Steelslilbit
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Using quick reply, got to page 10 and just couldn't take it any more. This should probably be moved to the off topic of discussion board because by page 10 it is sooo far from the OP it's actually quite entertaining. The initial topic was about a girl who didn't like the "rude" messages being sent to her through email. By page 10 we've gone from that to how it's rude to not respond to email. I've been laughing so hard reading this. It's not that some of you haven't made very good points....but by and large it's all semantics and political correctness to begin with. You can't please everyone. Someone out there is going to think even a very polite email rude because it's coming FROM SOMEONE YOU DON'T KNOW. If you don't like an email you're being sent, block it. Feel free to hide your profile. Who cares if someone thinks you blocking them is rude or hiding your profile means you have something to hide? Do you know them? Do you care what they think of you? If I ever came to care what every individual on this site or the internet thought of me I'd put a bullet in my head and end what would no doubt turn into a life of misery, angst, and regret. I could really give a hoot less what the ratio of men to women is on this site. What I know from personal experience is that new women's emails are blown sky high and it's amazing that any of us stuck around long enough for it to dwindle down. I have no idea what guys go through when they first log on, it may be different, it might not be. I don't care enough to make a male profile to find out myself. And the amount of time that goes into an email doesn't matter to me in the least. Some of THE MOST OFFENSIVE emails I've ever gotten were incredibly long winded. I had one guy for an initial email send me a story of what he would do to me if he ever got me alone, and it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. However I don't respond to "hi" either, and most of the initial emails I get now a days are closer to the "hi". Fortunately I am only looking for friends (mostly in my area that I could eventually meet), and to keep in touch with some of the friends that I have made during my time here. I get to be more picky about what emails I respond to. Oh, and speaking of which, don't you ever think you have the right to tell me who to respond to and who not to. Just as I would respect your right to respond to or not respond to a rude email, if you are going to take it personally that someone hasn't responded to your well thought out and polite email.....perhaps online looking/dating/BDSM is not for you. I agree that perhaps your skin is a bit too thin when it comes to this. I have had more than a few polite emails never responded to, and all I can say is that it never stopped me from writing the next profile that struck my attention. Rude is, in fact, a matter of opinion.....in a realm where opinion is like an asshole, everyone has one and everyone swears theirs smells like roses. Amazing how so many people can be right, and wrong, all at the same time, simply based on where you want to look at it, and who's opinion you want to take into account first. The world is not soft and squishy people, get over it is right. And stop trying to make the rest of us more soft and squishy just because you think we should be.
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i'll try anything once, twice if i like it. If you wanna know you better ask, and if i don't want to answer i won't. Offical Language: Caryn-ese (Translator available upon request)
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