My newest addition to the forum... I don't mean to speak for anyone here, or anyone other than myself really... but... correct me if I'm wrong... is this the message you are getting?
Treenbeen: I know you and I are discussing this privately, and this isn't directed at you specifically... but can you see how it doesn't feel like a "true loving, respectful, extended family of a community" to some of us?
These last several months have been a mess, I'll be the first person to admit that, but do you really think it creates a "welcome loving family atmosphere" when people can see the response to Trollis and I having a different opinion?
I mean... I can't blame AJMLurker for not wanting you guys to know who they are (yes, I know. No I won't say), because look how I've been treated these last few months. A constant of:
"Never should have made bridges with them Treenbeen.
Destroyed ten years worth of a community very quickly."
"This is your fault..." and "You never should have" and "You destroyed everything" and "Think long and hard about that decision", and now penalizing me for being negative.
Dr. Belch has only been on this website 6 months longer than I have.
6 months. He's been a more active member than I have, sure, but still...
Look, I know what everyone on this website thinks of me. I always have. And I know that overall, it's not good. I'm the drama queen, the "always has a problem", the absentee, the "oh my god will this girl never shut up?" But, for the most part, everyone has always been very kind and welcoming, until I dared to show a different opinion.
These last few months, I have felt far more validated, supported and appreciated by the Kiwi Farms than by anyone here.
Especially knowing that people are reading this, I think ya'll need to really watch what you say. Because they see how the people of this site have been treating me, responding to me, and to people outside the site... and they are reading it as "those freakin' Christian conservatives. This is the crap they pull."
And to come here, and see blatant racism, sexism, misogyny, threats, and absolutely reprehensible treatment of those with mental illness or sexual assault victims from Dr. Belch be supported without a second thought, but to be slammed down for questioning it, over and over and over again, and then be told "we're his family"... you know what gets filled in the blank in my mind:
"We're
his family... but not
yours."
So can you blame me for being a bit negative?
Can you blame AJMLurker for not wanting to reveal themself?
Because I can't"