Judie C. Rall

> This is the second time I've been sent one of these horribly offensive emails

How about just emailing the person back and saying that you find this
email horribly offensive. That beating a child with a rod is much
more offensive than face paint and Harry Potter.


Judie
Catch my Ebay Auctions!
http://www.unhinderedliving.com/ebaypage.html

Julie Solich

I'm feeling a little depressed today. Last night an email from a 'friend' arrived. She thought I might find it worth reading. She had forwarded a Jonathon Lindvall newsletter to me as he had all sorts of ignorant sorry, interesting things to say about the evils of Harry Potter and Yu-Gi-Oh and Tolkien and C.S.Lewis. This was because when we visited last week, I took face paints and Jess wanted specs and a lightening scar.

This is the second time I've been sent one of these horribly offensive emails, the last time it was over spanking because it came up in conversation that we didn't. I got to read about the pleasures of taking your children to the hardware shop so they could choose their own rod. (I'm not kidding!)

Anyway, part of me wants to respond (ruthlessly<g>) but it would then turn into a huge issue and I'm not sure I want to go there.

I feel like I'm covered in stinksap! <g>

I can just see there will be less and less I can share with other mums if I get offensive emails telling me what some stupid man thinks everytime I open my mouth about the fun we are having. Grrr. Especially one who dares to bag Tolkien. <g> He "reflects a lack of recognition of the danger of the appearance of evil." What!!!!!!!!!


Okay, rant over. Going to go make a cup of tea and breathe.

Julie

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Olga

Julie,

Go dig up one of your best unschooling/non-spanking/virtues of
fanatasy character articles and forward it to her. Nothing dramatic
with just a little "I thought you might enjoy this" note. No
confrontation, but if she feels comfortable doing it, why shouldn't
you? Good luck!

Olga :)
--- In [email protected], "Julie Solich"
<mjsolich@i...> wrote:
> I'm feeling a little depressed today. Last night an email from
a 'friend' arrived. She thought I might find it worth reading. She
had forwarded a Jonathon Lindvall newsletter to me as he had all
sorts of ignorant sorry, interesting things to say about the evils
of Harry Potter and Yu-Gi-Oh and Tolkien and C.S.Lewis. This was
because when we visited last week, I took face paints and Jess
wanted specs and a lightening scar.
>
> This is the second time I've been sent one of these horribly
offensive emails, the last time it was over spanking because it came
up in conversation that we didn't. I got to read about the
pleasures of taking your children to the hardware shop so they could
choose their own rod. (I'm not kidding!)
>
> Anyway, part of me wants to respond (ruthlessly<g>) but it would
then turn into a huge issue and I'm not sure I want to go there.
>
> I feel like I'm covered in stinksap! <g>
>
> I can just see there will be less and less I can share with other
mums if I get offensive emails telling me what some stupid man
thinks everytime I open my mouth about the fun we are having. Grrr.
Especially one who dares to bag Tolkien. <g> He "reflects a lack of
recognition of the danger of the appearance of evil." What!!!!!!!!!
>
>
> Okay, rant over. Going to go make a cup of tea and breathe.
>
> Julie
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[email protected]

In a message dated 18/09/2003 19:11:30 Pacific Daylight Time,
mjsolich@... writes:


> I can just see there will be less and less I can share with other mums if I
> get offensive emails telling me what some stupid man thinks everytime I open
> my mouth about the fun we are having. Grrr. Especially one who dares to bag
> Tolkien. <g> He "reflects a lack of recognition of the danger of the
> appearance of evil." What!!!!!!!!!
>



eeeewwwwww!!!!!!!! That would be so discouraging to receive from someone you
thought was a friend. I think evil lies in the hearts of people who tell
others how to live.
Sorry that happened to you Julie.
Nancy in BC


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Michelle~ms65442

Just send her a message back containing an article about the benefits of
those things, or how silly it is to be scared of them. I remember an
article (or website) someone wrote where they actually tried to do the
magic from the HP books and didn’t succeed, thus “proving” parents
didn’t have to worry about their children learning witchcraft from the
books. Send her some articles on positive disciple, or if you want to
be more direct, on the dangers and damage spanking can cause.

I don’t know your situation specifically, and don’t know if I would want
to maintain a close friendship with someone who had such polar opposite
parenting ideas than I did, but doing the above might be a way to
continue the friendship and get the emails to stop. If you’re not
interested in preserving the friendship, I’d probably send her a more
personal note.

When it comes down to it, everyone has en expert in their corner who
will validate whatever parenting choices they’re making. Hopefully
she’s understand that if you sent her some material supporting your
philosophies.

Michelle, SF Bay Area
Mommy to the bright-eyed Rory Daniel, 5.3.02
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Julie Solich [mailto:mjsolich@...]
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 6:57 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [UnschoolingDiscussion] ignorant people

<<I can just see there will be less and less I can share with other mums
if I get offensive emails telling me what some stupid man thinks every
time I open my mouth about the fun we are having. >>