ET can be as bigoted as anywhere
You have this habit of writing out exaggerations that somehow seem plausible. I haven't seen anyone question Helen's trans status here - I think there is a near universal off-limits / respect for what people do with their life and their person on this site. Beliefs and views, though, are completely open to attack and debate. That's not bigotry - at worst it's a lack of emotional intelligence, and even then, there are no rules on discourse on this site.
you are the media you consume.
It's not a detail. It seems to me (Helen is free to see things otherwise, of course), that it's the biggest part of the picture.
My complaint was; the first discussion I entered into on this thread was with Sven. It began to move into areas where, on a previous diary, I had felt exposed and vulnerable and felt bullied and harrassed. That may have been an unfair reading of events but I was reacting emotionally due to exposure etc and so I brought the discussion with Sven to a close with a not so oblique explanation which was accepted by those participating.
Then all hell broke loose and I withdrew from the conversation as I still feel quite raw about what had happened and did not want to go through it all again for other's purposes. That conversation has continued without me and I was happy as it didn't distract from the very much more germane discussion I was having at the back of the thread.
I am enjoying the conversations I am having, I hope you are enjoyiing yours too, but I haven't really followed yours at all (sorry, I really don't want to know what some people think about me). However, I noticed your comment as I was paging by and thought I should clarify a couple of points as I feel you've sufferend a minor misapprehension of how it all started. keep to the Fen Causeway
I have barely put in two brief comments here, precisely to correct misapprehensions.
