h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Oh. Is *that* what he's all upset about? Dear me. I am dim, I took it at face value, absolutely. Anyway, Jordan, am I forgiven for ranting at you, please?

Jordan: " Apparently, you're the only one who cares so much about it that they're bothered about the 'sexist, misogynistic terms' in which I phrased it, so it has served its purpose"

Well, if its purpose was to demonstrate that you're a kneejerk misogynist, and make Della look like a barely literate empty-headed woman simpering around your playground attempts at insult, then yes, you're right, it's served its purpose.

If on the other hand its purpose was to upset me in any way - sorry, try again, it's the funniest thing that's happened on this site this week, and I'm highly pleased by it. Someone who was trying to insult me has come off making themselves look like a woman-hating idiot, yet they've done it so subtly that they've managed to get a self-described feminist to egg them on at it. Bothered by it? I'm grinning from ear to ear.

Della: " Dear me. I am dim,"

Yes, dear, I know, that was precisely my point - thank you for making it for me again. As usual, you didn't bother to engage your brain.

"I took it at face value, absolutely. "

Absolutely, and you didn't even bother to consider what "face value" is, in exactly the same way as you didn't bother to think before tossing around racial abuse.

Jordan, you're not another one of Della's amusingly violent yet ineffective kids, are you?

'Well, if its purpose was to demonstrate that you're a kneejerk misogynist, and make Della look like a barely literate empty-headed woman simpering around your playground attempts at insult, then yes, you're right, it's served its purpose.'

There's a little thing called evidence, Member. If you think I'm a misogynist, you're what we like to call a statistical 'outlier'. That is, your opinion is not shared by the majority of this site. I'm willing to bet that no one else on this site is so stupid as to think that a single pun has transformed me overnight into a bigot.

'If on the other hand its purpose was to upset me in any way - sorry, try again, it's the funniest thing that's happened on this site this week, and I'm highly pleased by it.'

Little things...

'Someone who was trying to insult me has come off making themselves look like a woman-hating idiot, yet they've done it so subtly that they've managed to get a self-described feminist to egg them on at it.'

Hee hee. Idiot? From someone who thinks that people who don't enjoy Slim Shady must be illiterate?

'Bothered by it? I'm grinning from ear to ear.'

Knock yourself out. If I'm a misogynist in this fantasy world you're constructing, fine. Now, why not go and listen to the secret messages Eminem speaks, just for you?

- Jordan

I'm shocked, frankly, at how hostile I am to you. What really frustates me is that you seem like you CAN be more polite. Comments like post 59, though: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/F120604?thread=365155&skip=40&show=20 I mean, it's just not necessary! Realistically, the comments we're making simply aren't suitable for a public forum. There are very young people who also use this site, and there are people who simply don't want to see this sort of thing. It's apparent that my responses are just as base as yours, so I'm equally in the wrong. Therefore, I'm going to stop. I shall try to respond to your posts - perhaps not politely, but civily. I shall also request moderation for any posts that you make which breach the site rules, and if I respond before calming down I shall ask for my own posts to be hidden as well. I'm going to leave what has gone before. Because there's a lot of 'last-wordism' going around, I'm going to leave you to post whatever you want to in reply to that last one - even people with new misogynistic nicknames need to vent some steam. ;-) - Jordan

In case it's not clear, that's an apology, and a resolution on how I will behave in future. I certainly won't change your behavior, but I can change mine and I can get rid of things I consider unsavoury.

- Jordan

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Oh now I get it. This all stems from pure arrogant thinking. I presume this is UK radio, UK books, UK news papers. It's a wonder these two can see or type with all the sticky stuff that must be surrounding them.

What two?

- Jordan

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