<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=176831.msg8774946#msg8774946">Quote from: BlackestKnight on 21-08-2013, 20:08:00</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Oh please, Wicked Vixen had  just joked about raping belatris in the post above mine so I'm not exactly buying this whole death is no joking matter excuse. If anything, this example proves that who's saying what is more powerful than what's actually being said.  People joke about incredibly dark subjects all the time without anyone so much as batting an eyebrow. I'm not pretending to be some stuffy uptight sage who's above making the occasional controversial remark or two, no one should be held to such unrealistic mechanical standards. I'm not faulting anyone simply by acknowledging this.  I'm just pointing out that personal politics(feelings) trumps the objectivism people claim to measure their actions by (fact) or at the very least it influences certain reactions(bias). I wasn't favored because of my persona, the way my comments were perceived didn't help either.  It is what it is.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><strong>1.)</strong>Take notice that she pointed out she was joking and was thus considered as such by the consensus of everyone but the odd variable. Your post was not as obvious as a joke, otherwise this conversation wouldn't be happening here, now would it? The lack of (understood) context of your 'joke' from others is what has degraded the response of 'consequential reaction' as stated. The fault lies personally (my biased opinion) with the manner of joke, but the general fault lies with your chosen execution<br/><br/><strong>2.)</strong>I will agree to the fact of the manner of dark subjects being spoken of regularly without a lash being batted, but from my (the biased opinion again) standpoint, these are usually generic and not directed to someone, which yours clearly was. You are telling people (suggestively or literally) to kill themselves for the use of a term you (your opinion) considered childish. You may not pretend to be an uptight sage, and I'm not going to ask you to be held to such expectations because I know better. However, my original point still remains which you've all but white-washed due to the victimization you've portrayed. The type of response (which has been taken this route, thus only justifies my concern) causes the result you see here due to what I've said in Point 1 of this post.<br/><br/>