Originally Posted by
Mercury
No offense taken. Recently, Spideyfan came into our thread to defend the Avengers and we had an invigorating debate and a good time. Not once did any of us feel the need to insult him or belittle him (talk about "special") - admittedly, I did playfully tell him to "zip it" but apologized when I realized it was taken seriously - and he stuck around to chat about other things. I've been extremely polite in this thread and not as snarky and cutting as I can be mostly because I actually like Storm as a character.
I felt the need to continue debating in this thread days ago not so much to continue pitting Jean against Storm, like some in here seem hellbent on doing, but because butterflykyss was saying and insinuating things about Jean that simply were not true, based on her recorded, i.e., written and drawn, history, such as that Jean is a racist, or harboring racist feelings, because of picturing Storm as her slave during the Dark Phoenix Saga, completely ignoring the fact that she was psychically violated and manipulated, having images, thoughts, feelings, and even memories implanted into her psyche by Mastermind and Emma Frost. My reply was deleted, which I thought was unfair, but I stopped replying.
However, I did make a mistake by replying in this thread again. I only did so because I've been visiting this thread, again, because I actually like Storm. She's one of my favorite characters. Sadly, it seems I just need to stay away from this thread. Oh, and the "talking smack about Storm" was started intentionally by me as bait. It worked, too. Usually, none of us on Jean's thread badmouths other characters - at least not since I've been a member - or, worse yet, reduce ourselves to personally insulting the fans of other characters, which, as I implied above, is a certain kind of special. It's pretty sad really.