Would you just quit it? If I do something wrong, it's not because all men bad all women good or something like that. It's because I am doing the very best I can to make things right, and when I know people do have PTSD triggered from stuff like that, I do what I can. I'm not some sort of ultimate moralizing force. I'm a human, who is often wrong, and really just trying to find the right thing and do that.
Is it kosher to bring up a quote from so long ago? I'd rather I was here back when it was current, but I feel like bringing this up again bears repeating. And maybe I'm putting it to a use you didn't intend Vector, and I apologize if I'm hijacking your words. And it's possible I'm misinterpreting some other posters as well, and I apologize to anyone who feels as if I'm putting words in your mouth*.
But I feel like there seems to be a rash lately of jokes about how you have to watch what you say around Vector and how she's such an enforcer of progressiveness and stuff. And it just seems like that misses the point. Which doesn't seem to really be
anything about Vector, particularly. It's not that she's touchy and you should be nice to her, and it's not that she's here to make the boards a better place. She's just here,
and she wants to make the boards a better place. And she doesn't even seem to be arguing to defend what's right, or to fight off people she thinks are wrong. Getting rid of people isn't the point, so much as convincing them, showing them what the problem is. Getting them to internalize something and apply it beyond the current argument.
Maybe I'm blowing this out of proportion, and maybe I'm being overly defensive on somebody else's behalf. I feel kind of bad about bringing up an issue that isn't about me, and that nobody's talking about right now. It's just, I don't like seeing someone put on a pedestal, and that paragraph I quoted gave me a sense that she probably doesn't either. So, I just wanted to make clear what I thought, and hope that I'm not just failing Sense Motive, and that I'm not inadvertently doing that thing where complaining about a problem makes me a part of it. Cause goddamn is that ever a problem here, I think, not to mention the constant worry that what I'm really doing is white knighting.
Anyway, hitting "post" before self-doubt makes me think better of it, I apologize if this post turns out to be a waste of bits.
*Was that last clause grammatically correct? I couldn't figure out what pronoun to use, for some reason.