and I really got no vibe from it that he was being humorous. Yet he and other mods were making judgements about people posting mild jokes about folks, and the mods treated them as huge insults.
Saying you want to pay big money so you can have sex with double amputees goes right through me. It makes me cringe. It's some sick power angle to have sex with particular kind of perceived helpless.
One side of my family was wiped out by MS, and they each spent their final 10-12 years as quadriplegics. But they were at home as fully functioning household members, helping to run the households and making decisions. So when somebody does that creepy power trip sex-with-the-helpless comment, it really, really bothers me. Makes me want to take a hacksaw to their legs until they're double amputees themselves.
And mickey, thanks for the original post. Very much.
Hopefully, a difference of opinion won't change our otherwise favorable outlooks, but I disagree with your second-to-last paragraph. Quite frankly, it sounds like the sort of Liberal, "Woe is me," "Take everything personally," bullshit that I would expect to be posted by a twenty-year old white, affluent, suburban female, 'Majoring,' in Art History rather than a successful lifetime sports bettor a few years beyond middle aged.
Was Gordon's objectionable post related, in any way, to the people that you mentioned? Was Gordon's objectionable post directed at you in response to something that you said? Do you think that someone should use spoilers and include a, "Trigger Warning," before posting any sort of objectionable content whatsoever on a Forum dedicated to gambling that is only meant for adults anyway?
For example, my sister's homosexual. There are homosexual slurs (often directed at KewlJ) getting thrown around on here, but you don't see me taking it personally on my sister's behalf...because she's not the target of the slurs and, as far as I know, does not even read any of the postings here. That said, if a guy called my sister any one of those things to her face, I'd probably have to whip his ass.
But, to tell me that Gordon's general (though objectionable) comment had a direct impact on your feelings...dude, come the fuck on. I don't believe that for a second. This post would probably not be quite as neutrally toned if I
did believe such a thing seriously impacts your emotions, because that would be much worse.