Actually Plum, you're right, it's not up to you. I find your tendency to just bristle at ANY contentious behavior to be amusing. So you spent many a post in this thread defending CAPN against M_E and then you switch to defending M_E against M-E!
Clearly, there was some SERIOUS psychological stuff happening in Mary's Memorable Meltdown. And the funny thing is, the joke about my thread is that I was playing off of Mary_Ethel's tendency to make reference to the countless number of PM's he'd gotten supporting his tirade. This is an OLD tactic of Mary_Ethel's, from one of his previous unbalanced screen names right on through to this one.
Funny thing is, I always thought he was lying, but my diagnosis thread really HAS received a lot of PMs and another funny thing is, so far the leading diagnosis by vote is a write-in!
I know you see any conflict as "hurtful," any losing loser party in a battle in need of your superhero intervention. And that's fine. All members of groups have roles to play, and that's yours. But if I were REALLY interested in being CRUEL with my diagnosis thread, it would have started with more of a "See, I told you so, I never liked Mary_Ethel and this is why: all the phoney sweetness and overuse of smiley icons is masking seething hostility that will blow like a volcano and unpredictable times," introduction.
So there, now you know my motivation. I know you seem to think this is more of a group therapy situation where people should know what is hurtful so that when they go out in the real world and try to have relationships, they'll know how to do it. Well, to me this place is the real world, and in the real world you sometimes have to develop a thick skin. In Mary_Ethel's case, that means lashing out and then putting the block on so that he doesn't have to deal with any ramifications.
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