Tony Parsehole wrote:
In all serious (and without trying to be overly offensive) A+ Forum seems like a gathering of actual mental patients. Each and every one of the people "on board" has some massive psychosis that they demand everybody pander too. I am not saying it's immoral to have poor mental health but delusions and paranoia should never be encouraged and threads like that one linked to earlier do exactly that. They get a platform to say some guy going about his way, not harming anybody is in the wrong because he didn't perform the sacrament of *walking to the fucking archery course* in the correct manner. And then we get the mod telling us how he socially annihilated a guy during a game of "Munchkins" because he said he was gonna "rape" an imaginary monsters face. DAFUQ? Killing the monsters in "Munchkins" is fine but don't rape their imaginary faces because......Fuck knows.
And I honestly think one the major issues there is seriously fucked-up view of the world. In fact, there was recently a post here concerning a comment on FfTB (which is more or less A+'s siamese twin) decrying those people who have 'extrovert privilege'. So often, they can be seen blaming their personal woes on either their apparent lack of privilege or the apparent abuse of privilege by others. Sally Deranged once tweeted that she was lacking in 'economic privilege'. That this might be down to her being a lazy heifer who couldn't be arsed to get a job other than being a lump in her sister's house was neither here nor there; that she could say something without any clear irony suggests that she considers herself some poor, blameless, shat-upon prole in this particular area of privilege. And besides, why
should she desire more economic privilege anyway? After all, wouldn't that just make her part of a privileged system that keeps everyone else down?
So the 'privilege' thing, as much as they appear to resent it, at least gives a veneer of nobility to their lack of...well, pretty much everything. No need to strive, to work hard, anything like that; because all you'll gain is more privilege, and as everyone knows, privilege - whether innate (gender or racial ) or acquired (economic, religious and so on) - is what causes so many problems in the world. And one can hardly dare to say, 'yeah, but if I had those privileges, I'd make a better job of being a decent person than all those others who share the same privileges', because then one is accepting that it's more about people as individuals rather than the system as they perceive it as it stands.
So really, when you're oppressed by the misuse of privilege by others, and that it's pointless to strive for more privilege because you'll only be propagating this terrible system that keeps so many people down, what the fuck can you do? Bemoan it, decry it...and dare not see any failings of your own, to the extent of - to paraphrase Richard Harris - passing off your vast limitations as personal virtues.
And all the while demanding, without a trace of irony, the privilege of having everyone else pander to those vast limitations.