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I am not a coward
Sunday, 9 March 2008 01:15I. Am. Not. A. Coward.
There is nothing cowardly about being done with a situation and doing the necessary steps to avoid furthering it. In real life, whilst I would not go out of my way to avoid someone I am having a serious conflict with, I would most certainly still avoid them. Likewise, on LiveJournal, it is so easy to just avoid someone. Defriend. Ban from commenting.
Yet, apparently it is COWARDLY to avoid someone online. Wow. Cowardly and immature, no less. Golly gee, and here I was thinking I was being all mature for just saying to Hell with it and deciding that I really didn't want to put up with childish rants that barely make any coherent sense from someone who, for all her claims about having been my friend, knew less about me than complete strangers. I mean, I figured that since I would not invite someone into my home who showed demonstrated hatred of me, why would I allow someone to comment on my entries who has showed the same hatred?
Sorry, but this journal exists for the sole purpose of me. Me. Myself. I. You can disagree with me on whatever you want. Call me out on stupidity. I don't mind. That's what friends are for. However, at the end of the day, the internet is a place for me to relax and have fun, and it's pretty hard to do that when I've got people wangsting all over my journal. It takes a lot for me to decide to avoid someone in real life. I mean it. There are plenty of people in real life who I can't stand that, when I see them, I will plaster a smile on my face and ask how they're doing and just be genuinely friendly. The few people I avoid and have as little interaction with as humanly possible? Well, those are the same people who see fit to lambast me for every little thing, even if it's something they themselves have done. Those are the people who make it their life's mission to prove that they are superior and I am a whiny little insect who doesn't deserve to breathe the same air they do. Those are the people where I cannot genuinely give a damn whether they live or die, the people who have never really treated me as anything more than something convenient for them. These are the people that, at this point in my life, I simply ignore, because it's not worth the frustration of trying to get them to act like decent human beings.
So, online? That holds true. I will not tolerate blatant, intentional hypocrisy. I will not tolerate attacks on my character. I will not tolerate attempts to make me feel like a piece of shit for any reason. I do not invite such people to conversation in real life, do not invite them anywhere near me unless absolutely necessary. I will not put up with the same chickenshit online just because it's supposedly immature and cowardly to ban someone from commenting. I wouldn't talk to you in real life unless I had to, and LiveJournal hardly mimics the sort of situation where I would be unable to either avoid a person or bow out of conversation gracefully.
There is nothing cowardly about being done with a situation and doing the necessary steps to avoid furthering it. In real life, whilst I would not go out of my way to avoid someone I am having a serious conflict with, I would most certainly still avoid them. Likewise, on LiveJournal, it is so easy to just avoid someone. Defriend. Ban from commenting.
Yet, apparently it is COWARDLY to avoid someone online. Wow. Cowardly and immature, no less. Golly gee, and here I was thinking I was being all mature for just saying to Hell with it and deciding that I really didn't want to put up with childish rants that barely make any coherent sense from someone who, for all her claims about having been my friend, knew less about me than complete strangers. I mean, I figured that since I would not invite someone into my home who showed demonstrated hatred of me, why would I allow someone to comment on my entries who has showed the same hatred?
Sorry, but this journal exists for the sole purpose of me. Me. Myself. I. You can disagree with me on whatever you want. Call me out on stupidity. I don't mind. That's what friends are for. However, at the end of the day, the internet is a place for me to relax and have fun, and it's pretty hard to do that when I've got people wangsting all over my journal. It takes a lot for me to decide to avoid someone in real life. I mean it. There are plenty of people in real life who I can't stand that, when I see them, I will plaster a smile on my face and ask how they're doing and just be genuinely friendly. The few people I avoid and have as little interaction with as humanly possible? Well, those are the same people who see fit to lambast me for every little thing, even if it's something they themselves have done. Those are the people who make it their life's mission to prove that they are superior and I am a whiny little insect who doesn't deserve to breathe the same air they do. Those are the people where I cannot genuinely give a damn whether they live or die, the people who have never really treated me as anything more than something convenient for them. These are the people that, at this point in my life, I simply ignore, because it's not worth the frustration of trying to get them to act like decent human beings.
So, online? That holds true. I will not tolerate blatant, intentional hypocrisy. I will not tolerate attacks on my character. I will not tolerate attempts to make me feel like a piece of shit for any reason. I do not invite such people to conversation in real life, do not invite them anywhere near me unless absolutely necessary. I will not put up with the same chickenshit online just because it's supposedly immature and cowardly to ban someone from commenting. I wouldn't talk to you in real life unless I had to, and LiveJournal hardly mimics the sort of situation where I would be unable to either avoid a person or bow out of conversation gracefully.
