@Sticks48

I'm a liberal, too.

So far, I blocked 46 angry male Trumpsters and and 4 mean women.

They all personally attacked me. Report and block.

@LiterateHiker I don't believe I have ever seen a post or reply of yours that should piss anyone off. I did not get the whole editing thing. It would probably behoove me to edit my comments more than I do.

I've yet to block anyone yay me!

@Vintenar Cuts way down on the number of alerts on a daily basis and I know I have no interest in what these folks have to say. It is a wonderful feature.

@Sticks48

Thank you.

She lashed out at me for joking that I will turn into a bag lady with grizzled white hair and eyebrows, flabby body, moustache and wrinkles if I don't do maintenance, hair color, exercise, sunscreen and moisturizer.

"Might as well turn into a mini-Sasquatch and disappear into the mountains," I quipped.

"Are you calling me a bag lady?" she asked defensively, and launched into a nasty, attacking tirade.

Actually, it fit her to a T.

@Sticks48 The only problem I had with too many alerts is when I subscribed to the Trump bashing group. I forget the name of it now, but I was getting so many it clogged my alerts. I had to scroll five pages just to delete them all. No Trump fan here, but I didn't want to spend that much time on Trump bashing jokes and all the crazy amount of alerts it was creating. I see how maybe getting rid of some of the unnecessary or aggravating commenters could be helpful in that regard.

@Vintenar

I had the same problem.

@LiterateHiker It is obvious you care about the way you look and I commend you for it. If someone doesn't care about the way they look, why would I look? It is that old "first impression thing". Don't you stop girl.

@Sticks48

Thank you, darlin'. I appreciate your kind words.

@Matias I blocked very few people the first year or so I was on here, but nowadays I am on here about every day, so I'm making up for lost time,lol...You've been on here about the same amount of time as me and need to pick up the pace, lol....

@Matias Yikes. I'm up to 84. To me it's just tailoring the site towards the more interesting and informed. Those who multi-post links or videos with no personal content, abusive people, or people who just want to argue indefinitely, I do not have to suffer.

@Gareth I tip my figurative hat to you sir, you are indeed a super-blocker. I need to get busier, lol....

@TomMcGiverin

Thank you, Tom! I appreciate you.

Nice!

@LenHazell53

Thanks. I looked at her profile. She and I joined Agnostic.com around the same time.

She has no followers and zero fans. That tells you something. In contrast, I have 160 followers and 1,743 fans. Case closed.

Wait, wait - you mean there's an actual point at which one turns from being illiterate into literate with no degrees between? How will I know if I've reached it?

@Gareth you won't be able to read this post.

@LenHazell53 Unfortunately I can

@Ms_McSteven Well, I'm not here for dating so my perspective is completely different in that respect.

@Ms_McSteven That's true. I tend not to associate with women like that.
Assholes exist in all genders.
Which makes solidarity next to impossible to attain.

@Ms_McSteven There are people in this world who do stupid shit as easily as they breathe.

Candace Bushnell, the writer responsible for "Sex and the City", is one of those hypocritical women who preaches female solidarity, yet will thrown another woman right under the bus when it suits her.

One of my best friends was seriously involved with an actor who was working on one of her tv productions.
She attended the series premiere event with him, and told him (within earshot of my friend) that he "could do so much better" than my friend. Later, she was in the ladies' room, in a stall, and overheard Bushnell tell an actress in the cast the same thing.
When my friend exited the stall and looked right at her, CB refused to make eye contact and rushed out of the restroom. The woman she was talking to apologized to my friend, even though she hadn't said anything derogatory about her at all. She just knew how hurtful it was for anyone to hear someone else saying such horrible things about you.

Women are no better, and often worse, about supporting one another.

Agreed. Change the syntax but not the semantics because it's what you're trying to express.

@thinktwice

She has a rectangular, black tattoo on her lower lip. User name: Annaleda.

@LiterateHiker ha ha guess there are more than one...no contact with that one...lol

@bigpawbullets

Thank you. Glad you enjoy my writing.

I usually use Grammarly plugin and Grammarly keyboard for my phone to help me fix my typo's, but for some weird reason, it doesn't always work on this site. It actually wasn't working till just now. I had to previously right click whenever a little scribbly line shows up under a word then select the proper spelling, but it didn't work as well. Sometimes though Grammarly messes up and I don't realize it and that makes things worse.

@Vintenar i get a squiggly line here even without grammarly; there is one under your name lol and anything with an apostrophe even if it's correct, but if i type a real word and it's the wrong real word -- nada. nada isn't a word according to this either. so i have to use my editorial skills, and they sometimes go dormant when i should be dormant myself. if this were a formal bit of writing i'd be more conscientious, and i do try to fix errors even here if i find them, but i'm not as worried (as is evident by my eschewing initial caps) in informal writing. however, i do not go so far as trying to use chat speak in here! ewwww!

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@genessa I figured out the difference from Grammarly works to when it doesn't. It seems it only works in replies but does not work in replies to post. I made a support request to Grammarly, and request to Slimjet for fixing this issue.

@Vintenar oh boy it sounds like a hassle! i am glad i am an ex-magazine editor and -english teacher. it doesn't give me superpowers but it definitely renders editing/proofing for myself easier than it might be for some others, even considering my poor eyesight and perpetual exhaustion as a counterbalance.

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@genessa I had some help with the problem from a smart user on this site, who most likely had already had the issue. Tech support for Grammarly was of no use to me fixing the issue. The issue was me having turned on the "fancy text editor" in the options on this site. That option is currently in the off state.

@Vintenar i used to volunteer for aol, well before the law decided that aol, as a profit-making entity, did not have the right to make people work for free. the section of aol for which i volunteered was, like most or all such sections, an independent contractor. it was for a time plagued by hackers who would go into the leaders' profiles and brag on them that they'd "owned" said leaders. i was the only leader who never got hacked, but sometimes i went to look at the profiles of the others, and i would see this bragging line. the owners of the profiles never saw the bragging. why? because i am a compulsive tweaker and customizer, and upon acquiring a new computer the first thing i do is change the background and text colors (and everything else). the hackers knew almost no one does this and thus bragged in white type -- white on white being invisible. it showed up quite plainly to me, of course. i told the other leaders about it and they were astonished. i told them how to check it for themselves: select all on their profiles, copy it up and paste it into windows write. then change the font color or the background color and presto hacko, the bragging lines would show up. they said i should report this to tech support, so i called tech support on the phone and was trying to describe the problem. when i got to the "copy and paste" part the aol tech stopped me. "how do you copy and paste?" he asked. it's not just grammarly, m'dear. tech support just universally sucks!

and furthermore, while i'm ranting along, i will tell you why (i think) tech support, like so much else, universally sucks: the O word. what's the O word, you ask? OVERQUALIFIED! no one will hire you if you have a brain. they will tell you you're overqualified. they're afraid you'll get bored and leave, they're afraid you'll get motivated and take over the company, they're afraid you'll think they're dumb. well, they ARE dumb. my late best friend, who was an actors' manager, told me that once a studio exec complained to him that he just couldn't get good help. every administrative assistant he hired turned out to be a dud. how in the world could he get a good one? my friend said, let me hire your next administrative assistant, the studio exec said okay, and my friend followed through. the exec came to him raving: she's wonderful! i can't get over it -- how the hell did you DO that? my friend said, well, i just hired the best person who applied for the job. (now why didn't the exec think of that? lol!) obviously, tech support for most entities operates as that studio exec had been operating: don't hire anyone who's too good because that person is overqualified. dumb!

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@genessa I don't recall having purchased AOL internet, but I do recall seeing the $10 internet cd roms being sold in every store. I did use AIM messenger for a time though, back when those were popular.

I had a credit card hacked once. I found out when the FBI Called me telling me that they stopped the $280 some dollar purchase in Florida from leaving the country. The store realized the purchaser had the wrong credit card user information.

I think my email may have been hacked possible before.

@Marionville

On several of my posts, she belittled me, maligning my character. Personal attacks are against Agnostic.com guidelines.

Disagreement is fine. We need to be kind.

7 Reasons Women Need To Support Each Other

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@LiterateHiker I don’t disagree with you blocking her...that is your prerogative. She seems a thoroughly obnoxious type...you must take any steps you feel you need to. I also agree in general with women looking out for each other, and in my personal and professional life I have always done so. Without the support of my network of female friends I would have found it difficult to face the reality of losing my son earlier this year, they have sustained me through those dark days. What I don’t subscribe to is just supporting a post here on Agnostics purely because the poster is a woman. One can disagree with the content of a post, regardless of the gender of the poster, but always in a civilised manner. If someone cannot disagree, or put a contrary view in a civil and non-confrontational manner, then male or female, I cut them off completely. I do find it’s usually men who are rude, although I too have run across one or two women. Generally I just ignore them and their posts and that seems to work for me.

@oldFloyd

Thank you so much!

@LiterateHiker you are very welcome