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Accusations, Idiots, and Chocolate Milk
I have more personality flaws than you can shake a stick at. I'm cantankerous, I can't let a threat go unanswered, I can't stand bullies, and when the feeble minded decide to attack me, I do not hold back no matter their handicap.
If folks reject reason, they can't learn if you coddle them, so I don't.
So if I offer a critique and someone responds with basically "I won't make changes" then I will always ask them why they are in a poetry workshop environment.
Here's a newsflash people, there is not a single member of this community, hell, there's not a single poet ever who could not benefit from review and critique and if you are going to whine and moan and make childish accusations when this is pointed out to you, tough, shit, and go to hell come to mind.
That covers the accusations, what then about the idiots and chocolate milk?
Children view chocolate milk as "the hard stuff." So If I say: "Switch to regular milk, you can’t handle the chocolate" I'm saying "You are a petulant child and mommy should not have let you have chocolate milk, go play in traffic."
The last part is more implicit than explicit.
But to set the record straight, when I offer critique, I am always doing so with the intent of offering sound advice but I really don't care if any, all, or none of my advice is taken. If my advice spurs a poet to think of something, wonderful. If it's the advice of another member, just as well. The only thing I will ever call people on is a refusal to entertain changing any piece. Again, we all can improve from advice and critique and if you refuse to entertain this notion, you are an idiot.
This is a poetry workshop, not Facebook. If you are looking for people to tell you how wonderful you are, ask your mommy, don't post it here and if you post it here and no one else has commented on it in a week, don't whine if I make some observations because my tolerance for idiots is at a low ebb.
If you'd love me never to comment on your work, too bad. You post, I reserve the right to comment. You want to reduce the chances of me commenting on your work? Rush to add a comment of your own because most of my commentary, outside the mentor-ship relationships I maintain, is centered towards the lonely poems available via this link:
http://www.neopoet.com/n/lonely_view
And finally, if you are going to make accusations against me, learn to spell my name otherwise you just give me one more thing to use to point out you are a moron.
If anyone feels threatened by any of this, have your mommy change your pull-ups.
If folks reject reason, they can't learn if you coddle them, so I don't.
So if I offer a critique and someone responds with basically "I won't make changes" then I will always ask them why they are in a poetry workshop environment.
Here's a newsflash people, there is not a single member of this community, hell, there's not a single poet ever who could not benefit from review and critique and if you are going to whine and moan and make childish accusations when this is pointed out to you, tough, shit, and go to hell come to mind.
That covers the accusations, what then about the idiots and chocolate milk?
Children view chocolate milk as "the hard stuff." So If I say: "Switch to regular milk, you can’t handle the chocolate" I'm saying "You are a petulant child and mommy should not have let you have chocolate milk, go play in traffic."
The last part is more implicit than explicit.
But to set the record straight, when I offer critique, I am always doing so with the intent of offering sound advice but I really don't care if any, all, or none of my advice is taken. If my advice spurs a poet to think of something, wonderful. If it's the advice of another member, just as well. The only thing I will ever call people on is a refusal to entertain changing any piece. Again, we all can improve from advice and critique and if you refuse to entertain this notion, you are an idiot.
This is a poetry workshop, not Facebook. If you are looking for people to tell you how wonderful you are, ask your mommy, don't post it here and if you post it here and no one else has commented on it in a week, don't whine if I make some observations because my tolerance for idiots is at a low ebb.
If you'd love me never to comment on your work, too bad. You post, I reserve the right to comment. You want to reduce the chances of me commenting on your work? Rush to add a comment of your own because most of my commentary, outside the mentor-ship relationships I maintain, is centered towards the lonely poems available via this link:
http://www.neopoet.com/n/lonely_view
And finally, if you are going to make accusations against me, learn to spell my name otherwise you just give me one more thing to use to point out you are a moron.
If anyone feels threatened by any of this, have your mommy change your pull-ups.