Posted by S. Howard on November 26, 2000, at 23:36:24
Das Baby:
Your defense of Hannah is admirable. It was insensitive
of me to mention "the Hannah festivities" and I apologize for that. However, if it makes her, or you, feel better to know that I hurt myself - well, that says more about you than I could ever say.Possibly you did not have a chance to scroll back through the postings for the month...if you had, it would be difficult not to notice that Hannah was a great cause of dissention from her very first appearance. She was offended by a letter that Greg wrote purely in jest; among other things, she objected to the term "ladies" (horrors!). Coral replied with a generous and eloquent letter explaining how this humorous role-playing was a treasured escape from a sometimes painful life; Hannah took offense to this
("I guess I should just be a good little lump...").
Her next 3 or 4 posts went on to protest the verbal abuse of women, and while this is certainly a serious subject, it simply wasn't relevant. However, it never occurred to Hannah that her constant references to abuse and links to websites for abused women were starting to become insulting to the other female PSB members, who were obviously not smart enough to realize that they were being abused.At this point, I attempted to keep things light by posting, "Someone needs a hug!". Hannah took offense at this. Then Shar wrote Hannah "welcoming her to Lumptonia", as she was obviously feeling left out, but this also offended Hannah. Coral wrote another letter, explaining that she was an abuse survivor and anything but the whipped dog that Hannah was making us out to be. Shar went one better and called herself a "raging
feminist". (I am hardly a swooning debutante myself-I was an AD army sergeant for years.)Somehow, Hannah was still offended.Many members were distressed when Greg quit posting to the board, which offended Hannah. Finally Mark picked up the gauntlet and tried to discuss the abuse issue in a civil way, but that also offended Hannah. When Todd commented on Mark's post, Hannah took offense at that too. On November 19th, Coral sent Hannah a (((hug))). Hannah was offended.
By now, we were all getting a little tired of this nonsense...we were explaining and apologizing for nearly every post...finally, BDay told Hannah that she had a "very large brain". That really pissed her off.
She replied that she hated PSB and Dr. Bob was evil (I mean, where did THAT come from?)Further polite posts to Hannah only made her more furious.Every member of PSB went out of their way to get along with Hannah and she resisted almost all attempts to make her feel welcome and wanted. Instead she spent her time here running around like Don Quixote, slashing and stabbing at invisible enemies on all sides.
Enough was enough.
-G
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