Comments on: This is MY sofa!

By: just another tranny

just another tranny — Mon, 21 May 2012 06:32:09 +0000

Aaag…zir old chicken head attacks with the weak attempt at insult. Sorry, your bait is not up to snuff. The obvious point which you and *miss dennis* try to ignore is that in both cases you have societies’ lowest life forms not only taking refuge behind claims of transgenderism but in the one case being defended by the lgbt sponsored Lamda Legal which has done more than raise a few eyebrows among real life lesbian feminists.
In neither case is this troll impressed with your weak attempts at dismissal. But I do appreciate your at least taking notice.

By: Miss Dennis Queen (@missdennisqueen)

Miss Dennis Queen (@missdennisqueen) — Sat, 19 May 2012 10:39:32 +0000

those links look like spam to me.

By: Robyn

Robyn — Fri, 18 May 2012 14:25:13 +0000

Sorry, should have said a commenter like Just another tranny, and not number 6. We are, after all, not numbers.

By: eclectic chicken

eclectic chicken — Fri, 18 May 2012 14:15:31 +0000

well…their pretty far apart distance wise but i guess as theres a week or more between the reports you could be the guilty party in both.

But if what you are trying to say is look trannies do nasty things… then i just havn’t got enough hours in the day to post all the nasty things done by non trans people.

ot is there another point you are trying to make?

By: Robyn

Robyn — Fri, 18 May 2012 14:14:47 +0000

Absolutely not, as you’ve already pointed out the freedom of speech is provided by the blogging service you use, as is the freedom to publish comment that you think is acceptable.

With defamation laws as they currently are in this country (UK) and with bloggers being sued because of comments they have published we have to be careful about what appears on our blogs.

And then you have commenters like number 6 who feel the need to extrapolate meaningless findings from two press reports – or am I just reading too much into the comment, and finding my “yooman” right not to be offended infringed

By: just another tranny

just another tranny — Thu, 17 May 2012 08:43:47 +0000

Thank you for your loving support.

A Happy Cuddly Troll

http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_news/norfolk/teens-claim-attack-by-crossdressers

http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news/Transgender-woman-on-parole-for-child-sex-assault-149941805.html

By: debzmaher

debzmaher — Thu, 17 May 2012 08:04:41 +0000

Hmm trolls, I have read far to much Pratchett to be able to understand the word to have any other meaning than large, rather slow but straightforward and polite creatures. However, i do understand what u mean by impolite and intrusive folk who hog ya virtual sofa and eat the last virtual biccy in the tin! i am a polite and respectful person, albeit I don’t suffer fools gladly, i am capable of disagreeing with an opinion without making it personal i hope!

By: Robyn

Robyn — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:08:26 +0000

One person’s troll is someone else’s holder of forthright opinion. There is the ability to express oneself forthrightly without having to resort to insult to get the message across.

I disagree with Peter Tatchell on this point – not that he gives one jot about what I think. I don’t think it’s absolutely a freedom of speech issue not to be able to insult people, it has always been better (in my mind at least) to tackle the ideology expressed rather than the individual espousing them.

I like trolls anyway, I think they’re cuddly creatures with masses of day-glo hair in need of some good old fashioned love

By: Quiet Riot Girl

Quiet Riot Girl — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:11:54 +0000

I think you make good points. Except for the use of the ‘troll’ word. It does not add clarity to your post rather it obfuscates.

I get called a ‘troll’ (and much worse) often. I think the word is used as an insult and a ‘typology’ as other words have in the past, words that you would think it ‘impolite’ to use, to describe whole sections of society.

On that Richard Bacon programme about ‘trolls’ he mainly focused on people who trawl facebook for tribute pages of recently deceased people, often young people. and they then throw abuse at the grieving family and friends, anonymously.

and I and others who happen to be quite forthright in our opinions get lumped in with those ‘RIP trolls’ deliberately by our detractors.

I don’t use the ‘t’ word myself. But maybe that is because I identify with it.

By: seventhvoice

seventhvoice — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:30:54 +0000

Thank you for this post. I’ve been wondering myself lately just where to draw the line with some of the comments I receive. Most are thoughtful and engaging but a few have been down right confrontational if not derogatory. Those ones I choose not to publish but I do question whether or not, if in doing so, I’m creating my own form of censorship. But then I think, well, this is a blog site. If they feel so strongly about their own opinions, then they can write their own blog about it. They don’t need to be promoted on mine. Is this wrong do you think?