oh my GOD, one of my major pet peeves during kerfuffles are the Cryptic Non-Specific Posts Regarding Unspecific Stupid Mean People
I generally get the distinct feeling that you (or at least, the poster's flist) are supposed to know exactly who the poster is angry at, but that they're being coy about it to avoid wank and/or give themselves plausible deniability if someone objects ("Of course, when I said, 'Someone out there on lj is stupid and mean. I won't say who, but you know who you are, stupid mean person!' I didn't mean you.").
My first encounter with it was a classmate in an undergraduate creative writing workshop who turned in a poem for group critique that criticized an unspecified fellow classmate or classmates for not taking the class seriously enough/offering bad critique/being a bitch. I distinctly remember thinking "If you have such a problem with this person, why don't you talk to them about it or mention your concerns to the professor? Instead of, you know, trying to guilt trip the entire class by announcing "I think one of you is so bad in workshop that you deserve to fail, but I won't say which."
the other hilariously horrifying antique insult that TNH called her critics was "draggle-tailed," which means an untidy slut. So she actually covered both the racist *and* the sexist axes, just like mac-stone with her "blog-whoring" and "orcing."
See, "draggle-tailed" just made me snicker (who talks like that outside of an 18th/19th century novel?) though, now that I think about it, in addition to sounding ridiculous, it also sounds dismissive and demeaning.
mac-stone is the origin of the "orcing" term? What is that word even supposed to mean? (I haven't read her original post - it was flocked or deleted or made inacessible somehow before I could). Is it like trolling, but in hordes, with the implication that everyone in said horde is dark-skinned like the Uruk-Hai?*
* which is actually something that bugged me during the LotR movies. Orcs are made from debased and twisted elves, so shouldn't they be pale the way elves are? The Mordor orcs are kind of blue-green, which works pretty well for me, but the Uruk-Hai combine blue-green orcs with men whom I'm assuming are also pale skinned, since everyone in the West is, so why aren't they blue-green? This may be a sign that I put far too much thought into those movies.
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Date: 2009-01-29 02:58 pm (UTC)I generally get the distinct feeling that you (or at least, the poster's flist) are supposed to know exactly who the poster is angry at, but that they're being coy about it to avoid wank and/or give themselves plausible deniability if someone objects ("Of course, when I said, 'Someone out there on lj is stupid and mean. I won't say who, but you know who you are, stupid mean person!' I didn't mean you.").
My first encounter with it was a classmate in an undergraduate creative writing workshop who turned in a poem for group critique that criticized an unspecified fellow classmate or classmates for not taking the class seriously enough/offering bad critique/being a bitch. I distinctly remember thinking "If you have such a problem with this person, why don't you talk to them about it or mention your concerns to the professor? Instead of, you know, trying to guilt trip the entire class by announcing "I think one of you is so bad in workshop that you deserve to fail, but I won't say which."
the other hilariously horrifying antique insult that TNH called her critics was "draggle-tailed," which means an untidy slut. So she actually covered both the racist *and* the sexist axes, just like mac-stone with her "blog-whoring" and "orcing."
See, "draggle-tailed" just made me snicker (who talks like that outside of an 18th/19th century novel?) though, now that I think about it, in addition to sounding ridiculous, it also sounds dismissive and demeaning.
mac-stone is the origin of the "orcing" term? What is that word even supposed to mean? (I haven't read her original post - it was flocked or deleted or made inacessible somehow before I could). Is it like trolling, but in hordes, with the implication that everyone in said horde is dark-skinned like the Uruk-Hai?*
* which is actually something that bugged me during the LotR movies. Orcs are made from debased and twisted elves, so shouldn't they be pale the way elves are? The Mordor orcs are kind of blue-green, which works pretty well for me, but the Uruk-Hai combine blue-green orcs with men whom I'm assuming are also pale skinned, since everyone in the West is, so why aren't they blue-green? This may be a sign that I put far too much thought into those movies.