Concerning the previous post

[36.livejournal.com]

For the record, I read all of the previous thread to rockstargrrl's post (now deleted) and there weren't any attacks or flames, the most heated it got were people asking what they considered triggering and if they meant that poetry was inherently more triggering than other kinds of posts.

I don't want anyone considering posting to worry they may be flamed. I don't think I've ever seen a flame war on this community.

Update: oh someone beat me to it. While I'm here, it's actually considered rude to delete other people's comments en mass. Nothing unreasonable was said and the discussion might have been useful if this ever came up again.

-David.

Comments

[thenetwork.livejournal.com]

We missed the thread. It was deleted before we got to it this morning. But one of us would like to address one specific aspect of the whole thing -- the misuse of the word "trigger" to justify the worst self-indulgence. We'd like to point out here that *the wording is his own* but we share these opinions, although he holds them for very specific (and sound) reasons indeed.

This couldn't stuff is an insult to people I've known. It's hard not to sound like People magazine, but I've seen guys crawling on the bones of their forearms, sobbing "i fuckin cant" the while --but crawling. This shit insults their memory. I got nothing against that girl who "can't scroll," but she fucking needs to stop sucking her thumb from the wrong end. We were teenagers too. I know about triggers. If a fly lands on me, I want to scream. But what I do is swat it, grit my teeth, and move on. If you didn't fold when the bad shit was happening, you won't fold now.

Thank you for hearing me.

Eric Yolen

missed it all too

[moablaharet.livejournal.com]

Certain people in our system were too busy with the carnivorous fest of Canadian Thanksgiving, and missed the whole mess.

As far as I'm concerned, there will be shit in life that will make me feel bad. I'll smell something, or someone will say something in a familiar tone of voice...and it may remind me of something else, and it will make me upset remembering that, but it doesn't run my life. I deal. Maybe that's insensitive and maybe it's crude, but I deal and I don't blame other people for my internal crap.

-David

Re: missed it all too

[thenetwork.livejournal.com]

Not insensitive nor crude. It's called dignity.