[xsiborg]

Originally Posted by deirdre_dub

I call you out on being hurt by something, and then you start calling me a smart ass, and then talk about how supportive AH can be.

deirdre not to my knowledge did i post anything in this thread that you could have construed as hurtful, and not once did i ever suggest that being transgendered was a lifestyle choice.

your first post in this thread contained an unnecessarily aggressive and dismissive tone that was bound to get people's backs up. you may be transgendered, but in my mind at least that is not all that you are as a whole person. your personality is also part of who you are, and that to my knowledge has nothing to do with your gender.

i said you were being a smart ass because your passive aggressive posts were only serving to derail the thread and focus all the attention on you, which i would be glad to move away from and take this to a discussion via PM so that we would not derail the thread any further.

AH CAN be supportive, you only have to look at the "lets all laugh at depression" thread to see that. and it can be a great resource for information and support, even the fact that one of the AH mods has links to suicide rescources in their signature should be enough to show you that.

now i would respectfully suggest that we move past this nit-picking and get this thread back on track so that it is not closed due to going off topic. it's far enough off topic as it is and the mods have been gracious enough to leave it open for discussion.

[The King of Moo]

Originally Posted by xsiborg

deirdre not to my knowledge did i post anything in this thread that you could have construed as hurtful, and not once did i ever suggest that being transgendered was a lifestyle choice.

your first post in this thread contained an unnecessarily aggressive and dismissive tone that was bound to get people's backs up. you may be transgendered, but in my mind at least that is not all that you are as a whole person. your personality is also part of who you are, and that to my knowledge has nothing to do with your gender.

i said you were being a smart ass because your passive aggressive posts were only serving to derail the thread and focus all the attention on you, which i would be glad to move away from and take this to a discussion via PM so that we would not derail the thread any further.

AH CAN be supportive, you only have to look at the "lets all laugh at depression" thread to see that. and it can be a great resource for information and support, even the fact that one of the AH mods has links to suicide rescources in their signature should be enough to show you that.

now i would respectfully suggest that we move past this nit-picking and get this thread back on track so that it is not closed due to going off topic. it's far enough off topic as it is and the mods have been gracious enough to leave it open for discussion.

The fact that you've posted a lot in this thread, generally disagreeing to some extent with the transgender posters, could be seen as passive-aggressive, especially considering that you stated in the previous thread on transgender issues (in which you posted quite a bit) that transgender issues weren't high on your list of priorities.

I'm not saying you are being passive-aggressive, just that I can see how your posts would come across that way, and I do find it strange that you post so often in threads on transgender issues when you claim to have little interest in the subject.

[xsiborg]

Originally Posted by The King of Moo

The fact that you've posted a lot in this thread, generally disagreeing to some extent with the transgender posters, could be seen as passive-aggressive, especially considering that you stated in the previous thread on transgender issues (in which you posted quite a bit) that transgender issues weren't high on your list of priorities.

I'm not saying you are being passive-aggressive, just that I can see how your posts would come across that way, and I do find it strange that you post so often in threads on transgender issues when you claim to have little interest in the subject.

why would you find it strange Moo? i post on a hell of a lot more than just transgender issues you know, a quick "find other posts" would've told you that.

posting on boards is not very high on my list of priorities either for that matter. if we were all to take the attitude that we have no business posting in a thread on transgender issues because other posters assume we have no experience of same, then this thread, and for that matter the last one, would have quickly gone nowhere.

we'll go with the assumption that i have no experience of what it is to be transgendered then, does that mean that anybody who has no experience of the issue cannot discuss their thoughts on it?

again that would make for a very limited discussion and for that matter an even more limited thread, and most of the posters like Links, Deirdre and ITMA would've had no platform to educate and inform people on what it is to be transgengered.



EDIT: just for the record, i disagree too with lots of people, whether they be transgendered or not is purely irrelevant to their personality and their attitude as a person and as a poster. i make no exceptions for posters that identify as transgendered because to me at least, i see all posters equally, and so while ones experience may lend weight to their opinion, it does not excuse them from showing tolerance for other posters opinions, whether they disagree with them or not.

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