maypirate

So this wouldn't bother me (and strangely entertain me) if it wasn't FUCKING RIDICULOUS.

Let me rant about it, please, just a little.

I have, on my DA journal, a little thing that says I am currently reading "The Amber Spyglass." That's it. That's all I've said about it in any DA journal ever. In fact the entire entry below it is "The rest is silence." Okay.

Now I get this comment, from this chick "Zarsthor," who is apparently a "writer," though her use of ellipses speaks otherwise to me.

"Oh no not Phillip Pullman ... at leats your on the last book though. It took me so long to crawl through those books ... the first one was ok but god did i want to give up after the first 50 pages ... the polar bear was the only thing that kept me going ... personally cant stand that trillogy ... i only read it all becuase I'm incredibly stubborn about not reading books ... i will read it even if i fall asleep at every lien and it takes me a year ... there is only one book i have ever actually given up on ... Alan Garner - "Owl Service" but i vowed to return to it ... and i will some day ... i think i was to young to be read that book anyway ... and i still dread at it ... i only managed to page 23 before i wanted to shot myself ... But it was becuase i did not understand it ... but i will after i try out David Gemell ..."

..well thanks, I'm glad to know. That's just fabulous for you.

WHAT?! What is the point of that? Okay...whatever...So I respond...

I felt like this was reasonable, at least not full of vicious attack dingoes:

"Um, while I respect that your opinion is your opinion, is it really necessary to tell me how much you hated a series of books that I really like? Because I do really like them, and if I ever feel inspired, I'll probably draw from them too.

"I'm not trying to be impolite, but I'm not entirely sure why you'd go out of your way to suggest they're so awful. I don't like Harry Potter, but I don't go around leaving comments about what a pain I think it is."

Please, someone, tell me if that was rude, unfair, or just abusive. Or explain to me the logic behind, I dunno, just going over to someone and saying "I know this doesn't have anything to do with anything, but boy do I hate what you're reading!" I mean, if someone will enlighten me, I'll gladly recant.

But she responded again, and this really takes the cake.

I cannot believe this:

"I don't know what to say to you about that. I wasn't trying to upset you as I clearly have. I was merely being friendly. If you don't like people with opinons which differ to you, perhaps you shouldn't listen to anybody. And you didn't have to listen to me. People feel differently about different things. And if we were all alike we wouldn't be individuals with free thinking, but senseless drones.
I only wish one day people would stop hating, fearing and commending people becuase they are different. Its a form of prejudice that I find frequently growing in todays society, and though you may not agree with what I am saying, which is in your right, I believe the failure to communicate is whats driving people insane. Why we are getting "Happy slappers" and young boys taking axes to there peers heads. Its somehting that has been going on for a long while in society though I didn't infact find out about it till I was 7 and moved to London. I do find it annoying and wish people would stop taking offence to others differences.
I honestly don't feel threatened by your liking of a book I do not, but I do not understand why you do not like me having a different opinon.
And there I think this is best left to the saying "I agree to diagree."
I honestly didn't wish to offend you and will keep clear from your journals in future unless you would prefer me to remove you from my watch list enitrely."

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......WHAT?!

She was trying to be friendly? I always make friends by going up to people I've never spoken to and being "Oh no, I couldn't stand that." I sometimes start mini transaction conversations at the video store with people about why they liked a movie or didn't and what I thought about it, but it's during the space of time when I'm tallying up how much money they owe. The bonds of true friendship are not created during these moments.

What really gets me is the fact that apparently I'm oppressing the voice of dissent and can't stand anyone to have a different opinion from me. It offends me. Apparently I want everyone to be thoughtless drones and all be the same. Because that's what I said. It has nothing to do with me feeling like "hey, you mind not dissing the book I'm reading?" I am, in fact, a thought-tyrant.

I don't fucking care that you have a different opinion, but I don't want to hear about it on my journal, without provocation, when if you read the entry at all you would clearly see I was having a shitty day!

But maybe I'm just being the bitch I so often am.

I'm thinking of asking her to take me off her watch list. Not sure yet. Any thoughts?

Edit: Wow. I just read uh..a post on one of my many fancy online places. I want to roll on the floor laughing and screaming. What a day!