I've been thinking about 5M's Elphin posting now and then since she posted it the other morning. It bugs me.Ex Maleficio asked: "Why does she seem to have such a need to malign people?"
And the Elphin posting begs that question more than most of her postings have. Much of her criticism of the supers are cheap shots on the way they look, dress and celebrate holidays.
If these people are not as bad as 5M makes them out to be, I feel badly for them. If they are as bad, I feel badly for 5M that she has given them ammunition to use against her.
5M says she is "a nice girl" and has complained more than once that M didn't compliment her for being a "nice person".
I'm not a big fan of "nice". It has connotations of blandness and accepting situations that one shouldn't have to accept.
But this posting goes beyond "not nice" into "down right nasty".
I used to have a friend, Pixie, who seemed nice when around people, but when you were alone with her, she would share all sorts of uncomplimentary things about these other people. It was entertaining for a while, but then I thought, "what does she say about me when she's with other people?" I'm glad Pixie didn't have a blog and I don't know.
Another thing I wondered was, if Pixie thinks so many negative things about other people, is she thinking that we're all having these sorts of thoughts about her? And I believe she was thinking that. Because she saw malice towards her when I'm sure there was nothing more than thoughtlessness, or even a misplaced effort at being nice.
