I have a problem with this

or...This is where Lisa decides to take her marbles and go home because she has principles....

I don't think it's cool or fun to try to humiliate people. I don't care how big of a blogger you are or what award you are up for, or any of that. This bothered me. If for some reason it's gone I saved it here....

I'm not going to try to defend this Ridor person's being rude. What I do take issue with is trying to humiliate him by posting what he wrote and his blog address. This "oh let's have a laugh at someone else's expense" bs. I hesitated posting this because the last thing I want to do is help them have a mighty haha but then again, by sitting back and shutting up I'm saying I agree to this happening.

I'm not going to win the Weblog award thing anyway, and if I did? Knowing this is the kind of people that were a part of it? Would I even want it? No, I wouldn't. It's not based on quality anyway once you get past the intial finalist selection and given this? I'm not even sure being selected is a compliment anymore.

Someone's going to say I need to lighten up or I'm taking this too seriously. You damn betcha I am taking this seriously. I've seen discrimination of the deaf first hand, while I can never for a moment understand what Ridor or anyone else has gone thru I know what it's like to watch someone go thru it. It goes even beyond the deafness issue, I don't see the need to try and get your jollies from trying to embarrass or humiliate someone else. Nor do I get this whole mentality where someone does something jerky and everyone piles on. This is more than about some stupid weblog award, this is about saying, ENOUGH!!! Stop treating people like shit. Stop trying to make yourself seem so superior by trying to bring other people down. Oh brother, now there is some silly almost flame war going on between some of the other "bigger blogs". So much for the theory that this whole Weblogs award was supposed to be fun. I guess I have a different interpretation of the word "fun"

Let's seee....dictionary.com...the word "FUN":

A source of enjoyment, amusement, or pleasure.
Enjoyment; amusement: have fun at the beach.
Playful, often noisy, activity.

Well, I guess they must define that as their way to seek enjoyment, amusement, or pleasure.

Of course there is no requirement there has to be a category for deaf bloggers or any other group of bloggers. Wizbang can make their own rules and do whatever they want, including humiliating anyone they chose. But that doesn't mean that I have to participate in it.

I'm a tiny little speck in the ecosystem, so they can make fun of me too, insult me whatever. I'm sure I'm not going to change much or very few would even notice. But? I know and I'm tired of people doing this crap and just walking away from it.