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**|so alive|** · 06-01-2007, 04:16 AM

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I understand what you're saying, but you have to realise that when you nickname an Italian woman "Pizza" and call her a bitch, you're going offend people (Italians, for example ), and you're going to drive away the people who like the chemistry between Evie and Matt but don't particularly want to actually ship them together (or even see Jack and Kate together romantically). I've tried going to that thread a couple of times in the last year, but every time I do it just feels incredibly hostile - from calling Dom a hobbit, to saying that Matt and Evie's significant others aren't attractive enough for them, to complaining about posters on other forums, to calling Margherita names etc. Jaters and Skaters get told off for even joking about the other ship, so why should Matt/Evie "shippers" get to bash and give people borderline-racist nicknames?

I've never called her that personally and don't find it very funny and given the fact that I'm Jewish I'm very sensitive to all the racial comments. However, I can't control the posters at the thread nor should I seeing as I'm not a moderator of this board. If someone had a major problem with the comments said, they should've addressed it to the mods who I'm sure would've dropped by, edited and warned us. Since no one ever said a word up until this week, I guess we assumed everyone was seeing it at the same humorous way we were. Guess not. But that's cool, I know that when I get back to posting in this board I'll watch my words.