"Actually I think I'm pretty damn "tolerant" around here, I rarely delete posts or censure posters, only in the most extreme cases."
This is true.
But, when you do, and you inadvertently hurt a substantial portion of the community that has been directed by their teachings to suffer in silence, with your words, they carry more weight, and more responsibility.
"I've also taken some heat from other members for being overly tolerant of people who only post in confrontational super forum threads and rarely if ever have anything to add within the washer, dryer or dishwasher community."
Well, I rarely post in the other two forums, because I do not "collect", per se, and I've decided to keep my Whirlpool DD for eternity, because I do not care for what is out there now, so my primary focus is on laundry products and the like, for now.
If posting in "Super" or "Deluxe" is a litmus test for membership in this community, please let me know, and I'll make myself scarce, but I don't know why this would be any other poster's concern.
"But I'll still be tolerant of them no mater how much "heat" and complaints I get about them."
Well, that's silly. I mean, if you CHOOSE to put up with such complaints, then that's your CHOICE.
My email address is featured on my profile. I'm very open to discussing anything I've written; in fact, I'd be willing to rephrase anything I've written that I worded foolishly.
I don't understand why anyone would "turn in" anyone else, on the basis of what anyone wrote here (unless, of course, someone was threatening or shady, in terms of business).
Some people, IMHO, need to get real with one another, stop running to surrogate daddies to solve their problems for them, and learn to coexist with those they disagree with, rather than call for their "enemy's" bannination.
I've NEVER complained to you about any issues regarding a poster. You don't have time, and nothing gets solved anyway.
"Again I need some education, how exactly did I do that? Are you referring to what I said, or maybe what I didn't say, I have no idea what you mean. Examples please and less double talk."
"I'm sorry to say, but a witch like me who could zap myself to Paris for lunch if I wanted... would never believe that religious nonsense..."
Double talk? First, someone goes out on the limb to admit that they've been hurt by something you've said, and you make a joke out of it.....then, you turn around and, after they've clearly stated that they hold something you can't comprehend dear to their heart, you compound your insensitivity by belitting that thing, that, frankly, no one should have been running their mouth disrespecting in the first place?
Robert, this is Manners 101, and I was shocked that you would come out with that. There was nothing in what Mark was saying that was prosyletizing or trying to win over converts. He was simply protesting what he saw as insensitivity toward ALL the person he was, not just the part you find compatible with your "world".
It's not about the marriage equality issue, or even living as a gay man in the 21st century, and acknowledging the challenges organized religions have presented to the so-called "gay agenda".
Substantial numbers of those gay men, worldwide, have spiritual lives and private beliefs that are either based on, draw heavily upon, or are carried entirely upon the organizational framework of these organized religions. What is in their hearts is as essential to their existence as what is in their head or between their legs.
Is it necessary to devalue them...us...because you choose to blame every conceivable setback the gay community suffers on their beliefs, without ever taking into account that "boy posters" and over-the-top parade floats might just play as big as a role in our struggles?
For all of this "confrontational attitude" I'm so guilty of, at least I'm direct. I don't gossip behind other peoples backs.
