Reply #528: I'm SO glad to know...

[casstheturtle]

...that some people who claim to help people like us, consider us attempting to talk about the realities of our lives, including the results of policies that affect us, as something that we're doing this for the fun of it.

I am sure that every single one of us who actually live in poverty could figure out more fun things to do with our time than put our unpopular opinions and inconvenient experiences out there, only to be forced to relive the ways we're spat on every day already, and in one case to be put in a position that could easily lead to injury or death.

To accuse someone of going through all that just for the 'melodrama' and 'masturbation' of it is somewhere near obscene, and to attempt to goad vulnerable people into disclosing enough of their lives to be tracked down is more than bordering on it.

bobbolink? Two Americas? Oak2004? How many things do you think we can think of that are more fun than this conversation? I bet together we could think of thousands.

The good thing about the Internet is that it's not a do-gooder's office somewhere, and the direct power plays and threats of a 'helper' over a 'helpee' are much harder to pull off. The bad thing is that human beings seem to be inventive enough to try to find more and more elaborate ways to engage in them anyway. Which is why you'll never see me revealing enough information to be tracked down no matter how much goading goes on.