It was perfectly civil and all about the snacks till JC started throwing down about the girlie men. Then sh!t got real. It was all "are you talking about me? Are you talking about ME?!" I missed the final hammer blow.
I'm not going to comment. There's some cool fellas on this board, and *I* wouldn't call them girlie men. Ill just say... The good ones are still standing.
Me42, H40 D12, S8, S7 A revealed: 7/13 Sep 4/14; Agreed to D 1/15
Hah! You know - when they started flinging around all the "girlie man" comments - all I could think of was the old SNL skit with Hans and Franz pumping up the manly men and calling oout the girlie ones.
I'm ashamed to admit I was at work refreshing my screen every few minutes to catch the next salvo. A better person wouldn't have paid it any attention, but the train wreck was pretty magnetic.
It took everything I had not to jump in that thread. But I'm TRYING to "know my place" and respect others' spoken wishes. It's one of my ongoing 180s.
Suffice it to say (not that it was needed because we already knew): that thread separated the boys - er, boy - from the men here. And I was left with no surprises. (But I resisted writing one final post to close the thread, and it was going to be: "Y'all see now why men need women?" ... then I realized that cave was NOT feelin' my would-be humor, sooooo I just got lost.)
Hugs, Maybell.
M: 40 H: 44 Married 14 years S11 & D6; D20 & D19 from previous M 2BDs/PAs, 8 years apart Piecing: April 2014
I loooove a good thread Fire. I was naive in my early days of forums and used to want to keep every one nice and stand up for the right to discuss things. I learnt in time how to say things in a way to get a pony across but stay away from stuff that will get me in huge trouble.
Now days I watch train wrecks and love it.
180 to respect bounderies. I think I did and can do this, but h would not.
If can see a boundary and respect it, hopefully mine will be repsected. With my behaviour being reflected back.
I hope. I need to update my thread I had a fun day. Nothing major small steps.,
M 46 h54 Both married before T 11y Bd 2/14 I must see where ow leads! Ms 18 hs 26
About the flame out, it you give people enough rope, eventually they hang themselves. Or those who play with fire eventually get burned-whatever the best metaphor is for flame out.
I did comment on the thread, because I saw Mach1 had posted and I always read his posts when I see them.
Conflagrations are mesmerizing.
JustIncredible apparently has some lessons still to learn.
Me 57/H 58 M36 S 2.5yrs R 12/13
Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering. Caroline Myss
I agree the crash and burns are always a bit amusing to watch. In a twisted sort of way
Oddly, because many people thought I would be one of the women who was offended by the thread and believed that I might actually post something there...
I chose to stay off because I actually thought the PREMISE of the thread was a good idea. Not necessarily the original topic, but the premise that men need (just like women do) a place to talk to other men about how men view things. And the beginnings of some interesting conversations were begun there. Sadly, now, they are gone.
The mods have handled the thread in the best way and whether the poster is banned or moderated is unknown. It is probably best to leave that topic be from now on.
"Acceptance doesn't mean resignation. It means understanding that something is what it is and there's got to be a way through it."--Michael J. Fox
