Nun starts drama storm. Film when hell freezes over.

[sistawendy]

Remember a couple of entries ago, when I expressed shock and dismay at being called my son's dad in public? I cross-posted it to Zuckerberg's data mine. Drama ensued. Once again, it was an unpleasant surprise. I mean, it's wonderful that plenty of my friends have my back, but it's less than wonderful that some of them now aren't speaking to each other. And some of the 'splaining that went on was kind of like watching the fireball from a derailed fuel train: hypnotic and voluminous, but messy and tragic.

Resolved: I'm not going to censor myself over this or anything like it in the future. And you know things like this are going to keep on happening for the rest of my life.

It's yet another hard lesson in what people around me are really made of, but no one gets to tell me how to feel or what to write about any of this.

Comments

Have chainsaw, will travel

[loree.livejournal.com]

It's no loss, honestly. If she's more concerned about the hypothetical motives of someone she doesn't even know than about your own feelings and she flips out and flounces when she's called on it, she's a bad friend and I'm glad she's self-identified as an intolerant ass so I feel no guilt about cutting her out of my life.

I am very sorry to set the torch to gasoline in your space, but I would like to point out that she presumed I was speaking about her (I wasn't, in fact). And that speaks volumes about her own feelings on the subject of friendship vis-a-vis the rights of trans* people, IMO.

Re: Have chainsaw, will travel

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

Having just gone and looked at the post in question - Loree is absolutely right.

Also, my surprised face: gosh, Nibs was quick to defend the neighbor? Never would have guessed.