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Hyperbole! (The New Genocide)
Second Life Insider
Jan 17th 2007 5:58PM *sigh*
On the phone call:
Aimee, you are correct insofar as a phone call is not assault. However, your description of it as merely "a brief phone call" is disingenious and shows a willingness to play fast and loose with the truth where the truth is a little inconvenient -- a trait you seem to share, to some extent, with your rival, Prokofy.
You have a lot of popularity, and you can ride that popularity through misrepresentations like that, but just because you can doesn't mean you should. The fact that your description of the phone call is technically accurate doesn't change the fact that it was also deliberately misleading, effectively brushing aside an act that amounts to stalking as insignificant.
As long as you continue to do such things, I can't in good conscience treat you as any more credible than your would-be arch-enemy. Lying "in support of a greater truth" is still lying, and it doesn't matter to me which person is doing it.
Casualty of War - Torrid Midnight
Second Life Insider
Sep 9th 2006 5:06PM Well gee, Aimee. Let's look at how you started this thing:
"War is Hell.
Fashion war is Hell with catty, bitchy, petty little ankle biters.
SL Fashion War is a venomous surgical strike against somebody with a sensitive and caring disposition timed perfectly with their recovery from major surgery. It's a plan that can go a long way to bolster the grand opening of a business project with calculated results in the 'devastating' category. Take out the enemy, promote the business. Checkmate.
All that's left is the body count, which is the subject of this post. Torrid Midnight is leaving.
For those just receiving word from the front line, there is a war going on by Ambyance2 Anubis, Lost Thereian, and Starley Thereian against Mistress Midnight and Torrid Midnight ..."
Let's see ... so:
1. We have nothing less than a war. Check.
2. It features catty, bitchy, petty little ankle biters. Check.
3. It is a venomous surgical strike against somebody with a sensitive and caring disposition timed perfectly with their recovery from major surgery. Check.
4. It is furthermore a plan that can go a long way to bolster the grand opening of a business project with calculated results in the "devastating" category. Check.
5. The goal here is to take out the enemy, promote the business. Checkmate. ... Check.
6. The body count is Torrid Midnight. Check.
7. This is the result of war going on by Ambyance2 Anubis, Lost Thereian, and Starley Thereian against Mistress Midnight and Torrid Midnight. Check.
From there, we move on into other delightful tidbits, including and especially the comment about wanting Torrid dead.
What did you expect people to think? Hm?
Casualty of War - Torrid Midnight
Second Life Insider
Sep 9th 2006 4:39PM I find this story manipulative, at least in part. It's meant to tug at our heartstrings and make us feel badly for Torrid, and maybe it should -- certainly she did NOT deserve to be wished dead, and I would imagine she didn't deserve a lot of the other attacks she may have endured.
However, I dislike the way this story slyly ties that in with the unrelated and arguably very legitimate complaint these other designers had regarding what she did with their work, implying that they personally endorsed, or may even have been behind, vicious attacks up to and including death threats. It doesn't even have to actually say that, and indeed it doesn't. It just implies it very skillfully.
I'll admit it: it worked on me at first. I found myself bristling with anger, thinking, "Why, that Lost! I'll never buy anything of hers again! Who else was on that list again?!!" That's the beauty of manipulating by appealing to emotions: it works. It works really, really well. And it took a moment before my rational side stepped in, grabbed me by the shoulders, spun me around, and made me slow down and think it through a little more.
Aimee, I'm sorry that your friend left, and I'm doubly sorry that she was attacked so viciously. Whatever else happened here, she didn't deserve that. But let me ask you this: do those other designers deserve to be indirectly accused of making or endorsing those death threats, even if it's only by implication?
