I have repeatedly asserted that I was not emotional.
I don't care that you say you're not emotional. Your actions suggest otherwise. You jumped down MR's throat and acted as if your way was the word of God itself, and insisted yourself upon a situation out of pure reaction. You even seemed to change course later on (perhaps when you took a second to think about what you were writing).
Yet you seem incapable of paying attention and instead, you have repeatedly attempted to shut me out of this discussion by saying that I am being emotional. And as I have explained to you a few times now, this is what sexist and misogynistic men have often resorted to to try to shut women out of dialogue. And as I have requested several times now, cut it out.
I'm not going to stop telling you when you're being irrational or emotional, so stop asking me to.
I was attempting to get you to shut up because you were
wrong. If were reacting emotionally and were
right, I wouldn't have said anything.
If it clears the air any, and is any consolation, I do not mean "emotional" in the hand-wringing, hysterical, shut-up-wummin" misogynistic sense. I would say "obviously," but it's apparently not obvious to you, so there it is. When I say you are acting emotionally (and I don't just say it to you, I've said it to others, mostly males) I mean that you are being reactionary, or irrational.
Now, to the issue of the report button..
The issue isn't that is what I think of the report button Balerion. The issue is that you report every little thing. Anything at all. Half the time, it's for things you just don't agree with what a particular poster is saying or with their opinion. And I'm not talking about hate speech, or homophobic speech, etc. But half the time, it's with their opinion for disagreeing with you. That's not what it is designed for. You see anyone disagreeing with you or not bending to comply with your wishes as a personal insult or affront and you report them. There are times when hitting the report button is warranted. I'll put it this way, you only look for bad in people you don't like or who aren't agreeing with you.
Sorry, none of that is true. I report things when people aggressively break the rules. More accurately, I report them when they are attempting to disrupt a discussion. I do not report people for disagreeing with me, which is a ludicrous accusation, and one that you should retract because you have access to reports that regular members don't.
You didn't even see the posts where Sorcerer called for murdering pastors and bombing and burning churches. You didn't report it. It slipped under your radar because well, you're on the same side, fighting the same cause and you're both offended by the OP's request that atheists stop acting like we're brainless.
No, I missed it because I simply overlooked it. It happens.
I also don't report every instance of trolling, or flaming, even with people I don't agree with. I tend to do it when a poster has upset me. I find that it's better to report than to respond in kind. And there is a therapeutic element to it. And it's what we're told to do, so why are you complaining?
I responded to MR's comments to Yazata because he outed him in this thread. Yazata admitted he had said he was bisexual on another board (ie not on Sciforums). Whether he had said it on this board or not is beside the point. MR chose to out him in this thread and tried to use his (Yazata's) sexuality to force Yazata into being shamed into complying and agreeing with him. And that to me is so wrong. And you saw no issue with what MR was doing, because you are on the same side.
That isn't fair. I told you why I saw no issue with it. Is this one of those missed posts you're talking about?
So you open a ticket about me, because you disagree with the fact that I saw what MR was doing was wrong and told him so.
No, I opened a ticket because you were harassing MR. Disagreeing with someone's position is quite different from the tack you chose to take.
That's fine, you do that. But when the administrators view the tickets, and they do get the tickets so demanding Kitta reopen it is kind of silly
How am I supposed to know that, Bells?
, they will review it and in doing so, they will review the fact that MR basically outed Yazata's sexuality on this site and in this thread without Yazata's consent and then tried to use Yazata's sexuality to sway the debate. And that is exactly what MR was doing. He was trying to sway him into doing what he wanted by using his sexuality and expected him to do because of his sexuality.
No, he wasn't. He's told you as much, and so have I. You choose to ignore it, that's your business, but don't try to make anyone else fit into your narrow view. Your accusations were ugly and unwarranted. And what's frustrating is that you're fully aware of it, which is why you still haven't answered my question. You won't because you can't. Because you
know you're wrong, and all of this is for show, because it's about
appearing to be right, not
actually being right.
Now, if you think trying to use someone's sexuality to sway or force someone's hand or force them into complying with a particular opinion is acceptable, then fine for you. I, as a person, do not, which is why I expressed my opinion to MR about it.
No one is being forced into anything. No one is being persecuted. (You use language like that, and you expect no one to say you're being irrational?) MR wanted to know why someone who is so outspoken against atheist behavior and yet is himself a target of the behavior of the religious says nothing on that subject. It's a perfectly valid question. You do the same thing when you dictate how atheists should act in order to be "proper" atheists, or do atheism "the right way." For some reason, you have this illogical hangup because it's sexuality. I'm here to tell you, there's no difference.
