Up Front: Any Port in a Storm
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Would have had more impact if you'd actually said it was your story. As it is, I'm meant to imagine it's my story am I? Well it's not my story. My mother left my father, and brought me up in a safe loving home (and he was never violent).
Perhaps this pretense is evidence that you're still trying to escape from something.
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WTF, dude?
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Well it's not my story.
the story is written in a way that asks the reader to imagine he or she is the woman in the story. no one said the story is about you. can you imagine? do you have empathy? if yes and yes, then there does not seem to be a problem.
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Hey Morgan, good that you had a good childhood, really good, but I find some of your comment gratuitous and frankly offensive. I don't think for a moment Emma's suggesting all Dads are violent or that all separations are due to violence.
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Paul, where was I offensive?
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WTF, dude?
Yes, that was weird. Not least for the "you're still trying to escape from something" bit. Spectacular failure of understanding.
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Well it's not my story
I think my acknowledgement of that was inherent where I said 'it's not your story'.
Would have had more impact if you'd actually said it was your story.
It's not my story. I am not 'you'.
Perhaps this pretense is evidence that you're still trying to escape from something.
About there? Cause, y'know, what the fuck ever. It didn't work for you, okay. But don't tell me what I'm doing like you know better than I do. It's condescending.
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Brilliant Emma.
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Morgan, I found the speculation about Emma's motivations offensive. It seemed to be an attempt to diminish the significance of the point she was making. Perhaps you didn't mean to, but that's how it came across to me.
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I find it frankly incredible - in the old-school, 'incroyable' way - that Morgan could read Emma's piece and turn it into some kind of gross 'Let Me Judge Your Family' thing. Things are just not computing for me here.
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It's not my story.
It seemed, from other comments and your response to them, like this was your story. Until that, I figured it was a work of fiction, and now it seems that initial feeling was correct. (And this is, I think, why the story didn't really affect me.)
There's really no need to be so hostile.
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It seemed, from other comments and your response to them, like this was your story. Until that, I figured it was a work of fiction, and now it seems that initial feeling was correct.
Dear Lord. Somebody write this man a diagram.
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Morgan, I found the speculation about Emma's motivations offensive. It seemed to be an attempt to diminish the significance of the point she was making. Perhaps you didn't mean to, but that's how it came across to me.
Then I apologise.
My suggestion was only meant to be that if she took ownership of the story (that I mistakenly thought was genuine) then it would have had more impact.
I didn't mean to piss on anyone.
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where was I offensive?
"Perhaps this pretense is evidence that you're still trying to escape from something."
well, that seems pretty offensive, prima facie.
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There's really no need to be so hostile.
did someone call Craig?
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Perhaps this pretense is evidence that you're still trying to escape from something.
I'm not sure Emma is, but your comment suggests to me that you are.
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Then I apologise.
My suggestion was only meant to be that if she took ownership of the story (that I mistakenly thought was genuine) then it would have had more impact.
I didn't mean to piss on anyone.
I did come off that way, good to clarify and apologise.
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I don't think there's anything useful I can say on this topic. But there's something useful I can do, and I'll be donating my $20 right away. Thanks for enabling it, Emma.
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Morgan, you don't half miss nuance sometimes. But thanks for apologising.
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I'd also encourage (after donating) readers to email their local member, and any ministers they think might be influenced. It is tragic that the ability to escape violence is constrained by limited funding, while billions is spent on new motorways and frigates.
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Then I apologise.
My suggestion was only meant to be that if she took ownership of the story (that I mistakenly thought was genuine) then it would have had more impact.
I didn't mean to piss on anyone.
Oh go away with the passive aggression. An apology immediately followed with suggestions about how to do things better. Good one.
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I didn't have much to say about that post, afterward, Emma, because I was speechless with awe. Is that the word I'm searching for? Yes, I think it is. I find your writing just so breathtaking. So engaging. So very right to the heart of it all. Immensely effective way of taking people into a life that many have not lived, and that many still do. That piece, especially, cries out to be read by a much wider audience, I think. It could do a lot of good. And really, my darling, you could do with far more accolades than we are able to offer.
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It's a story that's happening somewhere, though, right now. All the time.
The Women's Refuge Appeal is collecting on the 24th and 25th of July. But you can slip them a twenty via their website right now. It's something you can do, and it's easy.
Hear Hear! Can I just add (without wanting to take away how poignant that piece is all by itself Emma) that it would be great if people can try to imagine this just for a minute every day,and maybe when the ability occurs, donate again.It is deserved,needed and necessary.
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Dear Lord. Somebody write this man a diagram.
Comedy gold!
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Not my story, but close enough. Thank you for representing.
Thanks also for the heads-up about collection week - unfortunately, Refuges came along a bit late for my mother, but she managed to get herself out anyway.
I could do without the "nostalgic" family photo album viewings myself, though.
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