Being Positive Works Better
Every now and then, I get negative comments on my posts. I always try to publish them because I think it's important to allow everyone to voice their opinion. I also think it keeps life, and this blog, a little spicy.
Still, sometimes I get comments that are so negative that I'm tempted to delete them for all eternity. The following is one example. I went back and forth about what to do with it, and for some reason thought, "Heck. Maybe if I do a post about this comment, we can actually get something out of it."
So here it is as a reminder of why being positive is a lot more productive than being negative:
Explain to me how you drive a car or even brush your teeth without plastic ?
You can't even get on a bus or fly an airplane.
I bet for damn sure you've got unconscionable, unfathomable dimensions of plastic in your t.v,, your radio...
Wait a minute, YOU'RE USING A COMPUTER!
Your fake anti corporation, anti plastic b.s. is a direct stem of what is wrong with this country.
You need to find a man, get back in the kitchen and bake some damn pot pies, apple pies, casseroles
AND HAVE A PH*Kn Tupperware party, bitch! lighten up.
Still, sometimes I get comments that are so negative that I'm tempted to delete them for all eternity. The following is one example. I went back and forth about what to do with it, and for some reason thought, "Heck. Maybe if I do a post about this comment, we can actually get something out of it."
So here it is as a reminder of why being positive is a lot more productive than being negative:
Explain to me how you drive a car or even brush your teeth without plastic ?
You can't even get on a bus or fly an airplane.
I bet for damn sure you've got unconscionable, unfathomable dimensions of plastic in your t.v,, your radio...
Wait a minute, YOU'RE USING A COMPUTER!
Your fake anti corporation, anti plastic b.s. is a direct stem of what is wrong with this country.
You need to find a man, get back in the kitchen and bake some damn pot pies, apple pies, casseroles
AND HAVE A PH*Kn Tupperware party, bitch! lighten up.
Comments
Lighten up, indeed. I think someone forgot to take his meds. Or maybe he just needs to lay off the coffee. Egad.
Some people will always find misery and fault in everything other do. It's like a mirror of his faults being held up in front of him, and the only way he can react is with anger.
Nope. No time for that.
Your efforts are inspiring. My boyfriend and I are trying to follow your example. He went and bought some cloth to make his own shopping bags and I am going to have him make me some stylish silk squares so I can do furoshiki for when I am at school and have a bunch of books to carry. I have a group of friends that I have convinced we should try and make some soap to see if we can make it work so we don't have to buy plastic bottles, and I am already looking for other ways to reduce my plastics consumption.
I don't think you are anti-corporate, you are promoting the use of products and practices that are sustainable. You are supporting the businesses and corporations that make products aligned your life style. That is capitalism, pure and simple. I have a MS in Business and Management Consulting. You are currently what some companies are calling an innovator and change agent of green practices. Give it another few years and you will be an opinion leader...hell you already are to me!
I wouldn't hesitate smack a bit of sense into that guy's head. Talk about un-American.
You are a representation of everything that is good and great about the American spirit. You have a can do attitude, you are persevering in the face of an almost impossible system, and you are helping remind me that I am not alone in my quest to be a screaming greenie.
You are my hero!
You've really made me look at all the things in life that I purchase/do that I've thought of a neccessities when, in actual fact they're just choices that I make.
I've started shopping in a more aware way, making conscious decisions about where I buy and what I buy. And maybe I would have ambled down this path eventually by myself but over the past couple of weeks (because of you) I've made big, sustainable changes. And I will keep reading your blog with interest, so thanks:)
Please keep up the positive work! You're an inspiration.
I think that you are doing a wonderful job here. Keep it up!
Anyway, keep on doin' what you're doin'-- a lot of people out here are cheering you on!
here's my conundrum: if it weren't for plastic i wouldn't get child support -- my x works in the plastics industry
i do my best to avoid plastic, if there is a choice of plastic or other type of material, I'll try to go to the other material even if it does cost more
I don't want to bad-mouth the person who commented that, but he/she has no right judging people like that.
If he seriously doesn't agree with what you're doing, he should simply not visit your blog ever again. The fact that he's bothered to bring himself to comment on your blog probably means he wants your attention? Maybe he wants to differentiate himself from the many other loyal followers of this blog.
I hope you won't be discouraged by what's written. Please do continue being passionate about what you're doing because it inspires us all. I myself am a keen follower of your blog. After reading I pay much more attention to what I use and the alternatives I can use in my daily life.
You're a source of motivation. Keep up the good work!
:)
Not so! Look at how cities, states and even countries have now made smoking in public buildings illegal. Look at how the car industries balked at having to put seatbelts and airbags into cars, but which is now standard. Look at how humans didn't even have any synthetic plastics until Bakelite was invented in just the last century!
Now that the health and environmental hazzards of ubiquitous synthetic plastics are becoming known, we can and are starting to do something about it through our opinions and our purchasing power.
*We* make the world that we live in. I'm all for the ideas in your blog! You are an inspiration!
Some people need to get a life. If they are afraid of what they are doing to themselves and the world they shouldn't read your blog and get mad at someone who is trying to make a difference.
Sure, every opinion deserves to be heard. But this is your venue. You decide what content is published here. This is not a public forum. Where This Commenters opinion can be heard, if you don't want to publish them, is on his/her own blog! Several sites let people blog for free, This Commenter can knock themselves out blogging angrily about everything.
Scalzi has some interesting thoughts on the subject.
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/07/25/another-entry-in-the-annals-of-people-who-havent-the-slightest-idea-what-theyre-saying/
http://whatever.scalzi.com/about/site-disclaimer-and-comment-policy/
In conclusion, you go girl. :) Keep on inspiring us and making us think. And surely don't feel bad about flicking some trolls off your back along the way.
Someone who posts like that only wants to bring you down, with no thought of how to have a true discussion.
I love your blog, all the steps you are taking, and how you inspire us all to live better.
Keep it up! You are a real inspiration and needed source of information!
I very much enjoy your site and also realize that one can never make everyone happy, keep up your great work and your positive attitude. I write a general "green" blog and today talked about the plastic problem. I referenced your site as one of two "plastic free" sites I follow and have you listed under my "favorite" blogs. Thanks for all the great information!
Kate
http://katesgreenlist.blogspot.com/
You guys are the best!
LLP, you and people like you (hi Beth!) are so inspiring. I'm glad you're not going to let this jerk get you down.
but that's all his comment is - not thought through, a common example of his own ignorance, and offensive to a degree that makes it not even worth considering.
i think you are doing a wonderful thing, and a wonderful job at it. ;)
I've often had thoughts like Mr. Negative. Sometimes I have "black & white" or "all or nothing" thinking. "What's the use?" I'll tell myself, "Why inconvenience myself when it won't really matter?"
Well, even when discouraged, it does matter. It matters how I feel about myself, for one thing; when I live up to my values I feel better.
Plus, for me, it's easier to understand the importance of making sustainable choices when living in the countryside. In the city, our garbage & recycling was put at the curb every week and it disappeared. We didn't think much about it. Here in the country, we know exactly where it goes: some is recycled and the rest goes to the landfill a few miles away. Any toxins will leech into the groundwater and affect us directly.
Thanks for your blog! Great work!
E.
just wanted to add that I in no way agree with Mr Negative's hostility!! He is totally out of line there. I was just referring to the part about it being impossible to totally avoid plastic. It's true! But it shouldn't stop us from trying to change things.
Anyway, I just wanted to clarify my previous post; I do not support discourtesy or Mr Negative's old-fashioned ideas about women's roles. ugh.
thanks again,
E.
My efforts have all seemed to coincide with a stronger sense of feminism and empowering women's roles in society. I think while some people are becoming more and more environmentally conscious and socially responsible, others are stubbornly resisting change as though we could possibly go on living the same kind of rabidly consumerist, ignorant lifestyle forever. I believe women have an important role to play in the transition to sustainable living, and that we shouldn't let insecure pricks with no foresight hold us back.
I know this because it's saved mine.
So keep on doing what you are doing and create some discomfort by the simple act of being and doing right!
It's all understandable that you find it frustrating. That's what it is. Frustrating. You've been pickd by someone so that their anger and frustration can be poured on you, with no reasonable explanation.
Still, huge huge respects on my (and many others') behalf for your earth-friendly initiative, experimenting and blogging! Keep up!
v, from Hungary
As a newcomer, I only wish to find inspiration throught your articles.
In my mind it translates to: "Waste your life like I did so I don't feel bad about myself!!"
Hey at least he's reading your blog!
Karen Fan
Also--I think a meeting of the sexes is long overdue, where both will be baking that delicious pie. Women have a lot to offer in these troubled times, as do men. It does seem that women are often less recognized than men for their contributions. Publicly, at least.
Thank you for your activism! :)
Thanks,
Karim - Positive thinking