Fanfics, ratings & heated responses (LONG)

[Haggridd <jkusalavagemd@yahoo.com>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "heiditandy" <heidit at n...> 

> > 
> > Haggrid then chimed in that she could see what ER was trying to 
say, 
> > even though her word choice may have been poor.
> 
> (Um, Diana? Haggridd's a guy - just an FYI)
> 

Yeah, but I am secure enough in my masculinity that it doesn't bother 
me <g>-- and I just love showtunes! Just ask Amy Z.


> Whew. Hope I covered everything, but I'm sure I missed a few here &
> there...
> 
> Heidi, recovering

One thing that is worth covering, in all seriousness, is that to 
disagree with others' opinions is not necessarily an attack on those 
persons' lifestyles, values, or right to live their lives as they 
choose, but to respond as if it were an attack rapidly makes it a 
self-fulfilling prophecy.  I think that an intemperate and defensive 
response to a post that was by no means an attack diverted this 
thread into unnecessary acrimony.  I have my own personal villains in 
this scenario, whom I will keep to myself-- as do many of you, I am 
sure. Perhaps I am on somebody's villain list.  I can live with 
that.  I have tried to be dispassionate about a matter of literary 
criticism.  It has absolutely no connection whatever with my views on 
anti-discrimation laws for gays-- pardon me, QAJ, gay persons-- of 
which I am wholeheartedly in favor, or with my personal sexuality, 
which is my own business.  I do get very very angry when a bit of 
textual criticism is responded to by distortion, innuendo and mean-
spirited epithets.  To quote another wonderful English author,
"Physician, heal thyself."

Haggridd
(I don't know if you were joking or if it was a typo, Heidi, but the 
plural of synopsis is "synopses".  Sorry, you just can't take the 
beta reader out of the post.)