From:        Zen, databank@nash.mindspring.com

Okay...

Zen has been quiet long enough.  But this is starting to get ridiculous.

Kudos to you for speaking up. :) 

Zen is NOT defending Trish Ledoux.  Zen has never met her - doesn't know
her from Adam. (Warren, or any other Adam, for that matter)  She may be a
saint - she may be Damien's twin sister.  Zen does not much care.

Zen is NOT Attacking Trish either - for precisely those same reasons.
Zen's direct experience with the woman, or the things that she has done, is
extremely limited.  Zen *does* know people that have cause to be angry with
her, but they are not on the ML.

Exactly. I've seen people post vitriolic attacks on her on r.a.a and 
elsewhere, referring to various negative statements she's supposed to 
have written in letters or editorials, and sometimes quoting them. I've 
seen other people follow-up with posts giving the context or words that 
she was responding to, and they look as bad as what she said. I've seen 
some things in her liner notes to the subbed Ranma that bother me, and 
some things in the liner notes that I agree with. Having never met the 
woman, I find impossible to rush to judgement about her.

Of course there are disagreements - you cannot like everybody - and there
are times when a person hurts you to the point where hatred and anger are
more than appropriate - but to so hate a person that you have never met?
Zen just does not understand.

I'm not sure I understand, either. I've seen cases where someone hates an 
action so much that they have to find someone to blame for it... but that 
really doesn't seem to make sense here, does it?

Zen knows that this rant is flame bait.  It is not the intent, but Zen
feels strongly about this - and very much wants to know.

Agreed on both counts.

Zen also apologizes to Richard-san for teasing him about waving lightning
rods... ^_^  Looks like Zen is not so far over his case of Quixote Syndrome
as he once thought.

Uh-huh. Though I think all of us have at least a little bit of Quixote 
Syndrome inside; some of us are just a little more open about letting it 
out. <g>

BTW, do you have any guess yet about which funeral home I should send the 
flowers to?



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