a fight for the soul of poptimism...

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

...has broken out on this thread. Since I am now using 'poptimist' with scare quotes, it may be possible that I am about to publicly 'break' with 'the' 'movement'. :-)

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[zenith.livejournal.com]

In any schism I am with cis and Tim Finney, I think.

It's very telling that people who have clearly completely taken over ILX/ILM still use "ilx" as the word to describe the opinions of the people they want to have a go at, in order to make themselves seem like iconoclasts striking against the consensus - "ilx in liking Paris shockah".

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This has been happening since about 6 months in!

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I am pulling the same trick re: poptimism today. It is an old game.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

yeh i really hate this. would like to ban anyone who writes 'shockah' from now on (even myself).

stevem in 'hating shockah' shockah!

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

(sorry)