I'm with you on the gradual moving away from LJ. At this point, I'm inclined to establish an IJ, but since my LJ is a free account, I'm not closing it immediately. I rarely post in my own LJ due to time constraints, and only opened the account to begin with in order to join the community at writer-con. I've since used it to follow what's going on with my flist. Many of whom are moving to IJ, all of whom, wherever they are moving, are completely disgusted with the latest nonsense going on here.
But, what's happening here in LJ land is simply a part of a bigger, very disturbing, picture of things going on in our society as a whole. We've set up arbitrary lines to substitute for reasoning. And, anything that falls on this side of the line is evil/bad/disgusting/perversion, even if it's Romeo and Juliet (she was 13, after all) because we aren't making any distinctions, just lumping it all in. But if it's on that side of the line, we really don't care about it, even if it is degrading to women, or gays, or persons of color or...well, anyone, really, because it's met the artificial test of being on the "correct" side of the line.
This sort of blind adherence to an arbitrary rule without bothering to distinguish what is and what is not predatory or anti-social, or truly dangerous behavior---well, blind adherence to arbitrary rules never ends well.
Just remember to add me to the Insane Journal equivalent of your flist when we both get there.
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But, what's happening here in LJ land is simply a part of a bigger, very disturbing, picture of things going on in our society as a whole. We've set up arbitrary lines to substitute for reasoning. And, anything that falls on this side of the line is evil/bad/disgusting/perversion, even if it's Romeo and Juliet (she was 13, after all) because we aren't making any distinctions, just lumping it all in. But if it's on that side of the line, we really don't care about it, even if it is degrading to women, or gays, or persons of color or...well, anyone, really, because it's met the artificial test of being on the "correct" side of the line.
This sort of blind adherence to an arbitrary rule without bothering to distinguish what is and what is not predatory or anti-social, or truly dangerous behavior---well, blind adherence to arbitrary rules never ends well.
Just remember to add me to the Insane Journal equivalent of your flist when we both get there.