Rodgerwilco
Entertainment boards w/ some Hockey mixed in.
- Feb 6, 2014
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If you don't give a rats ass about my opinion, I'm not sure why my laugh reaction would have any affect. No problem, FWIW I was not trying to imply that I think you're a racist and a bigot. It's always interesting to get more colorful personalities, but that can come with a certain air of seeming to be accepting of that kind of behavior, which becomes problematic. Especially for a brand like CBS.Well, in my post above that got all the crap started, I said I was likely going to regret posting it. You laughed at the post, and then went on to prove me right and regret my honesty. You certainly weren't alone though and there were far worse comments where I was essentially accused of being a racist and a misogynist, and possibly a bigot although I'm not sure about the last one. In fact, looking back now, if what you said had been said in a vacuum where I wasn't being attacked on all sides, I likely would have never got my back up about it. So, sorry about that.
But listen, I've seen the "Go watch something else then" comments before, said by many people to many different people. I kind of see them akin to, "If you don't like my country, go find somewhere else." No one needs to hear that, either as highly offensive as that is when it's said out of racism or politics, or even when it's just used as an argument about a TV show. As benign as your comment was in comparison, I can make up my own mind about what I want to watch.
In post #13 of this thread I said about Survivor, "It's like that codeine habit I developed in my 20s where eventually it didn't make me feel good anymore. I couldn't understand why I was still using it, but I couldn't stop."
We're cool, but I hope this is the last time I have to address someone who tells me to go watch something else. There are parts of Survivor I hate, but there are parts where I'm surprised and I still enjoy it, like this season's finale which I thought was excellent. Drug references aside, that's enough to keep me going for now.
My "go watch something else" was a legitimate and heartfelt suggestion. I used to LOVE playing League of Legends when it was new, i thoroughly enjoyed it and played it just about every day. After a few years I did not like the direction that the game and player base were heading, so I cut my losses and moved on. I liked a lot about the game, but the overriding feeling I got was negative. It's pretty reasonable to re-consider engaging in something that causes a lot of negative feelings.