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Here's to you, fandom suck!
Dec. 2nd, 2003 11:49 amImagine, if you will, the following situation. You're back in your senior year of high school -- remember that stressful, horrible time? You're in the process of applying to colleges. Now, your parents want you -- by which I mean no objections -- to apply to a certain difficult, prestigious college. You, yourself, have no desire to go there. You don't like the school, the location, the programs it offers, any of it. In addition, the application process is particularly long and painful, involving not only applications and essays, but also a huge, grueling entrance exam which will require hours and hours of study preparation, on top of all the other tests, essays, paper, applications and homework you have to do.
Now, as you go up to the administration office to hand in your application, you get told -- surprise! -- that you will be unable to apply for entry. Either your grades disqualify you, or they don't allow people of your particular religious sect in, or some other equally degrading reason. However, this means you won't have to submit the application, take the test, and you have a good excuse for your parents why you don't want to go.
Take that particular mixture of humiliation, anger, and relief, deform it about a hundred ways, and you've got pretty much how I'm feeling now.
( the setup )
( the bitch )
( the problem )
Now, I am going to do what another girl did, and she got flames, angry emails, and even threats.** I am going to tell you not to join this list. Because as long as TB is a co-mod, it is not a good place to be. That is my opinion not only as a list member, but as a moderator.
( the situation )
And now, as it happens, I have been asked to step down as a mod.
( the climax )
So. That's the saga. Now, what am I going to do about it, you ask?
( conclusion )
So. In conclusion? I'm gone. I won't unsub from the list, because I don't want to face an inquisition, but there's little difference between unsubbing and turning it to web-only and never going back there. I will urge all my friends to stay away from the list. And I will undoubtedly forget, soon enough, my bitterness at being involved in such a debacle.
( footnotes )
Now, as you go up to the administration office to hand in your application, you get told -- surprise! -- that you will be unable to apply for entry. Either your grades disqualify you, or they don't allow people of your particular religious sect in, or some other equally degrading reason. However, this means you won't have to submit the application, take the test, and you have a good excuse for your parents why you don't want to go.
Take that particular mixture of humiliation, anger, and relief, deform it about a hundred ways, and you've got pretty much how I'm feeling now.
( the setup )
( the bitch )
( the problem )
Now, I am going to do what another girl did, and she got flames, angry emails, and even threats.** I am going to tell you not to join this list. Because as long as TB is a co-mod, it is not a good place to be. That is my opinion not only as a list member, but as a moderator.
( the situation )
And now, as it happens, I have been asked to step down as a mod.
( the climax )
So. That's the saga. Now, what am I going to do about it, you ask?
( conclusion )
So. In conclusion? I'm gone. I won't unsub from the list, because I don't want to face an inquisition, but there's little difference between unsubbing and turning it to web-only and never going back there. I will urge all my friends to stay away from the list. And I will undoubtedly forget, soon enough, my bitterness at being involved in such a debacle.
( footnotes )
