Immature? That's me, baby.

[bubosquared]

So there's this person who asked to be taken off my friends list. I declined. She said I'd have to answer for it [or words to that effect]. Then she craeted a new LJ. Which I found. And friendified, yes.

Immature of me? Probably, yes, but when I get threatened and talked down to, I tend to get pissy, and when I'm pissy, I act petty. And once again, if you have a public journal, you should be prepared for people to read it. I read LJs through my friends page, and I refuse to add yet another link to my collection just because you can't handle knowing that I read your journal.

And yes, actually, I do act like this in real life. You know why? Because I was raised in the conviction that you're allowed to speak your mind, and that if people are rude to you and [willfully?] misinterpret your words, you are not obliged to be considerate of their feelings anymore. As for my net-time, I'm online at work, okay? I spend about an hour in short breaks doing private things, and a couple of hours after work chatting and surfing. In total, It's not really that much.

And I do have friends. I count my net friends as real friends, because they are, and I may not have many of them, but at least I know they're real friends, who like me for who I really am.

Also note, Oh Exalted One, that anyone can see people's friends lists, okay? I didn't have to pose as your friend to get your new addy, I just looked at their profiles.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what we kept trying to tell her, but the concept behind a public journal didn't seem to register with her. Jezus. Some people.

I'm really mostly baffled by her attitude of "I don't care if you talk about me r talk back to me, as long as I don't have to see it." I mean, WTF? That's the whole reason I have her and a number of others on my friends list; to see if they're spreading lies about/basing me/us. I'd kinda like to know when people're talking shit abut me where others can see it, y'know?

I'm foncused.

Taking pissed-off to a new level.

[minette.livejournal.com]

Well, they're mostly private now so we won't know if/when they're bashing/lying about us. Besides, I think we just gave them new fodder for bitching with all of the recent events. Watch me not care.

As for the "as long as I don't see, I don't know" attitude that The Exalted One embraces, well, I guess she's one of those people who avoids all the unpleasantness and controversy, and pretends the world is perfect.

She won't face the consequences of her actions. If you bash someone in your journal, people are going to respond and not always politely. It's happened to all of us and we always fucking dealt with it without throwing a goddamn hissy fit and stomping off into our own little corner, grumbling at the mean people who wouldn't play nice with us.

Is it too much to ask for people to actually be able to handle dissenting opinion? Are we really being unreasonable in asking other people to let us speak our minds when we're letting them speak theirs?

She's making me discover new depths of annoyance and pettiness that I never knew I had before, that's all I'm saying.

Re: Taking pissed-off to a new level.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Mind if I not care along with you? Thanks.

I hate that attitude. Goddamn women!

Exactly. God knows I've been opposed, thwarted and just plain wrong a number of times in the past. I always listened to people's arguments, considered them, and either explained why I thought people's arguments were wrong, or accepted them as true. That's how I was raised. Kris and Co may not agree that that's a good way to raise one's kid, but my parents managed to bring up 3 kids without much trouble. I'd say it worked.

Ah, but when they speak their minds, it's called free speech. When we do it, we're denying them the right to express their opinion. Cause ther can be only one, you know?