sailgirl7 wrote:Why would a person have a list of people they know are kind and good and yet ignore them or personally attack them because they disagree with their views?
Apparently I'm too young or immature to understand that.
Hi, Sailgirl.
I so appreciate your sweetness in standing up for me, but really, don't worry about it. Because I do not like Wade doesn't mean I expect others to dislike him. Perhaps they haven't endured his ad homenim attacks like I have and so have no reason at all to hold anything against him. To me, his condescending attitude is glaringly obvious, but we all have different perceptions.
For some reason, Wade personally attacked me on the very first thread I started on this board many months ago. The post was about the Licked Cupcake lessons I had in Young Women's, and for some reason, it really upset Wade, although there was no personal attack made toward him at all! Here's a portion of what he had to say to me on my very first post:
If you really think carefully about this, you will realize that it isn't the Church that is giving women a bad name, but women such as yourself who spew this kind of nonsense.
Please, for everyone's sake, get a grip on yourself and reality. Set aside your dysfunctional feminist agenda, and begin to adopt healthy and functional strategies that will result in mutual love, respect, and value. Stop looking at the Church as the cause for your problems, and begin to earnestly and honestly introspect. In other words, focus not on what you think the Church is saying about women, but instead focus on being the best woman you can be, and act lovingly and respectful and in ways that are valued, and the same will more likely be returned to you.
Thankfully, Runtu, Jason Bourne and others came to my defense. This was my thank you to them:
Thank you, Jason. And you, too, Runtu, for coming to my defense. I realized when I posted this essay there would be Mormons who wouldn't agree with my assessment of the treatment of females in Mormonism or my interpretation of the Licked Cupcake lesson. I was surprised that someone would say I give women a bad name. Or that I don't have a grip on myself or reality and that I do not behave in ways that are loving or respectful. I am far from perfect, but I can say with assurity that even the Mormons who know me in real life do not believe I'm an embarrassment to women or give women a bad name. Wade must be psychic to make such judgments of someone via an internet message board - especially with only one post as evidence! I say he's wasting his time kayaking around when he could be raking in the big bucks as the next Mr. Cleo.
Wade never apologized for assuming, after my first post, that I gave women a bad name. He later called me irrational and a whole host of other insulting things. Wade has consistently replied to my nearly every post saying that I misinterpret everything or am cognitively impaired or hysterical - and he always does it with his standard false sincerity and condescending, preachy tone.
I'm nothing but
thankful that he will be ignoring me in the future. I wish he'd ignored me from the get-go and have asked him to do so repeatedly. I'm getting my wish and I'm glad!
I imagine Wade is probably a decent, generous guy in real life, but he's never been that way to me on this board and I'm glad to be rid of him.
I think you're a doll, Sailgirl. Don't worry yourself one more minute over Wade or me. Just enjoy the board when you're not enjoying your babies. :)
KA