OT: has anyone here seen SISTER SMILE?

I didn't have to read prior posts to be offended by what you said about LGBTQ people.

Of course not, because you're reactionary and look for reasons to be offended. But, like I said, thinking you were more logical than that originally, if you had read the prior posts, you would have seen how utterly rude to me in the first place, and you would've chimed in long before now – to tell those two people to be polite. But you didn't, which makes you just as bad as them or worse, and invalidates any point you want to make about my own rudeness – because yes, it was in self-defense.

And if you don't like what I said about LGBTQ people being jerks, here's an idea---DON'T BE A JERK!

Words have consequences

Exactly! So when I had people telling me that I must have "a screw loose" with that I must be crazy for having an opinion on a movie that they don't agree with, the consequence of those rude words was for me to have an even lower opinion of the LGBTQ community than I already did for my past experiences with them being rude to me. As you said, words have consequences.

lashing out at a whole group of LGBTQ people and lumping them into a category called 'jerks who aren't nice.' Shame on you - would you say that about Black or Jewish people?

,No, shame on you! Shame on you for not defending me when I was just trying to have a polite conversation, shame on you for trying to shame me, shame on you completely!

Would you chastise a black person who has a low opinion of white people based on their past experiences? I don't think so. You would probably apologize and assure that black person that not all white people are like that. That's the same approach you should've taken with me. You should've apologized for the other two's rude behavior, and assured me that not all GLBTQ people are like that. But instead, you decided to join up with them in order to bully me with shaming.

Would you chastise an agnostic for having a low opinion of nuns and priests, if their bad experiences in the past gave them that opinion? No, something tells me you wouldn't.

Would you condemn a liberal who had a low opinion of conservatives and Trump supporters, based on their experiences? No, you probably wouldn't.

Would you come out in defense of Trump supporters, shaming the liberal saying that it's not fair to judge all Trump supporters? No, I can almost guarantee one of your hypocritical ilk most certainly would not.

Yet, you think it's okay to jump to the defense of two people who are essentially bullies, in the name of all GLBTQ people? Don't make me laugh! That's the very definition of hypocrisy right there.

Because someone doesn't agree with your movie tastes doesn't make them paranoid.

What makes you paranoid is not that you don't agree with my movie tastes, but that you claimed that I was "pushing an agenda by posting about certain lesbian films". That's one of the most paranoid statements a person could make on a movie discussion board!!

You've made your suggestions, and that's good for a movie board, but then you've made some awful comments about two posters (now I'm #3) and LGBTQ people that are incendiary, ignorant and hurtful.

Once again, if you cared so much about this board and about kindness, why didn't you chime in sooner, and tell those other two people to stop being rude in the first place? They were the ones that told me I was crazy and had a screw loose, the other poster was the one that told her to ignore me, etc. etc. – all before I ever said the things that you're taking issue with now. You can't do that. You can't just ignore what led up to this and not be called out for your ignorance. It's astonishing!

As I said in the first place, it's too bad that all you people had to take what was supposed to be a friendly discussion and turn it into something else. I am truly sorry that you all chose to conduct yourselves in such a reactionary and rude way.

Please excuse typos/funny wording; I use speech-recognition that doesn't always recognize!

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