I enjoy Rochefort who despises Angel with a vengeance but has a sense of humor about it. I tend to be snarky myself.
Rochefort is one of the posters whose posts I can no longer read. What reads to you like a sense of humor comes across to me as complete disrespect and disdain. Laughter at the expense of a character and that character's fans. And no one calls Rochefort on this. I personally can not, because I can't hold down my anger and bile long enough to get out a semi-coherent, civilized response. And seeing everyone else laughing along with him only makes me want to find a safe place where my head can explode.
I can poke fun at Angel right along with the best of them. He's a dork sometimes, he's vain sometimes, he takes himself too seriously some times. And when I'm with fellow Angel fans, we make fun of Angel for these things.
But it feels very different, because we also talk about Angel's heroism, his compassion, his broodiness, his love, his pain. And that balance makes all the difference for me.
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Re: About being a jerk . . .
Date: 2003-10-22 01:35 pm (UTC)Rochefort is one of the posters whose posts I can no longer read. What reads to you like a sense of humor comes across to me as complete disrespect and disdain. Laughter at the expense of a character and that character's fans. And no one calls Rochefort on this. I personally can not, because I can't hold down my anger and bile long enough to get out a semi-coherent, civilized response. And seeing everyone else laughing along with him only makes me want to find a safe place where my head can explode.
I can poke fun at Angel right along with the best of them. He's a dork sometimes, he's vain sometimes, he takes himself too seriously some times. And when I'm with fellow Angel fans, we make fun of Angel for these things.
But it feels very different, because we also talk about Angel's heroism, his compassion, his broodiness, his love, his pain. And that balance makes all the difference for me.