Originally Posted by Vanilla

Good for you! Captain Planet saves the day! The only one who's allowed to be a bitch is you right? Got to knock that competition out of the way.

Originally Posted by WhateverDude

Laser beams, psychedelic hats, and for some reason kittens. Surrel reminds me of kittens.

Originally Posted by Hermione

it's a fact that 1 in 4 women will be raped or sexually assaulted in their lifetime

Originally Posted by Fluffy Kittens

sauce pls

Originally Posted by Yac

I'm so normal, it's weird.
Seriously, look around you, how much of what other people consider "normal" you would consider, to put it mildly, retarded ?
Normal people where I live drink lots of alcohol - I don't drink.
Normal people can spend hours arguing over politics - I'd vomit.
Normal people sit in front of their tv's getting brain fuc*ed by idiotic tv - i don't.
Normal people listen to what's on the radio - usually it makes me puke.
Normal people don't question authority - I can't stop doing that.
Normal people hardly ever use their brains for more than basic motor functions and whatnot - I can't turn it off.
Normal people care where they shouldn't and don't care about what they should - I have my priorities completely mixed up, if we use "normal" folks as reference.

I don't consider myself normal, in fact to me being "normal" is an insult. And it's not about how you look - I don't have any piercings, tattoos and whatnot. I know quite a few people that have piercings in weirdest places, ink all over, and all that so they can look "unique" when at the same time, they think and judge just like the "normal" folks do.
I've found that often the most interesting people look and act really plain, but they have their own opinions and their own goals, they don't follow the herd.
I've been called weird because I couldn't care less about some bs story floating around that doesn't concern me at all. I've been called weird because I can detach emotionally - in 9/10 cases of whatever, unless I'm personally involved in this, I can see the points of both sides and remain neutral.
I've gotten weird stares when people don't catch my sarcasm, in fact I had to limit it.
I've been called weird because I have friends from various different subcultures.
I've been called weird by rock fans because I listen to hip hop, and called weird by hip hop fans because I listen to rock.
I've been called weird because I'm a pacifist (due to traumatic personal events, really) that's utterly fascinated by military equipment, tactics and history.
I've been called weird because I hate double standards and can't stop myself from mocking those that use them.
How's that ? I could go on if you'd like (I know you wouldn't, don't worry - i won't :P).
Yac.

Originally Posted by Blarobbarg

I will not claim to be the weirdest person on this site, or in my city, or among my friends... but I will say, when I meet a stranger and then get to know them, they almost always tell me after awhile, "When I first met you I thought you were bizarre/strange/weird/a freak." This isn't exactly conscious, but I have declared a war on normalcy since early teenhood, so there's that.

I listen to outsider music... free jazz, noise, hardcore, black metal, alternative hip hop, ancient blues, ambient- the list goes on. This is not exactly weird around here (it's downright normal, you'd be weirder just listening to classic rock), but around most of America, it's pretty weird.

My mother is a paralegal right wing feministic redneck entrepeneur who homeschools and practices alternative natural medicine. My adopted father is a severely ADD, stoic (but loving) hippie gun nut who grew up in Mexico and makes intricate knives as a hobby. My family makes it a point to "adopt" teenagers whose family sucks and take them in (my younger "brother" is one of these). They're Christians who can't stand church, and consider the social justice and "love everyone" aspects of their faith of utmost importance. They stress working out your problems with others, intercultural communication, and thinking about things logically. I know none of that explains me, but it's where I've come from, and boy has it made me who I am.

I live in Nicaragua as a missionary, taking care of children and serving the oppressed and unloved in whatever way I can. I'll let you come to your own conclusions about that, but it's definitely not normal.

I love to read. That's not REALLY weird, but honestly, among all of the illiterates in Kentucky, I feel like I stand out.

I am a severe GOOD coffee addict. I mean, I cringe when I see pictures on Tumblr of "Starbucks + Anything Else" and it's tagged "coffee." That's not coffee, that's a hot or frozen beverage made out of high fructose corn syrup and the leftover coffee beans from a plantation, burnt and pressed and covered in whipped cream. Don't get me wrong, in a tight spot and in need of caffeine, I will certainly buy a Grande Mochaccinno Latte Frappe or some other similarly bullcrap drink, but I will hate myself for doing so.

There's more, but I'm sick of typing, so there you go.

Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

I think most of you people are mistaking the human nature of individual thought and behavior for weirdness, as though it's some sort of deviation from the broader scope of humankind as a whole, when in reality there are likely to be clusters of all types and behaviors that muddy this black and white line we create in order to separate ourselves from others because we're so incapable of empathy and broader perspective that the only options our little brains present to us are comprised of "what I observe, therefore, totality".

I think the majority of what we personally think we know about ourselves and others is just about as relevant and substantive as our egos will allow it to be. I don't think it goes further than that. And I guess that if I thought all you folks who walk around thinking you're weird are actually just starved for some sort of personal validation and meaning for your thoughts and behavior to create some arbitrary, meaningless position for yourself in the hierarchy of human interaction, then I guess, ultimately, I'm no better than you are.

Welcome to our own pool of shit. We all swim in it. The only difference is most of think it's fucking candy bars and chocolate milk.

Originally Posted by Hermione

Vanilla, your initial post is really troublesome and problematic. I'm sure you're going to try to call me catty and bitchy, and write me off as "one of those haters" but I honestly don't care and if you want to group me in with ~those other girls~ then by all means feel free to do so because being grouped in with women is not an insult to me. Demonising feminity and feminine things does not make you better than us and that is clearly what you are asserting and no matter how much you deride what ~other girls do, you will never gain male privilege nor will you ever truly be comfortable with yourself if you have to constantly make threads like this talking about how special you are, and there are endless examples of this and it is seriously nauseating and sad to witness. I especially do not hope you consider yourself to be a feminist in any sense of the word, because not only are you clueless on intersectionality and it's necessities in dismantling the harm that patriarchy does to us women (yes, no matter how much you try to say other wise, you are one of us), you also attack other women for daring to assert their sexualities in the same manner you do, the difference between us doing it and you doing it, is your sexuality is for everyone else but you and you hate us for making our sexualities our own weapons. So if that makes me normal to you, I don't care.

And in closing, be mindful
Be mindful of what Ariel Levy says on internalised misogyny

"Attacking femaleness, deriding ‘girly’ stuff, rolling your eyes at ‘women’s issues’, declaring yourself a ‘tomboy’ who gets along better with men because women are silly or pretty or whatever – these are expressions of internalized sexism. If that’s the way you feel about your own sex, you’ll be doomed to feel inferior no matter what you achieve in life.”

Also I can't wait till your sad little minions and all the other drones on here get hard on's at the prospect of being able to perpetuate their quaint little trope that Hermione is a dramatic bitch omg!!"

Originally Posted by Hermione

You just did exactly what I said you'd do. I don't give a fuck about making people dislike you because other people can do whatever the bloody hell they want, but I felt compelled to finally call you out on your bullshit because you're either don't know or don't care the things you mindlessly spout out at every opportunity are harmful to other people on this message board and frankly I am sick of it, as it doesn't affect just me. I am confused as to whether or not you don't realise that you're trying to assert your imagined superiority over people who are true to themselves and the things they like without looking over the shoulder to see if they're being judged or not or know enough that it bears no actual reflection on who they are as people, but on countless occasions you have blatantly said that you take pride in your cattiness and damaging attitudes and I am deeply and truly disgusted to see this taking place, and keeping my silence on it any longer conflicts with my own personal morality.

I'm sure you'd like to think that we are ganging up on you and that Stephenie and Amandria are ganging up on you, with me as their "ringleader" since everyone has been creaming themselves over the idea that Amandria mindlessly follows everything I say and I make her agree with me publicly for fucking ever, but this is simply untrue. Why are you so riled over the idea that people other than me don't worship you? True, they are my friends but we are grown women and we can think for ourselves and handle disagreements without resorting to personal attacks. We also do not feel it's necessary to bring each other down because we are so insecure that we have to hurt people to make ourselves look superior. We know we are bad ass boss bitches without competing with one another, or any other girl on the boards as you are so wont to do yourself.

Speaking of which

Here's some concrete evidence of your misogynistic bullshit. I hear this was right after her story was revealed, minutes afterwards. My question to you, is why was this even ****ing necessary? Are you so desperate to claim the title ~Queen of MB~ that you will kick someone who clearly hates themselves as much as you do, because you get off on the fact that at least YOU don't stoop to pretending someone to be someone else on the internet? Classy as ever. Why are you even a mod, btw?

Wolfie said you weren't outward malicious, but it is clear that you really are, towards everyone, including myself. Remember how you had to talk about omg, you could be such a good cam girl cause you're so much better than that girl! But you'd never do something like that because you respect yourself~~~~
Oh, and I don't darling? Again, something like my JOB has no bearing on my morality. Hey sweetie? Did you know I made 1800 in a whole day? Do you know I was homeless and the only way I could pay my bills was to become a dominatrix because the graphic design jobs weren't coming in fast enough? Do you know that I left my abusive ex boyfriend because my slutty slutty whore job empowered me and made me believe that I deserve great things? No? Well now you do. I don't have to make constant, endless motherfucking threads telling my life story because I need validation. It's so funny that you will shit on sex workers for using their sexuality in anyway they please but you are almost incapable about making posts about how you want to fuck so and so on here. Honestly I wouldn't care if you weren't hypocritical about it, but you are and it is so transparent you are clueless about actual sexual activity and see it merely as a tool to gain attention from men because ~women are all catty stupid bitches~. I mean, you even pretended you were sooo above clitoral stimulation and have 30 minute long orgasms even though if you were as knowledgeable as you pretend to be you'd know that only around 17% percent of women are capable of having orgasms from penetration & it's physically impossible to have an orgasm of longer than around 2 minutes. But silly me! Of course ~you're not like other girls~~~!!!

But you know what? This isn't about you and I. I am not hurt by your attitudes toward your own sex whatsoever but I am not the only female member of this board. I am not the only one who could be affected by your bullshit platitudes of self hate. I'd like to actually call Steph's point about how you use flippantly use the word rape as an adjective to describe things that aren't rape is even more likely to affect the women of this board (and maybe even some of the men), since it's a fact that 1 in 4 women will be raped or sexually assaulted in their lifetime. By those odds, I am not the only rape victim on this board. Since you like to purport yourself to be an expert on ~women's issues~, you should know this already, right? Not only that, but what about the girls on here who do like girly things? You constantly put them down and don't even care. Fuck that. But be cute and suggest that omg what a loser~~~ I am for caring about THINGS on the INTERNET as if omg they totally have no bearing on how REAL LIFE HUMAN BEINGS FEEL ABOUT THEMSELVES !!!

Originally Posted by Hermione

You keep acting like it's a big deal that I'm upset, like I lost because of it. Lmfao. If I'm so clueless, how come your actions show that I'm right? You can cry about it as much you want, but I'm totally right. You've even admitted that the way you used rape flippantly was a problem and totally said you were working on bettering yourself "UNLIKE SOME PEOPLE". Oh wow! Big girl! This clearly shows that you aren't actually doing that. Grow the fuck up. You are 26 years old yet still act like a hyperinsecure 16 year old girl. Even worse, you're a fucking mod. You SERIOUSLY should not be in a position of authority EVER.

Assumptions tho? Except I cited my sources? I just shat on your whole life in MLA format basically.

Originally Posted by P A N

hermione. you and i pretty much can't stand each other. nonetheless, mad respect lady. i'm not picking sides or anything. this is none of my business. but that delivery was... something i simply didn't know you were capable of.