Frankly the haters come across as small minded, petty, and jealous.
Because open minded people use the word hater.
*raises an eyebrow* I am curious about this tendency that some people have to make such statements in the course of a discussion.
I'm curious why you don't think that your initial statement was somewhat offensive. It sounds to me that you are referring to anyone who disagrees with you as small-minded, petty and jealous. Perhaps I misunderstand. I hope so.
I'm relatively new here so if this criticism is out-of-line for this site I apologise.
As regards to Rod Rodenberry I've never met him, don't know much about him personally and if he can make some money out of Star Trek I think good on him.
I don't know how people can 'hate' somebody if they don't really know them. They can hate what he represents I suppose.
But I don't because the more people who contribute to the Star Trek legend the better it is IMO
I am going to assume that you are referring to what was actually my second post in this thread rather than my first which was the genesis of the thread itself.
And as you have posted an actual contribution instead of a snide aside I'm perfectly happy to reply.
I have no problem at all with people with opinions differing from mine. In fact one of the reasons why I did not post again in this thread after my initial post was because I wanted to hear people's opinions without deforming them with my own.
However some of the snideness and vitriol that I have come across as regards Rod does not sound like opinion and a great deal more like gleeful character assassination.
One of the best comments in this thread was the person who said that when Rod was onstage at a con talking about projects/products he was involved with/pushing that he came off a bit like a shill. That was a good comment because it was intelligent, and was about behavior instead of simply mindlessly slagging him off or making snide comments about how he must only be in it for the money.
If the person to whom I replied had offered an actual comment disagreeing with me I would have had no problem with what was written. But instead there was an attempt to dismiss what I said with a thinly veiled pseudo critical attack and then to pretend that it was not meant to be offensive by "buying it back" with an emoticon.
Ultimately I stand by my assessment. If you are going to call a person horrible names and impugn their character and then offer no evidence whatsoever to support your assertions then to me you fall into the category of hater and most haters hate because of something being lacking within themselves that they are unwilling or unable to address, and the most common lacks include small mindedness, pettiness and jealousy.
I will say that I think your statement is quite accurate that they don't actually hate Rod Roddennberry but rather what he represents to them. Which makes it all the more sad to me.
Finally in the spirit of openness and honesty I will say that the smaller emotional part of myself is screamingly jealous. I mean here's a college dropout who kind of fell assbackward into a life where he pretty much gets to do anything that interests him instead of being stuck in a hamster wheel job with negative meaning like the majority of us.
However I like to think that I'm mature enough to look at this person objectively and not let such feelings hijack my opinions.
Thank you for your comments.
Live long and prosper.
Peace and long life.
). Yes, I've made my own uniforms and gone to cons when I was younger (I refuse to call it cosplay!) But I'm also far too jaded and cynical to believe that Gene's vision of humanity in the future is nothing more than a pleasant fiction. I have never lived and breathed by his utopian vision and, therefore, not insulted when people take shots at the man and --GASP-- tell stories of a fallible human being who had his ups and downs, just like everyone else.
