[scarecrow]

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Originally Posted by K Dubious

I couldn't agree more, also I want to say I was throwing that piece into the discussion, not trying to point fingers at any of the previous posts.

I am a firm believer that only YOU can control YOUR happiness, my post was simply pointing out that some people choose to live life from a negative point of view and I will never fully understand that.

I am one of the nicest and accepting people I have ever met, lol. I also like to be open minded and truly hear the other side of every story. I am an educated person, but I never try to be right! I try to understand where someone is coming from and see if their opinion makes more sense than my own. What infuriates me is the lack of respect from the more often offended. In almost every battle I feel like the offened only wants change there is no middle ground, "make this go away as there is no other solution" is not a solution.

Can you see how condescending it is to generalize issues like social reform as people trying to just "make things go away"? Because I think there have been plenty of meaningful points made in favor of something like "slave Leia being retired from toys".

And for anyone trying to act like it's a mountain being made out of a mole hill, the people who frontpaged this are not dumb. They knew what sort of debate would come up in the thread. The people who are up in arms know that it's part of something bigger, and they don't like that elephant in the room.

I don't know these shadow forces whose entire operation is to erase certain facts from existence. Mainly because I don't take people who use movements I believe in as tools for their own insecurities seriously. I truly believe that a movement like feminism, at its base, is more important than the ramblings of a few zealots.

It's up to everyone to figure out what is zealotry and what is not, because that's what you're describing K dub. I personally don't believe for one minute that the cash machines at Disney made a decision like retiring Slave Leia because they are zealots. Maybe they decided that the outfit was not worth alienating a certain costumer base. That's good business sense. But zealotry? I doubt it.