keturah, come on down!

[holzman_tweed]

keturah, welcome to my LiveJournal.

I have deleted your comment from my entry celebrating both same-sex marriages in San Francisco and the marriage of that couple. If you have something intelligent to say, by all means go right ahead, you'll have to content yourself with mocking them in your own journal.

Comments

Fine

[keturah.livejournal.com]

Well, it is a LIVE-journal. In real life, if someone says something inappropriate, those of us in his company do not have the option of deleting that remark.

He has enabled the commenting option, so he should be prepared for someone to spoil the moment.

So yes, he can delete whatever he likes, but I think that it reflects something about his coping skills.

Re: Fine

[uncacreamy.livejournal.com]

No, were we all standing around talking, and you said something we didn't like, we couldn't delete it. But we do have the option of leaving your company. That's what he did when he deleted your comment, he sent you a message that your company was not welcome. He could not erase your comment from his life's experiences, and he's not stupid enough to think he could.

He should not have to cut himself off from people who are not jerks by not enabling comments or making his journal friends only, just so that you don't get to make a comment. It says something good about his coping skills that he does not allow someone like you to shrink him back into that defensive stance. Deleting your post is not about coping badly, it's about making a point, and you well know what that point is. I rather think it says something about your coping skills that you're so wounded by it, and can't let it go.