Check yourselves

Fugly said:
There are a lot of hypocrites in the active community. I posted a topic a couple of days ago about a theory spawned from a friend and modified by experience. It would seem that a handful of people are coming into everything I've said since and are posted hate images saying "That's Cool Bro!" and "You think you look like this, but really you look like this". I suppose the intention was to hurt my feelings, but according to this there should be none of that going on. There was no intention of hate involved on my end. The theory was controversial, but by looking at the band wagon of hate that got appended, you would think one hurt individual, presumably from their own insecurities, lost it and caused defensive friends to chime in. I believe the concept challenged and deviated from what is sought by many here, but that's not grounds enough for hate speech. If the collective responses author's hadn't been so emotional, maybe they would have seen that it was designed to give hope to females who don't recognize beauty in themselves so that they could let the thought of being sought in the future settle in their hearts. I see a lot of talk about equality, anti-bigotry, etc. but a lot of closed mindedness to foreign concepts. It would seem okay for some forum veteran who I think is married to a moderator to write hate, because hey.. she's connected to this relatively tight knit community. And this moderator, who undoubtedly needs to support his wife, comes in and quotes hateful responses and says "True." or "I agree." or something like that. So what is it? Don't be hateful or be hateful? I was very much hoping for grounded responses so that we could go back and forth, peacefully, and find reasoning for growth, something of that nature. What I found is ignorance and attention spans so small that you can't reason.

It would seem okay for some forum veteran who I think is married to a moderator to write hate, because hey.. she's connected to this relatively tight knit community. And this moderator, who undoubtedly needs to support his wife, comes in and quotes hateful responses and says "True." or "I agree." or something like that.

Ameridactyle said:
My 2nd day as a member and already drama. Wow. I hope stuff like this doesn't happen often. The vast majority of people on this site seem pretty awesome.