tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275324444037113498.post8418968452862945399..comments2022-04-10T10:15:39.187+01:00Comments on Laura Lexx: The Wrong Word For TodayGuy Patchinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828573194856958005noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275324444037113498.post-77185285382989358412011-09-12T22:26:34.523+01:002011-09-12T22:26:34.523+01:00What a charming and classy reply, thank you. No of...What a charming and classy reply, thank you. No offense caused - it takes a lot to make me cry (9/11 just about qualifies :-) )<br /><br />On the positive side, may I say that you write clearly and concisely (albeit with an odd affection for semi-colons) and I'm pleased I stumbled upon your blog - it's a shame you don't have more feedback on your other posts: many of them make for excellent reading. <br /><br />I sincerely hope my criticism has not upset you in any way and hope to return and enjoy your work again. <br /><br />Yours, <br /><br />DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275324444037113498.post-53403905954795658722011-09-12T14:10:43.369+01:002011-09-12T14:10:43.369+01:00Thank you for your comments - as I put throughout ...Thank you for your comments - as I put throughout the blog, this is a personal piece of writing about my own difficulties with how to respond to the mass grief of others. I'm not suggesting at all that I am right or that how I feel is appropriate or normal. I'm just exploring my own reaction to this enormous event. I am writing about my inability to understand and respond to it. I appreciate your feed back and I take it very seriously. I would like to reiterate, however, that my views on the events of 9/11 are far from apathetic - I just see the motivations behind it as a separate issue from how one deals with universal tragedy. I was worried my eloquence would fail the issues I was struggling with in my head and it seems that it has on this occasion so I sincerely apologise if any offence has been caused from my writing.LauraLexxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00570452221624391117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275324444037113498.post-44510640314286726082011-09-12T02:56:52.305+01:002011-09-12T02:56:52.305+01:00Providing one is alive, it's an inescapable ev...Providing one is alive, it's an inescapable event whether or not one owns a media device. This is a direct consequence of it being an anniversary viz. Not, by definition or etymology, a celebration, but the yearly recurrence of the date of a past event. You may find it useful - as a general rule of writing - to check the definition of a word before declaring it inappropriate for a given purpose.<br /><br />To describe what follows in the above as sophomoric would be hugely insulting to sophomores. Clearly you feel that a homicidal islamo-fascist attack on a free western democracy is not a fit - or 'appropriate' - subject for 'third-party' grief or sadness. The person above has shown why this is a nonsense. Beyond that, the greater tragedy is that you do seem to consider yourself a 'third-party'.<br /><br />Putting the personal tragedies to one side, 9/11 was an attack on freedom and liberty - the very things that make your 'frank' blogging (and, I see, your comedy)possible. If you feel no 'emotive connection' to what happened that day, I would suggest you seriously need to revisit some of the lessons you learnt in your history classes at 14.<br /><br />I'm sorry if I seem harsh, but I find it contemptuous that a 24 year old western woman - who has clearly had the benefit of education - can spout such ill-considered, apathetic drivel in the public sphere. For shame.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275324444037113498.post-9071250559323586522011-09-11T21:36:18.776+01:002011-09-11T21:36:18.776+01:00Crying and being sad about something terrible that...Crying and being sad about something terrible that has happened is NOT the same as grieving.<br /><br />Also, its pretty normal and healthy to be upset and saddened by awful events that don't happen directly to us. <br /><br />This is apathy in its extreme.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com