Reply #8: You're absolutely right, Jake. [View All]

[Sapphocrat]

It is the same as it ever was. The only difference is that those who were forced to suppress their homophobia (publicly) under the old mod system (imperfect as it was) have been given free rein to express it -- and use it for their own ends -- through the no-recourse "jury" system.

I guess all I'm really saying is that it hurts more now.

But you're right. It's just as I've always said, after coming out to people who couldn't handle it: "The only difference between now and five minutes ago is that now you know."

I know... We've always known. But -- damn! -- it still hurts like fresh hell to see it put (literally) into action.

No, the owners will NOT "finally be forced to take some sort of positive action to clean the place up." That is not going to happen. I want very badly to quote/link a very specific post to prove my claim, but I can't without doing a major call-out and/or getting banned (and I am sure I am treading on very thin ice as it is). The upshot is simply: The New DU is exactly what it was meant to be, and functioning exactly as it was always supposed to. It's a wet dream for some.

If that doesn't make sense, I'm sorry. I'm being as cryptic as I can be, with good reason.

In the end... Goddamn, I feel so hated, all over again... as if I were 15 years old, running home after last period as fast as my legs would carry me to avoid the bullies who at lunchtime swore to bash my skull in the girls' room... again.

I just didn't expect it would be given such free rein 35 years later. Stupid me. Fucking stupid me.

Jesus... No wonder our kids kill themselves. I don't know how some of us managed not to.

:(