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Originally Posted by abaya
But also, I think another motivation for posting this thread was partly selfish... to give me a reason to not walk away from this place for a while. I don't know if it's my own perception or what, but I feel somehow lonely as a female member of TFP these days. I'm more tired, grouchy, edgy in here... not least because of my real-life stress (which is building to a peak, in the next 6 weeks), but because I just miss having more balanced views around here, a community that I have valued for many years.
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FTW. Remember when I got grouchy and walked away? Grouchy was putting it nicely. I was fucking rabid. And then I had to remind myself that TFP was not my whole life. In the end, what's more important - your sanity, or improving TFP? You can achieve the latter through the former, but the board's not really well suited to make it work the other way around as consistently. I mean, whenever we grow as people in our real lives, the TFP grows. Reverse that sentence and it is not always true. Such is life, right?
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Originally Posted by abaya
As I mentioned above, politics has become a central part of my life during this election season, and I want to share that enthusiasm and engagement with others. And TFP politics is not really cutting it, at least not until the discussion in there changes somehow. So I want to see what can be done to change things up, if anything, or if we should just abandon hope and let it continue to stew in its own juices, or what.
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I think an interesting experiment would be to let this thread go on a few more days as is to see if there are any others who haven't weighed in on the OP and then move it into the Politics forum, attach a challenge statement and see what happens. The challenge could be to simply restate the main themes of the thread as it existed in LL in order to demonstrate who actually understood the points we made.
Or, to put it in male terminology, it could become an exercise in arguing for your opponent's views. That's right, Y-chromosomers, you heard me. I said you're bad at understanding other people's views. What are you going to do about it?
