jennycat55@hotmail.com wrote:

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Everyone on Freedom City is by definition a slasher, but on this lyst there are people who are not. It's those people that are my concern, the ones you are after. It's petty, it's small minded, but I suppose it's power of some kind.

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Actually no - I'm not a slasher, but I am a member of Freedom City. If I see something on that list that I don't want to read, I don't read it. Apart from a few misdirected email's that weren't meant for the list, I don't recall having come across any posts that attacked individuals viewpoints the way I've seen them attacked here - such behaviour is not tolerated by the list's administrator. What I have enjoyed on that list is reading the many different opinions of people on several aspects of B7 that I might not otherwise have had an opportunity to listen to or discuss (I am mostly an active lurker). I suggest that you try being a member of that list before you knock it.

There are several issues that I agree with you and Fiona/Shane/Whoever on, most of which I have debated offlist at some time or another with several of my B7 friends (and that includes my B7 friends who are "slashers") - nobody could accuse me of being less than seriously opinionated on some of these topics! But our debating remains reasonably civilised because we respect the fact that we are all B7 fans.

Despite broadly agreeing with your views on some of the issues you have raised, I do not condone some of the tactics you/Fiona/Shane/Whoever have used in raising these issues and then responding to the view of others on this list without allowing for any proper debate of these important issues. Neither can I condone in any way the actions you/Fiona/Shane/Whoever have taken or incited others to take against Annie's website. It is wrong.

Please don't assume that you speak for all non slash fans, Jenny - you don't speak for me. Please don't presume to tell me whether or not it is "safe" for me to be a member of this or the Freedom City list - that decision is mine to make and I choose to stay on both lists.

===== rita d'orac

"If you think of this mouse as a space captain..."

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