[Northkeep] Lighten up and Where has all the fun gone.

[Angus Mac]

Thanks for your oppinion marc   it was very long..
sorry i did not have time to read it all but i have 92
more emails to resopnd to during my 30 min lunch

But the first para: sounded good

Angus
--- Marc Carlson <marc-carlson at utulsa.edu> wrote:
> You know, I'm betting there are probably about 150
> people on this list -- I won't even pretend
> to guess how many on the Ansteorra and Northern
> Regional lists.  Of those, there are very few
> who will say things that everyone will agree with
> (and I already know I'm not one of them, thank
> you).  But you know, we don't have to agree with
> each other -- we just have to play nice if
> possible.  I know that for -ME- that means sometimes
> really thinking about how what I say
> is going to come across (there are those here who
> may remember what my messages look
> like when I *don't* care how it appears, and can
> tell you that there are marked differences).
>
> This means that not everyone is going to find the
> same things funny, or interesting.  I know that if
> I were to start posting a daily diary entry to this
> list, some people would start getting board with it.
> If I started sending (even joking) messages bashing
> Norsemen - something that would be perfectly
> in keeping with my persona, mind you, eventually
> some of the Norse persona's (and not a few of
> the people with Scandinavian ancestry, would start
> getting tired of it.  Others, OTOH, would likely
> find it regularly hilarious (I can be pretty funny
> when I'm insulting people).  We might assume that
> people could (and should) just delete things that
> they don't like.  But does it mean that they
> should have to take it in the first place?
>
> If I'm in my work place, and I decide to start
> joking with the ladies around here (so much so that
> they
> are uncomfortable) is that sexual harassment, or
> should they 'lighten up'?
>
> Ok, no one likes being told that they are doing
> something "wrong", or believe something that's "bad"
> or whatever.  Irving doesn't like having his
> religion bashed, Sam doesn't like being told that
> he's an
> insensitive clod, Timmy doesn't like reading
> something he sees as historically accurate -  and so
> they
> knee-jerk and make a stupid response that just makes
> things worse.
>
> So, maybe we, and that's me included, should try
> talking to the person offending us privately before
> showing our butts publicly.  If you can't reach that
> person because you've been killfiled/bozo filtered/
> whatever, catch a clue -- they are ignoring you.
> Get over it.  Let's try acting like adults for a
> change.
>
> Marc/Diarmaid
>
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