{"id":20975,"date":"2013-11-12T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/11\/12\/if-i-feel-the-need-to-block-someone-i-will-i\/"},"modified":"2013-11-12T20:43:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T20:43:00","slug":"if-i-feel-the-need-to-block-someone-i-will-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/11\/12\/if-i-feel-the-need-to-block-someone-i-will-i\/","title":{"rendered":"If I feel the need to block someone, I will. I come here to enjoy myself as much as you do and if I feel like someone is going to ruin that for me, I will take action. Just like any other rational person would. That&#8217;s on your back if you&#8217;ve got offended. Utterly shun you? No. No one did that. You make it seem as though we banded together and all decided to take action against you, which none of us did."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard not to feel like people banded together when four people block me all at once \u2014 including someone with whom I was playing at the time.<\/p>\n<p>I really appreciate how well you know me, that you can be so certain I wasn\u2019t triggered by your actions. It really makes me feel secure in myself, responsible, mature and grown up \u2014 seriously, you of all people are going to sit there and tell me I wasn\u2019t triggered? I don\u2019t splash that stuff all over tumblr the way some people do, looking for sympathy, but that doesn\u2019t make my reaction any less real.<\/p>\n<p>As for polite, I gave that over when I was about your age, because I realised that \u2018polite\u2019 was a pretty word for \u2018don\u2019t feel\u2019, and fuck that shit. I\u2019m not about to sit around and pretend that it didn\u2019t happen, I\u2019m not about to sit around and pretend it didn\u2019t hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Behaviour like that is the reason shitshows like this happen in the first place \u2014 everyone trying to pretend that they don\u2019t get angry, don\u2019t get hurt, don\u2019t care about what is said or done or thought. Screw that. \u2018Can\u2019t we all just get along\u2019 is the biggest crock of shit I\u2019ve ever heard, and that is what you want me to play at.<\/p>\n<p>I will also point out that if I didn\u2019t call you out in public, there was no way at all for me to speak to you, because you. Blocked. Me.<\/p>\n<p>In short: you had the problem with me first, and refused to be mature enough to come to me in private and say, \u201cI don\u2019t agree with you.\u201d Instead, as far as I can tell, you complained in your high school clique and mutually silently agreed that I was no longer to exist, without so much as giving me a chance to explain anything, have a rational discussion, or even apologise, should I have wanted to.<\/p>\n<p>And now I don\u2019t trust you at all, and I\u2019m going to make it so this conversation can\u2019t be erased or misrepresented with no source available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard not to feel like people banded together when four people block me all at once \u2014 including someone with whom I was playing at the time. I really appreciate how well you know me, that you can be so certain I wasn\u2019t triggered by your actions. It really makes me feel secure in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/11\/12\/if-i-feel-the-need-to-block-someone-i-will-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If I feel the need to block someone, I will. I come here to enjoy myself as much as you do and if I feel like someone is going to ruin that for me, I will take action. Just like any other rational person would. That&#8217;s on your back if you&#8217;ve got offended. Utterly shun you? No. No one did that. You make it seem as though we banded together and all decided to take action against you, which none of us did.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20975"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}