Political

[poliphilo]

wemyss has defriended me- volcanically- over my paedophile posts. It's good stuff. He says I'm "an intellectual dung beetle", "a would be whipper-up of mobs" (both of which may be true) and a homophobe (which is not).

I cast my vote in the election for police commissioner. I wrote "I do not want an elected police commissioner at all". So that's a spoiled ballot. I view this election as a power grab by our discredited political parties.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think you're right. Wemyss has wilfully misread what I wrote for reasons of his own. I can only guess what they might be. I have no idea what sort of person hides behind the cartoonishly blimpish on-line persona.

[wyrmwwd.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

[wyrmwwd.livejournal.com]

I think the post that he is upset about is the one where you appeared to equate bullying behavior with pedophilia and/or homosexuality. Bullying, pedophilia and homosexuality are all completely different things, and even though all things CAN exist within one person, they do not have to. It is quite possible to have a bully that is neither pedophile or homosexual, and this is true of all three.

Having said that, in my opinion, he greatly over reacted. He could have just said what I just said, and continued the conversation.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I was writing about the reality of life in English single sex boarding schools, where- in my days anyway- it was normal for bigger boys to take younger boys as their catamites. I wasn't trying to make any general point about homosexuality or paedophilia, merely suggesting that the public school system provides a kind of training ground for child abusers.