Stirring the Swarm (DSM, not me)

[a_d_medievalist]

So I posted a comment in response to this post, at Deirdre S. Moen’s blog. I’m posting it here, too, since I have commented there in the past, but the comments were not approved

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[sartorias]

A very telling point that the comment was not allowed through. Color me not surprised, but very, very disappointed. But Moen has acted disagreeably all through this mess. At least Shaun Duke said straight out, "I fucked up."

[a_d_medievalist]

I should be clear that it was a previous comment that was not posted. This one may have been/may eventually be: I just wanted to make sure that I hadn't wasted my time by writing all of that and having it go into the ether.

[sartorias]

Okay.

Still.

[tisiphone]

I'm surprised at the amount of vitriol directed at people with mental illness (or presumed to have such) in that collection of posts, given how rapid the author was to point out her own mobility disadvantages. It doesn't give me a good impression. (Having spent an awful lot of time in Ops during Eastercon, on account of them forgetting to allocate a proper Gopher Hole, I have other opinions on her assessment of what happened the afternoon before, but that's neither here nor there.)

[bugshaw]

Dr. Sperring, even :-)

[a_d_medievalist]

bugshaw, I used Ms. on purpose, because I was separating Kari the author from Kari the scholar for Google purposes, in case she wanted to separate the two. :-)

[mevennen]

>"She made me do it," is what people say when they don't want to take responsibility for their own actions.

Basically, she fucked up and was made to feel small, so she's now squirming about trying to justify her actions in an increasingly desperate way. I've washed my hands of her.

[la_marquise_de_]

Wait, what? She took it on herself to question my academic ability? On the basis of her having made a mistake?
And she thinks that a victim of bullying should never say anything negative about the person who did the bullying, because it's unethical?

I do not have words.

[a_d_medievalist]

Hey, at least she just keeps digging herself in deeper.

[la_marquise_de_]

I guess so.