For someone allegedly "articulate" and "intelligent" I don't half get things wrong sometimes! Erica wrote:
You've got me all wrong! No, I wrote it all wrong, I don't think being a victim of childhood bullying is something to aspire to, I was just trying to say i would like to look back and think it was a war of the cool vs the nerds, when it really wasn't, it was just a few people that picked on other people because they were different.
And all I can do is apologise (I'll mail you personally Erica, thanks for writing to me) and just remind people that this is a classic example of not thinking before you write and the way it can leave people feeling a bit bad about things. I realise that some things aren't as clear in print as they seem in your head, I'm certainly guilty of that some of the time, so to anyone who thinks I was being reactionary to Erica, I wasn't, well OK I was, but I read what she wrote the wrong way. It's just a subject close to my heart and I don't like it when I see it being dismissed or trivialised. I realise this isn't what Erica intended at all, it was just a misunderstanding, and it's all sorted out now (hopefully). Sorry again, I've been rather dull and if any of you want to talk to me off-list about the whole bullying thing, well you can. I'm sure no-one else really needs to read my public therapy sessions, I just needed to get it off my chest and I hope none of you think I'm craving attention, trying to fulfil an angst-ridden stereotype or any of the other things I probably seem to be doing. I'm just starting to realise that I don't have to feel shit about what happened to me when I was a kid, and maybe talking about it is some sort of catharsis and also it might help other people too. I realise probably no-one took what Erica said the way I did, and so all I was doing was talking bollocks and re-iterating a thread that has been done to death several times before, but I do think there is a world out there that exists beyond songs like Expectations and Lord Anthony and Misshapes. I'll leave it at that. Sorry for being so dull and stupid and reactionary and generally a bit rubbish. It's probably PMT. Ailsa xx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+