Wednesday 12 December 2012

Bitch Form, chapter 2

This post is a response to "Bitch Form" (hence the title) a post on the blog "A Little Splash of Magic", have a link http://ladymegg.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/bitch-form.html I'll get to my response in a minute, before that, some pandering, feel free to skip to the next paragraph. Still here? Good now I promised you pandering, prepare to be sickened. You should check out the whole blog not just the one post, it's a well written little blog by the brilliant and rather beautiful Megan Ruddy (although her upper body is inflatable and deflates when she exhales) Unfortunately her little blog doesn't get anywhere near the views it deserves, so when you're done here read her other posts. I think that covers the pandering front. On with the bitching, from now on I'm assuming you've read Megan's post and will be proceeding as such.
Firstly I agree with the majority of the post, the tendency to bitch in that common room is far too high. There are constant arguments about god knows what, of course whatever it is will quickly be lost among the random insults and arguing. That said however, I feel the need to point out that we don't reside in some form of tribalism, everyone has their preferred people obviously and so like any full society we're split into a few septate groups, 3 by my reckoning, but that, as well as most of the people and actions in there, is perfectly normal.
The group I belong to, comprised mostly of nerds (a combination of art and science nerds), is fairly harmonious in its way. There's no infighting, the only insults are intended and taken as jokes, and as far I'm aware no backstabbing or two-facedness (the only way there could be is if it's directed at me and I don't know). So clearly miss Ruddy's post does not account for everyone in the sixth form.
As for the... polite terms, that are clearly Megan's main focus, well if I'm honest I don't really want to waste words on their internal squabbles, if it isn't causing me a problem they can carry on as long as they like. Put simply, the "intergroup wars" Megan speaks of I don't believe exist, oh I'm fully aware of minor spats between individuals that have been picked at like scabs but "wars" is a massive exaggeration.
I know that something about our year isn't right and there is far more bitching than normal, but it's far from the defining feature of our sixth form, the malcontent's voices are always the loudest, but I assure you, the majority of us are perfectly forward with no childish hidden agenda.

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