| | Hi Philip,
"I 've noticed that SOLO has a very nice, friendly, and supportive group of people. (Which is the reason I've stayed..."
I was recently made aware that "friendly and supportive" is being sneered at as "group hugs" in other places. I posted a quote from Barbara ("Fortunately, Solo is not respectable") earlier, but screwed up the thread having a chance to take off by posting it twice by mistake. So a post by me on this got buried over there. As I have a callous where my sense of shame should be, I will repeat it here:
I was just sent an e-mail suggesting that I look at another site (which I prefer not to grace by mentioning - no free advertising in this post). This site claims to be much more respectable in maintaining the true spirit of Objectivism. What I read, though, was mostly bitching about SOLO and name-calling type bickering between the posters.
What amused me greatly was that I saw some of MY posts from SOLO repeated and sneered at as prompting group hugs and the like. They also don't like being thrown off SOLO. They especially don't like fags (but they seem to like circle jerks).
Well talk about mind-body dichotomy! I guess it is OK for them to talk about joy but not OK to show it.
Fuck 'em.
I am not gay (I like kittens), but I will proudly stand with the gay members on this forum and basically say to the Objectivist world:
WE'RE HERE. WE'RE QUEER. GET USED TO IT.
(That unfortunately came from Madonna, but I really like the line.)
It sure feels good to know that I am bothering some people out there from in here - in my own Galt's Gulch - with "group hugs" from those I respect and admire and everything else they envy.
That is the spirit I associate with Barbara's tongue-in-cheek comment.
Sorry to hijack your thread, Kelly, but this at least is in the ball park of your article.
Michael
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