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Please please don't go! Your voice is too unique to be lost to this forum! I beg you!

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Now then.

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So much heat generated and I'm not sure anyone got my POINT, which was not that I give a rat's ass what anybody's single opinion is -- hate Charles-on-a-girl all you want. Like I care. I didn't respond here to advocate Charles-on-a-girl and I hope no one thought I did. Everyone here is plenty smart. Think! Dig a little deeper!

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What I get tired of is INTOLERANCE. I am a dedicated member of this board for years now, I am not going anywhere, and I allow myself one rant for every 100,000 intolerant posts I read here. I don't think that's too much. This thread won that lottery, that's all. I could have answered a hundred threads this way just today, and I didn't because, yes, I do think about what I'm posting.

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I was trying to provoke a bit of thought. As in, "Oh, she named her baby for her belovèd late father. Okay. That makes sense. At least her first name isn't John. Now I get it. I guess I can live with that." But NO. Some of y'all can't live with that. You just can't tolerate difference.

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I suppose I'm guilty of hypocrisy too because I'm intolerant of intolerance. It gives me a rash, and I'll only itch in silence for so long before I gripe.

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I was snarky, and I apologize to the board in general for being so. But I do not apologize for saying how wearisome it is to hear negative opinions time and time and time and time again, often from people who don't even bother to post things they do like! It's one thing to say "I like this, I don't like that," but it's egregious to say nothing but "I don't like, I don't like, I don't like, and that over there is stupid too." Jesus Christ that gets old! For clarification's sake, I recognize that mafiosa and brilliantblue etc do post likes as well as dislikes. Other posters never do, though. Again, this thread just happened to be the 100,000th, and since it's turned into a big hot thing I'm responding once more.

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And yes, it does make a difference whether you've actually named your own child. I'm not saying you don't have the right to your opinion, that's specious and silly and I would never say that. What I am saying is if you haven't done it you have no possible appreciation of how incredibly frakkin HARD it is, and you may find your little eyes opening a tad to other people's reasoning processes once you have done it. Nothing more complicated to that than that.

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And just for yet more clarification if anyone still needs some, Charles-on-a-girl and mafiosa specifically have much less to do with my bad feeling today than the overall negativity of so much of the Ops board.

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Now then. Obviously I ruffled quite a few feathers and started an uproar, not that I was trying to. I've been cooking dinner and helping kids with homework, lest anyone think I'm too cowardly to partake of my own mess in a timely fashion. I am finished with my rant now. I can't promise I won't respond further in this thread, but as bedtime for my kids approaches, it's unlikely. I only want to add that I am again PUBLICLY BEGGING TIPPINS NOT TO LEAVE, I do apologize for snarkiness but not my feelings, and tomorrow or two hours from now or whatever I will continue to post here just as I have for years, as I plan to do pretty much forever, frankly as though all this never happened. Till the next 100,000th post.

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I still maintain: BtN forever!