So this is a real conglomeration of crap about communities that have been distracting me from school today...
Removed myself from
sex_and_race this morning, thanks to this post; my own foot-in-mouth comments and comments other people left there. I don't feel comfortable making other people uncomfortable* in their own space, and I don't really believe I belong there in any way. The last thing being when the mod left this comment, which seems to imply that she doesn't totally see the community as a safe space anymore, so eh...I'm gone. Had slightly angsty morning over that, but I'm so over it. Wish 'em well there.
*I'm am not saying I'm making community members uncomfortable all by wee self, by the way. Just that I felt I was contributing. So.
This comment in
ap_racism is driving me up the goddamn wall, because the sugar/ADHD connection is very weak at best, and most likely crap and a total myth. But I already decided that I am not applying to join that community for the time being, and I'm not breaking my rule because I want to comment on something that is actually quite OT, and not that important anyway. BA-REATHE!
anti_porn is also driving me batshit again. Big surprise! This post and comments are so "WTF?!"
( Choice bits here )
For all the aggravation though (and I'm really referring to
anti_porn here), I'm finding that I feel like I'd rather spend my time talking and reading on lj than I would doing stuff for class. It feels like a better use of my time.
Which is really kind of disturbing, because you know...lj's free.
P.S. I don't know if anyone knows it, but my spelling's really not that great. It used to be a lot worse, but since I spend so much time writing - and besides lj, I write A LOT - I think I've mostly memorized/automated the acceptable spelling of about 60% of my vocabulary now. (Really rough guess.) But I still spellcheck every post and comment, and use dictionary.com a lot.
Thank god dictionary.com recognized "anyrysm" as an attempt at "aneurysm," or I might still be googling through medical sites trying to find it.
Removed myself from
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*I'm am not saying I'm making community members uncomfortable all by wee self, by the way. Just that I felt I was contributing. So.
This comment in
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( Choice bits here )
For all the aggravation though (and I'm really referring to
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
Which is really kind of disturbing, because you know...lj's free.
P.S. I don't know if anyone knows it, but my spelling's really not that great. It used to be a lot worse, but since I spend so much time writing - and besides lj, I write A LOT - I think I've mostly memorized/automated the acceptable spelling of about 60% of my vocabulary now. (Really rough guess.) But I still spellcheck every post and comment, and use dictionary.com a lot.
Thank god dictionary.com recognized "anyrysm" as an attempt at "aneurysm," or I might still be googling through medical sites trying to find it.