Reply #135: Methinks the lady doth protest too much

[RazzleDazzle]

See my previous post.

Laughter can also be an immature coping mechanism. I'd forgotten about that until I saw your continued defense of words you now want to somehow disavow or render meaningless because they weren't taken in context of your whole body of work here at DU. (That ain't gonna fly, btw.) Jokes and a silly demeanor can be used when the jokester just isn't comfortable facing reality. Jokes and silliness deflect it, distract others from pursuing those lines of uncomfortalbe thought. Not saying this is true in your case, I don't know.

Nor is anyone "judging you" based on a single post. We're challenging the ATTITUDE (thoughts) expressed in that ONE POST. If you don't want your ideas and attitudes taken at face value post-by-post and challenged on that basis then you probably need to find some other way (or place) to express them.